AcquisitionUniverse

Use cases

One engine, twenty jobs

Everything on this page runs on the same machinery: 100M+ classified domains, LLM screening against plain-language criteria, and evidence for every inclusion and every exclusion. What changes is the question you ask it.

20

documented use cases

10

specimen verticals

100%

evidence-backed

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Each use case below is the same full-web screening method pointed at a different decision: sourcing, monitoring, market sizing, channel building, or supplier qualification. Every deliverable carries verbatim evidence and source URLs, and every engagement includes custom ICP re-runs. If your job is not on this list, describe it to us — the method page explains what the engine can and cannot see.

Add-On Acquisition Radar for PE Platforms

Map every company matching a platform's bolt-on thesis from the full classified web, then keep the radar live with monthly deltas.

Thesis Universe Mapping

A complete, evidenced census of every company an investment thesis describes — a denominator you can defend, not a top-N shortlist.

Search Fund & ETA Target Lists

The complete universe for one search box: independent, founder-associated companies with visible decision-makers, at project cost.

Buy-Side Long Lists for M&A Advisors

Mandate long lists built from the entire web, with quoted evidence per inclusion and a documented exclusion log for the client review.

Sell-Side Buyer List Construction

Every credible strategic and financial buyer, screened for capability adjacency and acquisition appetite — with the evidence attached.

Founder-Led Company Screening

Founder and family association extracted from explicit website language, quoted verbatim — never inferred, never profiled.

Succession-Context Screening

Founder-associated, long-established, independently positioned businesses with limited visible leadership bench — website-visible signals only.

Corporate Development Whitespace Monitoring

Map the capability spaces bordering your roadmap and watch their structure quarterly — before a sponsor builds a platform in them.

Market-Entry Mapping

Enter a new geography knowing every player in it: acquisition candidates and partnership candidates from the local web, separately scored.

Channel & Partner Mapping

Every distributor, integrator, and reseller in a category, with authorizations and vendor relationships read from their own partner pages.

Competitor Landscape Monitoring

Baseline the full competitive universe on 15 signals, then read the quarterly diffs: offerings, leadership, footprint, positioning.

CRM & Database Gap Analysis

Run one live thesis through full-web screening and measure exactly what your licensed tools and CRM missed or misclassified.

ICP Discovery

Describe an ideal customer profile in plain language and screen 100M+ classified domains for every company that matches it.

Conference & Trade-Show Target Prioritization

Screen the exhibitor list against your thesis before the event — ranked meeting priorities with evidence cards and already-owned flags.

Independent Sponsor Deal Sourcing

Institutional-grade coverage at project pricing: a complete, evidence-backed universe for the thesis that makes the deal yours.

Family Office Direct-Investment Pipeline

A quiet, standing pipeline of independent, long-established companies matching the family's criteria — researched without outreach.

Supplier & Specialist Discovery

Find every qualified supplier — including the ones no directory lists — with certifications and capabilities quoted from their sites.

TAM Mapping for Industries

Count an industry by census, not extrapolation: every domain in the category triaged, classified, and segmented with evidence.

Portfolio Monitoring & Universe Deltas

Scheduled re-screens of any delivered universe: who entered, who changed hands, who pivoted, who went quiet — as structured data.

Custom Taxonomy Classification

Your own category scheme applied across the web — every assignment carrying quoted evidence and a confidence score.

See what the full universe looks like for your thesis

One email. We send the specimen report the same day — every company scored and ranked with full signal transcripts, including the ones we refused to include.

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