Built for sponsors competing against private equity.
Private equity firms employ teams dedicated to proprietary outbound. In order to compete, you need an edge. We are that edge.
Deal-by-deal economics demand off-market sourcing.
Independent sponsors do not have the cushion of committed capital. You win on entry multiple. The deals that find you through banker channels are the ones you cannot afford to bid on.
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Auction-bid deals don't pencil.
By the time a banker takes a deal to market, the multiple is set by competition. Committed-capital buyers can stretch on price. You cannot.
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Your network has a ceiling.
Sourcing through warm intros and conferences is real, but it caps out. You see the same deals other sponsors see, on the same timelines.
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LPs expect a thesis they could not have sourced themselves.
What capital is paying for is access and conviction. Generic brokered flow is not differentiation. Off-market flow against a sharp thesis is.
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You cannot scale outreach while also closing deals.
The hours that go into consistent direct-to-owner outreach are the same hours you need for diligence, structuring, and LP conversations. Something gives.
If banker-led processes are pricing you out, let’s talk through a proprietary sourcing strategy.
Platform mandates and add-on mandates, sized to sponsor economics.
We source platforms at the size most independent sponsors actually transact at, and add-ons sized for the bolt-on strategies that drive returns post-close. Every mandate is built around your sector thesis and the principal’s edge.
- Platform Acquisitions
$2M to $5M
Target EBITDA
Founder-led businesses you can take to LPs as a defensible thesis. Sourced direct-to-owner, before a banker has a teaser in market.
- Portfolio Add-Ons
$500K to $1M
Target EBITDA
Bolt-ons that compound the platform thesis. Sized to fit the platform’s integration capacity and the deal team’s bandwidth.
Every mandate is built around the specifics of your buybox.
Geography
Single market, regional, or national. Mapped to where you want to operate, not where deals happen to be.
Service Lines
Sourced by specific service offering within an industry, not just sector codes. A multi-service business gets evaluated on the lines that matter to your thesis.
Management Layers
Founder-led, owner-operator, or management-team-in-place. We qualify by the ownership structure that fits the transition you want to underwrite.
We can help you source opportunities that support a sharper LP conversation.
Run us as your external sourcing arm, or embed us inside your firm.
Most independent sponsors run Fractional. It is the natural fit when the deal team is the principal and a small bench. Internal BD is for the established sponsors who want a named, white-labeled function under their fund’s brand.
Model 01
Fractional Business Development
Elite origination capability under our brand, run as a confidential outside team. Scaled, multichannel proprietary outbound at the output of an institutional BD function.
- Branded as OutSearched to preserve sponsor confidentiality
- Multichannel proprietary outbound at scale
- Mandate-specific outreach architecture per thesis
- Weekly pipeline reviews with the principal
- Concurrent mandates if your thesis spans multiple sectors
Best for principals and small teams who want institutional sourcing output without expanding headcount.
Model 02
Internal Business Development
A trained, managed business development function placed inside your organization. Branded as your firm in all outreach. Integrated with your CRM and process.
- White-labeled outreach under your firm's name
- Direct integration with your investment team and tools
- Covers proprietary and banked deal flow
- Mandate-specific outreach architecture per thesis
- Weekly pipeline reviews with your team
Best for established sponsors who want a named internal BD function carrying their fund’s brand into the market.
Let’s decide whether your search needs Internal BD, Fractional BD, or advisory support.
Built for LP-presentable deal flow.
Independent sponsors do not just need to find a deal. They need to find a deal LPs will back. That means proprietary sourcing against a clear thesis, a defensible entry multiple, and a story that maps to the principal’s edge in the market.
Off-market multiples that pencil.
Banker processes drive valuations into territory that breaks deal-by-deal economics. Direct-to-owner outreach gets you to the table before competitive bidding starts.
Sourcing that fits your thesis, not someone else's.
Most sponsors have a sharp sector or geographic focus tied to the principal’s background. We build the mandate around that edge, not a generic LMM buybox.
Deals your LPs could not have surfaced themselves.
What LPs pay you for is access and conviction. The deals we source are not on the screens a passive LP could pull from Grata or Sourcescrub on their own.
If capital wants conviction, let’s build the sourcing process that supports it.
How independent sponsors compare us to the other options.
The honest comparison. Source it yourself, work through bankers, or run OutSearched against your mandate.The honest comparison. Internal hire, banker channels, and OutSearched. Each comes with structural trade-offs.
Option 01
Source It Yourself
- Capped by your network and your hours
- Same warm intros every sponsor sees
- Slow accumulation, easy to plateau
- LP pressure mounts while you wait
- Deal flow dies the moment you go under LOI
Option 02
Banker and Broker Pipelines
- One bidder in a competitive process
- Auction dynamics break entry economics
- Hard to differentiate against better-capitalized PE
- No ability to build a relationship directly with the owner
- Impossible to compete with PE that sources before deals come to market
Option 03
OutSearched
- Fixed retainer plus the lowest closing fees in the category
- Outreach launches within 21 days of mandate kickoff
- Direct-to-owner before a banked process exists
- Mandate built around your principal's edge
- Infrastructure already built and tuned
Let’s discuss how to reach owners before the process gets crowded.
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In their own words.
Bring LPs deals they could not have found themselves.
A 30-minute strategy call. We will walk through your thesis, show you how we would build the outreach engine, and tell you whether we are the right fit for your next platform or add-on.