The business you want to buy isn't listed for sale.
Scout is an AI M&A analyst that vets off-market acquisition targets.
Ten minutes to set up. First Findings by morning.
Scout works around the clock — finding and researching off-market companies so your time goes to deals, not searching.
Describe the business you want to buy. Scout searches 14M+ company records, researches every fit, and keeps working after you close the tab.
Fifteen kinds of public record, read company by company.
- Accreditation records
- Mapping and location data
- Review and reputation data
- Industrial supplier directories
- Professional networks
- Company websites
- Owner contact resolution
- Federal statistical data
- State business registries
- Trade and professional licensing
- County assessor and parcel records
- Federal payroll and loan filings
- Motor-carrier registrations
- Federal facility registries
- Canadian business registries
Brief it in ten minutes. It works all night.
Even a funded, dedicated search averages 20 months. You write the Brief once, set the pace, and read what landed over coffee.
Start with a market, or with one name.
Find
Find acquisition opportunities
Describe the company you want. Not a database export, not a broker's list — Scout researches companies nobody sent you and returns the ones worth calling.
Research
Research a company
Hand Scout one name. It comes back a Finding: what was learned, what's still open, and whether it's worth your time.
An agent for every stage of the deal.
Each one runs continuously for your Project, under a mandate and a budget you set — working whether or not anyone on your team is logged in.
Scout
Finds and researches off-market companies against your Brief.
In production
Valuation
Prices a business from its own numbers, before you make an offer.
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Earnings quality
Checks that the numbers hold up before you pay for diligence.
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Monitoring
Watches the companies you're not ready to call, and tells you when that changes.
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Finished work lands in your systems.
Connect the tools you already work in, and Scout delivers straight into them the moment a company is worth pursuing.
Records push into your tables, fields mapped.
Advanced companies land in your campaigns.
MCPScout inside your own agent tools.
- CSV export
Every Finding, exportable at any time.
- REST API
Projects, runs, and Findings over HTTP.
- Webhooks
Signed events the moment work completes.
Questions buyers ask first.
Talk to us about fitting Dealport into how your team already works.
Off-market businesses never appear on broker listings or marketplaces. You reach them through the public record: business registries, licensing records, owner tenure, and contact data. Scout's Overnight Runs search 14M+ business records across fifteen classes of source, investigate how each owner's situation actually looks, and return a Finding on every company with the reasons written down. Anything already listed for sale is rejected outright.
A 14 days trial with 500 credits. A card and a plan are required so the trial converts without an interruption. The plan you pick begins on day 15; cancel before then and you are not billed. You are charged once, when a run completes with a durable Finding and a receipt. A system failure is never billable. Neither is a retry we caused, a cancellation, or a run that produces no Finding.
Neither — and it is not an outreach tool either. Dealport is an AI deal analyst you direct: it investigates companies against your Brief, verifies ownership and contact information where it can, and hands finished work to the systems you already use. There are no listings to browse, nothing sends without you, and nobody sits between you and the owner. Scout researches; the approach — in your name, from your inbox — is yours.
A chatbot works while you're typing to it. Scout works while you're not: it runs continuously against your Brief — overnight, on weekends, whether or not you're logged in — and there is nothing for you to host, connect, or prompt. You read what it produced and decide what happens next.
Teams that source their own deals: private equity firms running add-on programs, family offices and holding companies consolidating fragmented sectors, independent sponsors — and the search fund or self-funded buyer doing the same work without an analyst bench. If you would rather describe the company you want and get back researched companies with the reasons attached, it is built for you.
Every fact on a company carries where it came from and when. Employee counts, for instance, mostly come from payroll filings and are shown with the filing's date, which is the jobs that filing reported on the day it was filed. Scout keeps working your Project against the Brief; it does not claim that every underlying record was refreshed last night.
An SBA 7(a) loan is government-guaranteed, allows a low down payment, and is common for first-time buyers, but underwriting is slower. Conventional bank debt is faster and cheaper for strong businesses but needs more equity and collateral. A seller note is financing the seller carries themselves — it bridges the gap between price and what capital partners will fund, and signals the seller's confidence in the business. Most lower-middle-market deals blend two or three.
Give Scout a market tonight.
500 credits and 14 days to judge them. Card required. The plan you pick begins on day 15; cancel before then and you are not billed.
Ten minutes to write the Brief; the first Findings land by morning.