Search fund operators contact 3,000+ companies to close one acquisition. We score every active UK company on exit readiness to surface off-market targets — and the model rated 6 in 10 eventual sellers as likely to sell, before they sold.
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McKinsey estimates $5 trillion in US business value is at risk from failed ownership transitions. We mapped the equivalent problem across 3.6 million UK companies. Read the analysis.
Built on Companies House data. See the full exit statistics.
Scored and ranked target lists, updated from live filings.
Analyst-grade acquisition intelligence — investment thesis, financial benchmarking, approach strategy, and tailored diligence questions for a single target.
We identify when a business is approaching a natural exit window — director age and retirement proximity, succession gaps, capital investment decline, filing disengagement, dividend cessation, board changes — and score how narrow that window is.
Most private companies don’t report revenue. We estimate revenue from ten independent balance sheet signals — including multi-year growth trajectories — cross-checked by a statistical model trained on 157,000 company-years. Validated against 2,973 companies in the search fund target range: median estimate within 24% of actual revenue.
Enterprise value range built from sector multiples applied to normalised EBITDA, adjusted for business quality and earnings volatility. Not a formal valuation — a calibrated starting point.
Revenue per employee, EBITDA margin, and profit per employee measured against the full sector peer set — with visual benchmarks showing exactly where the target sits.
Analyst note with an investment thesis. Recommended channel, timing, opening narrative, and deal structure signal. A draft approach letter tailored to the owner profile.
Operational, financial, and data-confidence risks identified and explained — not just flagged but contextualised with the specific numbers that triggered them.
Full director profiles with age, tenure, and every other active appointment mapped. Network risk and governance bandwidth assessed.
A comparable companies table ranking the target against sector peers on overall score, estimated revenue, margin, headcount, and director age.
These businesses aren’t failing. They’re vanishing because no one made the introduction.
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Nearly a million UK companies have directors approaching retirement. Most buyers will never see them.