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Acquisitions.com — How We Work
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Done for you · buy side and growth side

We find the business, we buy it,
then we run the growth.

This is the actual work — the systems, the documents, the reports and the dashboards your engagement produces. Every screen here is from the platform we run for clients.

PART 1  Sourcing, analysis and the offer
PART 2  The growth system we install after close

What one month looks like — for one client

Not a total across everyone. This is what a single buyer sees in thirty days, while still doing their day job.

90
Applications sent
~3 a day
27
Broker replies
30%
6
NDAs signed
same day
3
Memoranda received
read in full
GO/PASS
Verdict on each
the judgment
PART 1

We find it, vet it and buy it

Three ways to find a business worth owning — and everything that happens once one is in hand.

01

Your buyer profile

Every engagement opens with a full interview — your background, operating experience, capital position and what you're actually equipped to run.

The interview, written up
Geography, financing capability, career track record, operating experience and acquisition criteria — the document brokers read before they decide whether to take your call.
Accounts opened on every platform
A complete buyer identity built for you — marketplace logins, broker portals and auction sites, created, verified and maintained so you arrive as an established buyer rather than an anonymous signup.
20+ platforms per client
02

Listed

Sixteen marketplaces, scanned daily against your buying criteria. Deals are scored and the strongest are applied to automatically.

Every marketplace, every day
One engine watching all of them, so nothing that fits your criteria gets missed on the day it lists.
Sources monitored
BizBuySellBizQuestDealStream BusinessBroker.netBusinessesForSaleBusinessMart LoopNetAxialSunbelt TransworldSynergyKMF Business ModificationVestedShowcaseRealmo
Deals scored, then applied to automatically
Every listing is scored against your buy box. Top-scoring deals are submitted for you — up to 50 a day — and tracked through every stage.
Listings monitored500
Submitted on your behalfautomatic
Daily submission ceiling50
Stages tracked6
NewFits filterQueued SubmittedRepliedNDA received
Your live deal board
Colour-coded by stage: under LOI, under contract, sold, or passed — with the reason recorded.
What we capture on every deal
Location, revenue, EBITDA, cash flow, year established, employee count, seller type and intermediary — before anyone spends time reading it.
03

Pre-market

Relationships with brokers across the country, so their listings reach you before they reach the market.

A national broker network
Name, firm, direct contact and credentials — heaviest in Florida, California and Texas, with coverage in every state we buy in.
Brokers in the network2,737
With direct contact1,228
Worked each week150–200
How the relationship gets built
A structured sequence over two weeks — introduction, credentials, your buy box, then a direct ask for anything not yet listed.
1Introduction — who the buyer is and what they're funded to acquire
2Credentials and the specific buy box
3Market note — what we're seeing in their sector
4The ask — anything pre-market? NDAs signed same day
5Close the loop and keep the relationship warm
The actual five emails
Introduction, then credentials and your buy box, then something genuinely useful about their market — so you're a peer and not a lead. Then on day ten, the direct ask.
day 10 is the one that produces deals
Running right now
Sent from your address on warmed domains, capped at 30–40 a day so your inbox stays healthy. Every step tracked.
31% reply rateindustry avg ~8%
What comes back
Confidential memoranda, executive summaries, P&Ls, income statements, balance sheets and financial recasts — filed per deal, per client, and read in full.
71 received in 30 days
04

Off-market

Going directly to owners who never listed. The hardest channel to run, and where the least competitive deals are.

What it takes to run this properly
Five separate systems that have to work together. This is the part almost nobody builds.
1Build the owner list from public dataSCRAPING
2Enrich with verified contact detailsAPOLLO · CLAY
3Stand up dedicated sending domains10–20 DOMAINS
4Warm them so mail lands in the inbox2–3 WEEKS
5Run outreach at volume, monitored dailyINSTANTLY
Databases most buyers never see
Private company data covering millions of businesses that will never appear on a listing site.
SourceCo · 200M+ businessesGrata · 16M companies Kumo · 100K+ live dealsSourceScrub · 15M+ Inven · 23M companiesPrivSource IBBA DirectorySearchFunder
Approaching the owner directly
A three-week sequence to an owner who has never thought about selling — opening with a qualified buyer, closing with a reason to reply either way.
Owners approached weekly100–150
Sequence length21 days
05

We act as the buyer

Applications, NDAs and every piece of correspondence go out under your name, from your address — so brokers deal with a buyer, not an agency.

NDAs signed and returned same day
Confidentiality and non-circumvention handled for you, so nothing waits on paperwork.
144 signed in 30 days
06

Analysis

The same questions asked of every business, then a human argues with the answers. This is where deals get killed before they cost you money.

Where the real risk shows up
Earnings falling year over year, labour running above the industry ceiling, expenses that can't be categorised, an owner who is the business.
Your due diligence report
Executive summary · revenue quality & trends · add-back audit and normalised earnings · margin and cost structure · working capital · verification checklist · operations · customers · competitive position · transition terms · growth plan · risk register · recommendation and proposed structure.
16 pages13 sections
A short-form analysis on every deal
Headline metrics, financing structure, three-year trend, top risks, owner involvement, the questions to ask, and who you'll need to hire after close.
07

The numbers

Price, debt, seller note, working capital and equity — modelled before anyone gets attached to a deal.

Does the deal actually service its debt?
Every structure tested against a coverage ratio of 1.5× or better. Below that, the business owns you.
The model behind the recommendation
Inputs on the left, results calculated on the right, and a clear recommendation at the bottom that a human can override with a reason.
How the purchase gets funded
Most buyers are surprised by how little of the price comes out of their own pocket.
Buyer — down payment10%
Seller — carries a note10%
The bank — SBA 7(a)80%
SBA ceiling now $10M
08

Capital

Proving you can pay, then finding the money. Brokers won't release a memorandum without evidence of funds, and the best deals need more than one source.

Proof of funds, on demand
Requested before a memorandum is released. Generated per deal so a broker's request never stalls your position in the queue.
The letter the broker receives
On letterhead, referenced and dated, pre-qualified to a stated amount, valid 90 days, with a verification contact.
Bank pre-qualification
A real lender reviews your financial statement, liquidity, credit profile and management experience — then puts a number in writing before you make an offer.
SBA 7(a)
The investor room
Active acquisition investors, with role, mandate and direct contact — so a deal that needs equity has somewhere to go.
Investors on file2,460
With verified contact1,536
With direct dial155
The debt room
Independent-sponsor and first-time-buyer lenders — deal focus, EBITDA band, check size and a named contact at each firm.
Lending firms35
Named contacts61
Typical focus$2M+ EBITDA
09

The offer

We structure it, we write it, and we put you in front of the broker with your position already made.

Every deal, side by side
Price, earnings, multiple, coverage ratio and annual cash flow — with the letter of intent and full report one click away on each.
Letter of intent
Price and terms, risk contingencies, assets in and out, diligence and closing timeline, exclusivity and signature block.
The introduction, already made
Sent from your address with your buyer profile and calendar attached, so the broker arrives at the call already knowing you're serious.
10

What you see

A report every single day, and a live board you can open any time.

Your daily activity report
Brokers contacted, replies received, NDAs signed, proof-of-funds letters sent, memoranda received, deals analysed and calls booked — then the actual replies and every document attached.
every day, including the quiet ones
Your deal portal
Every deal we've vetted for you, why we like it, the numbers, the broker's details, and a next-step checklist.
PART 2

Then we grow it for you

Buying it is half the job. This is what we build in the first ninety days — left to right, the same order a customer moves through your business.

01

Getting found

A website that takes bookings, top of the map, and named when people ask AI.

A website that takes the booking
Fast, works on a phone, books straight into your calendar.
First on Google, and in the map
Paid at the top and number one in the map pack. Both.
And first when people ask AI
More customers start here every month. Almost nobody local has thought about it.
02

Lead generation

We write the ads, make them, get your approval, and run them. You do about ten minutes a month.

You never write, film or edit an ad
Script → filmed or AI presenter → your approval → launched.
Ads measured on booked jobs
Not clicks. Not leads. Booked, done and paid.
One video, every platform
Made once, posted everywhere, every day.
Your feed, filling up
Film it yourself in ten minutes a month, or we clone your face and voice once.
03

Appointment setting

Every call answered in two rings, day or night, and booked straight onto the calendar.

A real call, 8:47 on a Sunday night
Answered, qualified, booked for Monday morning.
One inbox for everything
Calls, texts, website, Facebook, Instagram, Google — one customer, one thread.
Straight onto your calendar
Booked and confirmed by text before the call ends.
You see it happen in Slack
Every call and booking as it lands.
4.3 seconds to answer
04

Follow-up

Text and email that runs itself — so quotes don't die and people actually turn up.

Every quote gets chased
Five messages over 30 days, with financing. This is where $30–50k a year normally dies.
And we make sure they're home
Confirmation, reminders, the tech's name, and "20 minutes away".
no-shows 18% → 6%
05

Sales

Three options on every quote, every call recorded, and coaching from what was actually said.

Your team on a real call
Recorded, transcribed, scored. The AI flags what was missed and the coach follows up that evening.
Pricing stops living in someone's head
Flat-rate book, three options every time, financing above a threshold — and a scorecard showing who closes and who needs coaching.
06

Reviews & referrals

Asked for after every single job. The two cheapest sources of work there are.

The ask, and where it goes
Fives go to Google. Anything lower comes to you privately, in time to fix it. Then the referral link.
4.1 to 4.9 stars
Which is why you're now first in the map.
And we go back to your old customers
People who already bought once. No ad spend.
07

The numbers

One screen for today. One for the month. No waiting on the bookkeeper.

Today, live
Calls, jobs booked, revenue, and where it came from.
And the month, closed for you
Revenue, costs, profit, cash — done without you chasing it.
08

Or just talk to it

All of it sits behind one screen. If you want, stop clicking and simply ask.

Your whole business, in one conversation
"How did we do this week?" · "What's still unpaid?" · "Book the Thursday slot." Click to watch the demo.
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09

What it's worth after

The systems make you more money now. They also move you along the curve — and that's worth more.

Size is what sets the price
Two businesses can earn the same and sell for completely different money. The difference is how big they are.
90-day test drivesystem is yours either way

Acquisitions.com — the firm that invests in, buys, and sells businesses.
Part 2 figures illustrate a service business at roughly $12M annual revenue, shown as a worked example of the reporting and output the system produces. Client names and contact details are withheld throughout.