New There's a business nobody's calling. We know who owns it.

The best deal in town is the one nobody's chasing.

We find, vet, and hand off $5M+ acquisition targets in the businesses everyone else scrolls past — pest control, HVAC & electrical, septic services, self-storage, laundromats. Off-market, direct, one mandate at a time.

Currently sourcing: home-services & route-based
Scottsdale · Paris · Abu Dhabi
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What we source

The unglamorous
short list.

Every mandate starts narrow — one sector, one geography, one size band. We only work platforms and roll-ups at $5M+ in transaction value — no single-truck operators. If it has route density, recurring contracts, or a truck fleet at scale, we're already looking at it.

Pest control
3.8× EBITDA
HVAC & plumbing
4.6× EBITDA
Electrical
4.3× EBITDA
Commercial cleaning
3.6× EBITDA
Septic services
3.5× EBITDA
Landscaping
3.4× EBITDA
Highest mult.
Self-storage
5.1× EBITDA
Laundromats
4.2× EBITDA
Painting
3.2× EBITDA
Window cleaning
3.0× EBITDA
Dog waste removal
2.8× EBITDA
The thesis

Attention is the
scarcest asset in M&A.

Almost all of it is pointed at the same forty logos. Everyone's bidding on the same SaaS story, over-advised and picked clean before the first call. The septic company two towns over prints steady cash every month, and nobody's called the owner. We go where the attention isn't.

Buyers in the room
1
Contact style
Direct
Market process
Off-market
Mandates in parallel
1
The network

Someone on the ground,
every time zone.

Click a region to zoom in — origination doesn't sleep, and neither does the pipeline.

United States
Scottsdale — HQ
Los Angeles
Dallas
New York
International
Paris — Europe
Abu Dhabi — Gulf
Saudi Arabia — Gulf
Mumbai — South Asia
How it works

Five steps.
No shortcuts.

One mandate at a time, start to handoff.

01Define the mandate+

We lock the thesis with you — sector, geography, size band, deal structure — before a single call gets made.

02Map the universe+

We build the full target list from licensing boards, trade associations, permit filings, and public records.

03Make first contact+

Direct, discreet outreach to owners — founder to founder, not a call center script.

04Qualify & package+

We confirm financials, owner intent, and deal readiness before it ever reaches your desk.

05Hand off+

A warm introduction, a clean file, and we step back. You take it from there.

Why sourcing usually fails

Everyone's fishing
the same pond.

01

Broker lists get shopped to twenty buyers before you see them.

02

Cold email tools burn the owner's trust before a human ever calls.

03

Generic search criteria return the same tired SaaS and DTC targets.

It's not the deal flow that's missing — it's someone willing to knock on the boring door.

The pitch vs. the ledger

Same numbers.
Different room.

Two ways to compete for the same deal. We only work one of them.

The auction

  • × 100+ buyers on the same broker list
  • × Priced on story, not trailing cash flow
  • × Slow diligence once the process gets crowded
  • × Marketed widely, edge shared by everyone

The mandate

  • One buyer in the room — you
  • Direct owner contact, no bidding war
  • Qualified intent before it reaches your desk
  • Off-market by default — discretion is the product
How we get paid

Flat 3%.
Paid at closing.

No retainer, no upfront engagement fee. 3% at closing, and only if the deal closes.

Success fee
3%
Retainer
$0
Minimum transaction value
$5M+
Paid by
PE firm
Get in touch

Boring is bookable.

Whether you're a PE firm hunting for a mandate, or you own a business and are thinking about selling — tell us where you stand.

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