Dealport Discovery — we run the search for you.
The fully managed tier. Our team runs sourcing and outreach end-to-end and brokers opted-in owner conversations to your calendar — five introductions a month.
We run the search. You take the calls.
A fully managed engagement — bespoke search, two outreach streams, and brokered owner introductions, end to end.
A bespoke search, built to your buy-box
Custom connectors layered on nine source categories — maximum coverage of the universe that matches your thesis.
We run the outreach
Two parallel streams a month — email and live calls — sequenced until we reach the owner.
Brokered introductions
Opted-in owner conversations on your calendar — five a month, minimum.
What managed gets you.
Enhanced enrichment
Deeper owner profiles — tenure, family signals, and motivation captured from live conversations.
Two layers of exclusivity
A 30-day window on every lead, plus ten Active slots held indefinitely.
Weekly reporting
Continuous in the app, plus a PDF every Monday by 1 PM ET.
- 250
- Emails / month
- 250
- Calls / month
- 5
- Brokered intros / month
- 30-day
- Lead exclusivity
There's no perfect list — and in the lower middle market, that's exactly where the opportunity is. Dealport surfaces the information other platforms miss, and comes closer than any database we've used.
I underestimated how much full-time work a real search is. Finding a name on a list is the easy part — qualifying owners, getting in front of them, and learning who's actually open to selling is a job in itself.
Frequently asked questions
A bespoke search engine, not a database with filters. Every target moves through a six-stage pipeline — thesis, discovery, reconcile, enrich, score, outreach — across nine source categories. The engine handles volume; our team handles judgment, and no lead is delivered without a human in the loop.
Two parallel streams each month against the leads you select: up to 250 emails in a manually executed campaign, and 250 live outbound calls. Outreach is sequenced — we attempt the owner every few days once we have verified contact info, typically up to eight attempts.
A brokered introduction: the owner operates a business that fits your buy-box and has opted into a conversation with you. Some are looking to sell now, others are seriously considering it — both count.
Five is a minimum commitment, not a target. If the standard calls don't get there, we run up to 50 additional calls to reach the threshold. We commit to the outreach effort; outcomes ultimately depend on owner responsiveness.
Two layers. Every lead is exclusive to you for 30 days from when it first appears. You can also hold up to ten leads in Active slots indefinitely. Leads you pass on return to the general pool.
Discovery is scoped to sourcing and outreach. Diligence and underwriting support, negotiation and LOI, data room and CIM prep, financing, legal, quality of earnings, and post-close support are available as add-ons, scoped per deal.
Insights
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