Meet the owners who fit your thesis.

We map the market against your acquisition criteria, call the owners directly and book meetings only with businesses that fit. Your deal team spends its time with owners worth meeting.

  • Owner conversations for acquirers
  • US and UK
Opening lineExample: portfolio add-on
“I’m calling on behalf of a group that acquires commercial maintenance businesses, and yours stood out. Have you ever spoken with a buyer before, or would this be the first time?”
Founder-owner, commercial maintenance business
  • Connected
  • Recurring contracts
  • Meeting booked

Who we call

We find owners by how their business makes money.

Size and geography narrow the search. Service mix, customers and ownership decide which businesses belong in it. We research those details, find the owner and prepare the questions that settle fit on the call. Your existing relationships and exclusions shape the list from day one.

Example: maintenance-led add-on

Recurring work decides the fit.

A commercial maintenance firm and a residential installer can share an industry label. For a platform buying maintenance-led businesses, we call founder-owners and establish the mix of work before anything else.

“Is most of your work ongoing maintenance, or one-off installation?”

Example: platform acquisition

Find a business that can run without the founder.

For a sponsor looking for its next platform, we call owners of established regional businesses and find out whether a management team already carries the day-to-day.

“Who else helps you run the business day to day?”

Example: search fund

Reach owners thinking about succession.

For a searcher who wants to buy and run one business, we call long-standing founder-owners and open the question of what happens when they step back.

“Have you started thinking about what happens to the business when you step back?”

The handoff

Walk into the owner meeting with context.

Your team gets the company fit, what the owner said, any timing discussed and the agreed purpose of the meeting. You take the relationship through the commercial discussions, diligence and valuation that follow.

Example handoffBooked

Commercial maintenance business, founder-owned

The business
Services, customers, operating footprint and how the company fits the acquisition criteria.
The owner
Their situation, interest, questions and any timing or ownership constraints discussed.
The meeting
Who will attend, what they agreed to discuss and what your team needs to prepare.

What Coseek runs

We run the calling operation behind your mandate.

Your team supplies the thesis and takes the owner meetings. Coseek maps the market, prepares the rep, makes the calls and qualifies every meeting. Your feedback from each meeting sets the next round of research and calling.

  1. Market mappingYour thesis as a listBusinesses researched by service mix, customers, size and ownership.
  2. Owner callingThe owner, directlyA seasoned rep, prepared on your thesis and coached by our sales manager.
  3. QualificationOnly fits reach youOwner and company match the criteria agreed with your team.
  4. Coverage recordEvery owner accounted forReached, asked to talk later or ruled out, with the reason.

Questions

Working with your deal team.

Want to hear how we open with owners? Ask on a call.

Can you source add-ons for a portfolio company?

Yes. We build the campaign around the platform’s criteria: business model, service mix, geography, size and ownership. The sponsor or portfolio team sets the exclusions and decides who takes the owner meetings.

What counts as a qualified meeting?

The owner’s role and the company match the agreed criteria, a specific date and time are confirmed and the calendar invite is sent. The handoff records what the owner said, so your deal team knows exactly where the conversation stands.

How do you assess company size and fit?

We research the business, services, footprint and ownership, then confirm what research cannot settle on the call. The handoff separates what we found from what the owner told us. Your team owns financial diligence and valuation.

How do you protect our existing relationships?

We load your exclusions, live conversations and account-ownership rules before the first call, and record every outcome, so owners already in discussion with your team stay off the list.

Can you work with a confidential thesis?

Yes. We agree what the rep needs to know and what can be shared with owners. The rep gets a credible, accurate reason for the call and clear qualification criteria. Confidential financial information stays with your deal team.

How does a campaign start?

We discuss your thesis, target profile and where your team is already active. Coseek then maps the market, prepares the rep and starts calling. Your team takes the owner meetings and tells us what fits.

Your acquisition mandate

Tell us the business you want to buy next.

We’ll talk through your thesis, the owners we would call, how the rep would introduce your firm and what would qualify a meeting for your deal team.