A bespoke search, built on signals nobody else connects.
Nine source categories, owner-level signals, scored against your buy-box — the infrastructure Scout operates every night. Discovery adds the human channels on top.
Scout checks every business across these nine sources before it reaches you
The engine, end to end.
Sources, scoring, workspace, outreach, and embedded financing — the machine Scout operates nightly against your buy-box.
Nine source categories, one ranked pipeline.
Public registries, professional licenses, UCC liens, property records, payroll proxies, owner identity, social and life signals, web footprint, and industry context — reconciled and scored against your buy-box.
How sources combineOne workspace, every search, every stage.
Buy-box, sourcing, scoring, outreach, and owner conversations live in one workspace — kanban stages, per-owner history, exclusivity built in. Run multiple buy-boxes side by side.
See the workspaceScout drafts. You approve.
Scout writes outreach in your name — your voice, your thesis, your sending domain. Nothing leaves without your one-click approval. On Dealport Discovery, our team adds the channels an agent can't work — phone and social — plus deeper owner enrichment.
How outreach worksEmbedded financing, on the same engine.
Once a target is real, route it to vetted senior / mezz / equity desks with one structured RFQ. Capital partners pay us, not the borrower — and quotes come back side by side.
How financing routes11M+
Company records Scout starts from — operating history, revenue signals, and owner data — before it hunts net-new.
Six stages. Every search.
Buy-box locked
Sector, geography, structure, revenue band, owner profile — translated into a searchable thesis.
Multi-source scan
Directories, AI search, public records, government filings, social — nine source categories, not one database.
Quality filter
Drop weak fits, franchises, dead listings, and bad data. Every record cross-referenced before it advances.
Owner + signals
Owner identity, revenue band, distress indicators, life events — the qualitative read a filter set can't deliver.
Fit × motivation
Ranked by likelihood to sell — against your buy-box, not a generic lead score.
Owner outreach
Scout drafts; you approve before anything sends. On Dealport Discovery, our team adds phone and social outreach plus deeper enrichment, through to brokered introductions.
Nine source categories.
Public, private, and government sources — plus the proprietary intelligence captured live from owner conversations and fed back into the platform.
Directories & listings
Ratings, reviews, years in business, address and contact verification — reconciled across sources, not trusted from any one.
State license registries
Expiration, status, and named principals across regulated trades and professions.
Secretary of State data
Incorporation date, status, officers, and registered addresses for millions of entities.
Payroll & operating signals
Payroll, employment, and tax signals that confirm operating scale and revenue bands.
UCC, liens, distress
Recent UCC activity, lien status, license revocations — the signals that move an owner from “not selling” to “will take the call.”
County property records
Home market value, years owned, address match — pulled live from county portals.
Owner identity & contact
Owner name, age band, tenure, education, family signals, reachable contact paths.
Social & life events
Recent posts, family transitions, heir status, interests — angles for a relevant first touch.
Agentic discovery & validation
AI search extends beyond traditional databases; multi-gate validation before anything reaches you.
Plain answers, no jargon.
Why nine source categories instead of one big database?
Because a name in one database doesn't tell you anything you don't already know. The motivation to sell shows up across UCC filings, property records, life events, and license signals. We aggregate the categories the off-the-shelf tools don't — and the proprietary intelligence we capture in owner conversations feeds back into the platform.
Is this AI?
Yes — and more than a chatbot. Scout is an agent that runs nightly against your buy-box: it queries 11M+ company records, resolves owner contacts through verified rails, scores motivation against real signals, and queues outreach for your approval. A standalone AI subscription has none of that infrastructure. On Dealport Discovery, a human team adds what can't be automated — phone and social outreach, deeper enrichment, brokered introductions.
How is the search bespoke if you have an engine?
Because Scout runs it for your thesis, not anyone else's. Your buy-box drives every scoring weight, every filter, every outreach angle. Two buyers in the same sector get materially different pipelines because their criteria — and the owner signals they care about — are different.
Is my pipeline data exclusive to my engagement?
Yes. Within an engagement, the targets we surface for your thesis are yours. We don't recycle owner conversations across buyers, and we don't relist the same business for someone else's mandate.
What does an integration look like?
Most teams work directly inside our workspace — thesis, pipeline, owner research, hand-offs. If you'd rather see warm intros land in your CRM, we'll route them there. No engineering work on your side.
Tell us what you want to buy.
A ranked list of matching businesses, owner research, and outreach drafted for you. Your first search is free.