Build a more deliberate path to your next acquisition. Reach owners with a reviewable approach.
We map selected public signals to your thesis, review available contact data, and prepare source-grounded drafts for your approval.
Build your sourcing research around your acquisition thesis.
Widely distributed listings can increase competition
Marketplaces and broker lists can reach many buyers at once. Once an opportunity is broadly listed, competition can increase and differentiated diligence can be harder.
Coverage is hard to see
Without a defined thesis and operating cadence, it is difficult to know which plausible targets have been assessed or reached.
Diligence can interrupt sourcing
Founder-led sourcing can be interrupted when diligence becomes demanding. A documented operating cadence helps keep research visible while priorities shift.
A list is not a conversation
Buying contact data still leaves the hardest part undone: reaching the owner with something worth a reply.
Signal to conversation.
We build the workflow around your thesis. AI can accelerate research; a review step flags material-claim gaps, and you control the approval gate.
Thesis & signals
We map targets against your thesis, then flag public indicators for further research, such as owner succession, profitable bootstrapped ownership, sector consolidation, leadership changes, and public "exploring alternatives" language. These indicators do not establish willingness to sell.
Research & review
We review available contact data and compare material message claims with source data. The review flags gaps for human attention; it does not guarantee accuracy or identity verification.
Your gate
You approve every message. Nothing reaches an owner without your yes. Edit, reject, or send, all from one place.
Reply routing
The scoped workflow can sequence outreach and route interested replies to the agreed owner. Every configured touch is visible in one dashboard.
Surface potential owners for review.
The workflow reviews your thesis universe for selected signals, checks available contact data, drafts a source-grounded approach, and routes it to your approval.
We don't sell you a list. We build the outreach workflow.
Deal-sourcing tools can provide names while leaving research and outreach to your team. We scope and build the research, available contact-data checks, approval process, and outreach workflow; ongoing operation is agreed during scoping.
Book a sourcing call →- Search funds and ETA acquirers
- Independent sponsors
- Lower-middle-market PE deal teams
- Boutique M&A advisors on buy-side mandates
- Pure marketplace flippers
- One-off sub-$1M deals with no thesis
- Buyers who want a raw list and nothing else
FAQ
How is this different from a deal-sourcing data tool?
With a data-only purchase, your team manages outreach and follow-up. Asphia scopes research, claim review, approval, and follow-up around your thesis. A list alone is not an operating process.
What signals do you use to find off-market targets?
Owner age and succession patterns, bootstrapped and profitable companies with no outside capital, sector roll-up and consolidation activity, leadership departures, and public "exploring strategic alternatives" language, all filtered to your acquisition thesis.
Do I approve the outreach?
Yes. Every message passes a human gate. Nothing reaches an owner without your approval. You edit, reject, or send from one place.
What deal size and markets do you cover?
Scope is confirmed during discovery. The workflow can be adapted to the agreed acquisition thesis, market, and deal profile for search funds, independent sponsors, lower-middle-market PE deal teams, and buy-side M&A advisors.
Review a sourcing workflow for your thesis.
A short call: your thesis, the signals worth assessing, and the approval process your team needs.
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