We Build the Outreach.
You Focus on the Opportunities
At Deal Prospectors, we don’t send scraped lists or recycled leads.
We build tailored campaigns that connect you with business owners who match your target profile, and are open to selling before they ever list publicly.
Custom outreach campaigns start at
$500/month + Success Fee
And roughly 80% never reach a listing at all.
“It’s been a fantastic experience. Geoff and his team are excellent at what they do in connecting off-market sellers to potential buyers, and I really appreciate how they care deeply about both the seller and the buyer experience.”
Anna McGeeEntrepreneurial Capital
Why We Take This Approach
Owners often consider selling quietly, respond to the right outreach, or are open to a conversation long before they would ever hire a broker.
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We define your criteria
Industry, size, geography, financials. Your ideal target, not just whatever happens to be available.
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We contact owners directly
Instead of waiting for situations to surface, we proactively reach businesses that match and start the conversation on your behalf.
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You enter at the right moment
Before a formal process begins, you build relationships and access opportunities earlier than any listing ever could.
Buyers access opportunities earlier and build relationships before a formal sale process begins. That gives you a position no marketplace can offer.
Our Deal Sourcing Process
Four steps from your buy box to a qualified owner conversation.
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Define Your Ideal Seller
We start by mapping your buy box:
- Industry and geography, revenue and EBITDA range
- Deal structure preferences (e.g. seller financing, asset vs stock)
We then build a targeted database of matching business owners using verified data and intent signals.
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Launch Multi-Channel Campaigns
We choose the best mix of outreach based on your audience:
LinkedIn outreachFrom your profile or ours. We optimize profiles for outreach.
Cold emailEspecially for industries with high reply rates.
Google AdsTargeting owners showing seller intent.
Meta AdsTargeting business owners in specific sectors.
Short video adsFor certain campaigns this is where response rates improve most.
Every message is custom written to your tone and target profile. All while we continue optimizing with A/B testing and refined targeting behind the scenes.
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Engage & Qualify Owners
We don’t chase unresponsive contacts. We focus on surfacing responsive, qualified owners who are willing to share financials and discuss a potential sale.
Every lead we pass to you is pre-qualified based on:
Revenue & EBITDA Reason for selling Timeline & expectations Geography Employee / company size -
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Handoff That Fits Your Workflow
Once a seller is qualified, you choose how they’re handed off:
Option ABooked directly on your calendar, with lightweight reminders to avoid no-shows.
Option BPre-screened by our team via a phone call.
Option CYou call them directly after receiving their contact info.
Who We Typically Work With
Deal Prospectors is designed for buyers who are actively pursuing acquisitions and want a more direct path to owners.
Independent Sponsors
Building a thesis-driven pipeline
Self-Funded Searchers
Sourcing proactively instead of waiting on listings
Private Equity Teams
Supplementing internal deal sourcing
Platform Companies
Executing add-on acquisitions in fragmented industries
Operators & Executives
Preparing for a first acquisition with clear criteria
Family Offices
Seeking proprietary opportunities outside of brokered processes
What they have in common is simple. They know what they’re looking for and want to start conversations, not just review deals that everyone else is seeing.
Where We’re Not a Fit
Worth being direct about, so you don’t spend a call finding out.
Who This Is Not For
This is probably not the right fit if you:
- Are casually exploring the idea of buying a business
- Don’t yet have a defined industry, size range, or geography
- Are only interested in reviewing marketed deals
- Expect immediate transactions without outreach and relationship-building
- Want a list of companies rather than help starting conversations
What We’re Not
Three things we get asked about often.
Our work is focused on proactive outreach and developing opportunities that don’t yet exist publicly.
Our Pricing & Plans
Start free with the buy box tool, or have us run the outreach for you.
Buy Box Builder
No account, no commitment.
Discover your acquisition niche in minutes.
Buyers defining their buy box or exploring industries.
- AI analysis to define and sharpen your buy box
- Discover industries other buyers are overlooking
- Total addressable market (TAM) insights for each niche
- A personalized summary of your ideal acquisition profile
Done-for-you proprietary sourcing for self-funded buyers.
Independent or first-time buyers who need deal flow but have limited budgets.
- Target list creation
- LinkedIn profile optimization
- Managed outreach
- Seller pre-qualification
- Calls booked to your calendar
- Leads stored in your CRM
- Monthly retainer credited towards success fee
- 10% profit share on rejected leads*
- Cancel anytime after 60 days
Full-scale multi-channel sourcing for PE firms, HoldCos, and rollups.
Private equity groups, family offices, and aggregators seeking consistent off-market deal flow.
- Advanced targeting and research
- LinkedIn and email campaigns
- Meta and retargeting ads
- Creative testing and optimization
- Managed outreach
- Seller pre-qualification
- Calls booked to your calendar
- Leads stored in your CRM
- Monthly retainer credited towards success fee
- 10% profit share on rejected leads*
- Cancel anytime after 60 days
*If we send you a deal and you pass, we may match it with another buyer. If that buyer closes the deal, you receive 10 percent of the success fee we collect.
For acquisition targets above $2M EBITDA, contact us for custom pricing.
What Our Clients Say
Hear from buyers who’ve successfully sourced deals with us.
Anna McGeeEntrepreneurial Capital
“I am an owner at one of the fastest growing insurance agencies in the U.S. and a significant amount of our growth has been by acquisition. We look to buy profitable, well run agencies, but it has always been a ton of work to get in front of the right owners. We started working with Deal Prospectors to expand our efforts and I have been very impressed. They truly are masters of lead generation and have been able to help me find great off-market deals and book calls directly with the owners for productive conversations. If you’re looking to grow through acquisition, you need to talk to these guys. So many organizations out there love to talk about what they can do, where Deal Prospectors actually gets it done. To put it simply, they have become a trusted and valued partner in the continued growth and expansion of our business.”
Dave RivellElement Risk Management
Ready to Start Your Search?
Tell us what you’re looking for and we’ll build the outreach that finds it. Campaigns start at $500 per month plus a success fee.
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