Off-market deal sourcing for serious acquirers.

The best lower-middle-market businesses never list. Scout investigates them one at a time against your Brief, establishes how the ownership situation actually looks, and returns a Finding with the evidence behind it.

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Accreditation recordsMapping and location dataReview and reputation dataIndustrial supplier directoriesProfessional networksCompany websitesOwner contact resolutionFederal statistical dataState business registriesTrade and professional licensingCounty assessor and parcel recordsFederal payroll and loan filingsMotor-carrier registrationsFederal facility registriesCanadian business registriesAccreditation recordsMapping and location dataReview and reputation dataIndustrial supplier directoriesProfessional networksCompany websitesOwner contact resolutionFederal statistical dataState business registriesTrade and professional licensingCounty assessor and parcel recordsFederal payroll and loan filingsMotor-carrier registrationsFederal facility registriesCanadian business registries

The best lower-middle-market businesses are off-market and founder-owned. Scout finds them, investigates them, and shows you what it established.

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Write the Brief

Sector, size, geography, and the disqualifiers — the mandate Scout works against every night.

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Scout investigates candidates

Companies measured against your Brief on fit and on how the ownership situation actually looks — visible to you continuously.

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Evidence, then a Finding

Scout verifies the owner contact where the public record allows, assembles the sell-readiness evidence (life trigger, age and tenure, no successor, coasting), and returns a qualified, disqualified, or inconclusive Finding.

The Recent Findings module in a Scout project: three companies, each with a one-sentence finding and its research outcome and reviewer decision.

Why acquirers source with Dealport.

Researched, not just listed

Companies investigated against your Brief — not a CSV of every business in the county.

Motivation, not just data

Scout looks for the succession and timing evidence that makes a conversation worth having.

Your Project stays yours

Findings, evidence, and the reasons behind every decision are workspace-private. Work Scout does for your Project is not shown to another customer.

Plain answers, no jargon.

Finding businesses to acquire before they're listed — directly with owners, not through a broker or marketplace. Most quality lower-middle-market companies never list, so off-market sourcing reaches those owners first.

Bring Scout into how your team does deals.

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