Your next platform or capability acquisition sits in an adjacency your team has never formally enumerated. We screen 100M+ classified domains against your written thesis and hand back the complete, evidenced map.
A working definition your investment committee can hold you to.
Two-pass screening of the full web against your written thesis.
Complete universes with quoted evidence for every inclusion and exclusion.
Published pricing, from a €4,900 proof project to annual monitoring.
Banked processes, inbound approaches, and the companies your executives already know cover a thin slice of any adjacency. The rest — usually the majority of it — never surfaces on its own, and never shows up in a database profile either.
The set of operating companies in an adjacency to your core business that your team has not yet enumerated — not a market-size estimate, but a named, evidenced list you can act on.
Leading company databases index the companies they have already found — the funded, the listed, the frequently covered. An adjacency map built from one inherits those blind spots and presents them with confident formatting.
We start from the opposite end: the entire active web, 100M+ classified domains covering 99.99%+ of active internet usage, read against your exact thesis. The map is complete before it is ranked.
Most private industrial and services companies have never raised capital, never issued a press release, and never met a coverage threshold. They exist only as websites.
A fifth or more of confirmed fits never use the category's obvious keywords on their homepage. They describe outcomes, not taxonomy terms.
Adjacency maps built as one-off projects decay quietly. Companies get acquired, pivot, or close — and the deck nobody re-checks keeps circulating.
One industrial category alone resolves to 367,478 domains globally once you begin from the full web. No profile-based database holds that; no keyword search returns it.
Three stages, each auditable. Your thesis stays in plain language throughout — no taxonomy translation, no black box.
We resolve your adjacency to its full global footprint across our 700+ category classification. That number is usually uncomfortable — and it should be, because it is the honest denominator.
Job shops, service firms, integrators — including thousands with no press, no funding history, no directory profile anywhere.
A 25,000-domain US-focused triage of one category resolved to roughly 17,300 live operating companies — the rest were parked, dormant, or duplicates.
The first pass reads every candidate site and answers one question — could this plausibly fit the thesis? The second pass reads the survivors thoroughly and extracts structured fields.
Broad and deliberately forgiving, so companies that describe themselves in unexpected language survive long enough to be read properly.
Fifteen signals per company: ownership language, certifications, service mix, footprint, recurring-offering indicators — each tied to quoted site text.
Where a site is too thin to support extraction, the company is retained in the universe but flagged — never scored on guesswork. The specimen format reserves two of its twenty rows for exactly these cases.
Every company carries three scores — Mandate Fit weighted 70%, Outreach Suitability 20%, Transition Context 10% — and group ownership zeroes a candidate out entirely.
Each inclusion and each exclusion quotes the site text that justified it, with the source page. Disagree with a call? The evidence is one click away.
Roughly one in ten keyword-perfect candidates turns out to be group-owned already. We document those exits instead of quietly dropping them.
From a real mapped category — industrial automation and controls integration, 534 eligible independent US companies — three anonymized rows that show why evidence discipline matters more than list length. Every claim below quotes the company's own site.
Controls integrator, five Indiana locations, recurring service offerings, UL508 compliance. Scored 92.7 with every extraction field populated.
12 of 12 evidence snippets verified against site text.
Robotic palletizing systems, Washington state, recurring service offerings across various industries. Its homepage never says "automation integrator" — a keyword screen would never have surfaced it.
Surfaced by thesis reading, not by matching category vocabulary.
Textbook category language, strong certifications — and one sentence that removed it from the map with the score zeroed.
Logged as a documented exclusion, with the quote, not silently dropped.
A whitespace exercise fails in the room, not in the spreadsheet. The deliverable is designed backwards from the four questions that kill adjacency proposals.
The mechanics are identical; only the thesis changes. These are the four we are asked for most.
Every independent company holding a certification or service capability your roadmap needs but your footprint lacks.
The full population one step up or down your value chain — sized with real counts, not analyst estimates.
Your existing thesis re-run against a region you do not yet operate in, before committing corp dev travel to it.
Service and aftermarket operators around your installed base — often invisible to databases, always visible to the web.
Deliverables arrive as structured files your CRM imports directly — one row per company, signals as columns, evidence quotes attached.
The uncomfortable arithmetic: a fifth or more of confirmed fits in our specimen runs never use the category's obvious keywords on their homepage. A keyword-built whitespace map starts a fifth short — before anyone evaluates a single company.
Published pricing, no discovery-call theatre. Each step stands alone; none obligates the next, and the specimen report is free to request before any of them.
Your adjacency thesis in plain language — one page is enough. We agree the boundary, the geography, and the cuts before anything runs.
One subvertical mapped end-to-end so you can audit the evidence discipline on real output before committing further.
from €4,900The complete adjacency: universe, deep shortlist, exclusion log, CRM-ready files.
from €9,900The thesis re-run on schedule; new entrants, ownership changes and exits reported as deltas your team reviews in minutes.
from €18,000/thesisA corp dev team that discovers a vendor's limits mid-engagement stops trusting the parts that work. Ours are these.
No website signal reveals whether an owner would entertain an approach. Vendors who claim otherwise are guessing; we decline to, and our standards say so in writing.
Revenue, EBITDA and valuation are not visible on company websites, and vendors who derive them from page text are guessing. The map tells you who exists and what they evidence — your diligence prices them.
A company with a two-page site yields thin extraction, and we say so per company via an insufficient-evidence flag rather than padding the record.
Where an adjacency is too new to have a stable web vocabulary, triage recall drops and the honest answer is a narrower claim. We flag this at intake, before you spend anything, and scope the proof project accordingly.
Every company in the map carries all fifteen. These four do the most work in adjacency decisions.
The principal score, weighted 70% of the composite. Your thesis text — not a category code — is what each site is read against, so "fluid-handling services with aftermarket exposure, no OEM captives" screens exactly as written. When strategy revises the thesis, the universe re-screens against the new wording and the old and new runs stay comparable.
Often a disqualifier, and the one keyword lists miss most expensively. "A wholly owned subsidiary of" or an acquisitions page of their own means the company is consolidated already — group ownership zeroes the composite score, the exclusion is logged with its quote, and roughly one in ten keyword-perfect candidates exits the map this way.
Service contracts, maintenance agreements, scheduled programs, consumables language — visible recurring offerings separate a platform-quality operation from a project shop wearing the same category label. We capture the exact claim text ("multi-year service agreements", "chemical service programs", "rental fleets"), never an inferred revenue split.
Named OEM authorizations, distributorships and association memberships show where a company sits in your industry's plumbing — and whether buying it strengthens a channel you already have or creates conflict. Certifications (UL 508A, ASME, ISO/IEC 17025, NADCAP) are captured verbatim with source pages so your operators can verify each claim in minutes.
Send us the thesis your strategy deck already contains. We will return the denominator, the shortlist, and the evidence — and you can hold every row of it to account in front of your board.