Find it. Verify it. Buy it.
Search listings that match your buyer profile from across the web. Verify the seller's earnings against their own P&L and tax returns. Track every deal from first contact to close.
Find it
We search the marketplaces.
You review what matches.
Tell us what you're looking for, once. We keep searching the marketplaces and score what we find. The best fits rise to the top, not the ones someone paid to place there.
- One feed, every marketplace we cover. Main-street businesses and online ones, searched together. No more a saved search on every site.
- Scored before you read them. Every listing arrives with a Scout Score and a Match %. Together they tell you which four of forty are worth an hour.
- Deal Spotlight surfaces what you haven't seen. The five best listings you haven't looked at yet, re-ranked every time you open it. We email you only when something new lands. Standard and up.
- Or bring your own deal. Paste a listing URL, or add a private deal by hand. It gets the same scoring and the same verification.
Summit Comfort Heating & Air
Greenville, SC · $1.15M asking
Northgate Landscape Group
Raleigh, NC · $840K asking
Bellweather Coffee Roasters
Asheville, NC · $520K asking
Clearview Window Cleaning
Charlotte, NC · $310K asking
Ranked by fit, not by placement
The broker works for the seller
The P&L, the add-backs, the SDE. Every number you're handed was prepared by someone who profits when you overpay.
Add-backs quietly inflate the earnings
A personal truck booked as “one-time.” The owner's full salary added back. Small adjustments stack into an SDE that looks great, until it meets the tax return.
You find out after you've wired the money
A quality-of-earnings report answers this before you sign. It costs $15,000 and takes weeks you don't have.
Verify it
Then we check whether the numbers are real.
Upload the P&L, the tax return, the offering memo. We rebuild SDE from the documents, test every add-back, and show you where the seller's number and the tax return disagree. Every figure is cited to its page.
- SDE recomputed from source. As listed against as verified, side by side, with every adjustment in between.
- Every add-back tested. Accepted, questioned or rejected. A “one-time” expense that shows up every year stops padding the earnings you're paying a multiple on.
- A verdict you can act on. Pursue, pursue with conditions, need more info, or pass. Plus the risks that matter and the questions to ask the seller.
- Nothing invented to fill a gap. If a document doesn't support a figure, the report says so rather than estimating it.
As listed
$400K
Seller's stated SDE · 2.9×
As verified
$310K
From the 2023 tax return · 3.7×
Buy it
And we run the deal from first contact to close.
Every deal gets a Deal Room. Eight stages, a checklist for the stage you're in, and the documents, notes and analysis in one place. Everything you'd otherwise keep in a spreadsheet, an inbox and a folder.
- Eight stages, one pipeline. Watching → Contacted → NDA → LOI → Due Diligence → Purchase Agreement → Closed.
- Checklists that write themselves. Move a deal to a new stage and its checklist appears. Add your own items. Nothing you've ticked is ever lost.
- The Deal Room holds everything. Five tabs: overview, documents, the analysis, the checklist, your notes. One deal, one place.
- Model the offer before you make it. Run price and financing scenarios in the Deal Calculator. Then generate the LOI from the deal you verified.
NDA checklist
Generated for this stage- Request the signed NDA from the broker
- Confirm what the NDA covers before sharing bank details
- Ask for three years of tax returns, not just the P&L
- Establish whether the owner will sign a non-compete
- Verify the maintenance-contract renewal rateYours
Add your own item
Who this is for
Built for the person writing the check.
The Executive
Corporate experience. Ready to own.
The Operator
Already owns one. Looking for more.
The Career Changer
Trading salary for ownership.
- Restaurants & Hospitality
- Home & Trade Services
- Retail & E-commerce
- Professional Services
- Online & SaaS
Product tour
Every stage of the deal, in one workspace
72 seconds through a whole deal. Track it stage by stage, keep the documents in one place, run the analysis, model the financing, generate the LOI.
Plays muted. Turn the sound on for the walkthrough.
Start free
A free account is a real account.
10 listing searches a month
Across every marketplace we cover, with full Scout Scores and match ranking.
One complete deal verification
A full report on one deal. The same engine paid plans run, not a preview.
Pipeline and watch-list tracking
The Deal Room and its stage checklists, from first contact onward.
Deal Spotlight and additional verifications start at $39/mo. No credit card to sign up.
Before you sign up
The questions we get asked most.
What's actually free?
10 listing searches a month with full scoring, pipeline tracking, and one complete deal verification. No credit card.
See plansDo I need a deal already?
No — search and score listings first. Verification is there when you have a deal's documents in hand.
How sourcing worksWhat documents do I need?
A P&L and a tax return get you a real report; add the offering memo and there's more to cross-check. PDF, image or spreadsheet all work.
What we do with themWhat happens to my documents?
They're private to you, encrypted in transit and at rest, and never used to train AI models. You can delete them at any time.
Privacy PolicyHow is this different from a $15,000 quality-of-earnings report?
It isn't a substitute for a QoE at the closing table. It's what tells you which deals deserve one — in minutes, before you've spent anything.
How the analysis works
Acquire Scout analyses documents you provide. It isn't financial, legal or tax advice, and it doesn't replace your own professionals.
More questionsStop taking the seller's numbers on faith.
Acquire Scout verifies a deal's earnings before you sign. A quality-of-earnings report costs $15,000. Plans start at $39/mo.
Sign Up FreeFree to start — no credit card. Your first deal verification is on us.