We find businesses that match your acquisition criteria and call the owners directly. Your deal team meets owners before a banker runs the process.
“We’re acquiring grounds-services businesses in your region, and yours came up for the specialist work. Is that a conversation you’d ever be open to?”
Research built around your mandate
The right business may describe itself differently from the sector in your thesis. For an acquirer of commercial grounds-services businesses, a search for “landscaping” misses the specialists. We search by services, customers and footprint, then take what research cannot settle into the owner conversation.
Example: right-of-way mowing
We research the roads, utility corridors and commercial sites the company serves, then call the owner to confirm how much of the work is contracted and recurring.
“Are your mowing contracts mostly with councils and utilities, or commercial sites?”
Example: hydromulching
We establish whether the owner’s work comes from civil projects, commercial developments or residential jobs, because that decides whether the business fits the thesis.
“Does most of your hydromulching come from civil projects or new developments?”
Example: erosion control
We assess the service mix and customers from research, then ask the owner how often the same customers come back.
“How much of your erosion control work repeats with the same customers each year?”
The handoff
The rep opens with why your firm is interested in this business, explains how you acquire and learns about the company and the owner’s plans. Your team picks up with the full context.
Erosion control contractor, founder-owned
What happens after the call
Every owner is logged as reached, still to reach, or ruled out, with the reason. That record and your deal team’s feedback decide where we call next: owners still to reach, an agreed follow-up or an adjacent service that fits the thesis.
Ready to talk
We confirm company and owner fit, arrange the meeting and pass along what they want to discuss.
Not now
We record the timing and the agreed follow-up, so your team knows when and why to reconnect.
Not a fit
We record why and use it to sharpen the search.
Questions
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Approaching businesses outside a formal sale process. Coseek researches companies against your criteria, finds the owners, makes the calls and books qualified meetings for your team. The aim is a first conversation with the owner, whether or not they have decided to sell.
No. The owner may know other buyers or advisers. Direct calling starts your own relationship with the owner, before a banker sets the terms of the conversation.
Yes. We load your live conversations, account-ownership rules and exclusions before calling, so owners your team or advisers are already pursuing stay off our list.
We record the timing, their questions and any agreed follow-up. A request to reconnect later is logged separately from a booked meeting, and your deal team decides which relationships to develop and when.
Yes. We agree which businesses Coseek covers, respect your intermediary and internal relationships, and confirm who takes the meetings. Coseek runs the research, rep preparation, calls and coaching.
Your next owner conversations
Tell us the businesses you want to acquire and the ground your team has covered. We’ll show you where direct calling adds owner conversations and how we would run it.
