Built for entrepreneurs buying small businesses

Run your entire acquisition search from one place.

Find proprietary targets, organize brokered deals, and connect your AI to every company, CIM, note and analysis in your search.

SoloSearcher is the system of record built specifically for SMB acquisition entrepreneurs.

The SoloSearcher pipeline — a working search with rated companies, statuses, industries, and estimated SDE in one view

Your search is probably spread across six different tools.

None of these tools are bad. They simply weren't designed to work together around an acquisition.

Proprietary targetsExcel

Broker dealsEmail

CIMsGoogle Drive

ResearchBrowser tabs

DiligenceChatGPT / Claude

DecisionsNotes + memory

SoloSearcher

Everything you learn about a business stays with the business.

A company record — the business, the stage and quality rating it was given, and the SDE and revenue estimated from public payroll data

Example Industrial Services

Stage: In Diligence · Rating: 4.4 · Source: Proprietary

Revenue Estimate from Headcount: $4.1M
SDE Calculated from Revenue: $680K

Contacts

Dana Whitfield — Owner · Marcus Reed — Broker

Documents

CIM.pdf · 2025 P&L.xlsx · Tax Returns.pdf

Notes

Owner planning retirement · 70% recurring revenue · Customer concentration TBD

AI Analyses

Screening · Earnings Quality · SBA Feasibility · Revenue Quality · Risk Analysis

Activity

Added to search → Owner researched → CIM received → Analysis completed

A real search has two pipelines. SoloSearcher handles both.

Proprietary Search

Most acquisition entrepreneurs cannot rely solely on publicly listed opportunities.

Build a universe by geography, industry, employee count, estimated revenue and SDE
Research and prioritize companies worth contacting

The company universe being narrowed with an SDE range filter

Brokered Search

Opportunities arrive from brokers, marketplaces, and emails.

Add broker opportunities and manually add companies
Import existing targets
Use scheduled AI workflows to monitor brokerage websites

Brokered listings from multiple sources with Keep and Pass actions

One acquisition pipeline

Start with a map of the market—not a blank spreadsheet.

4M+

companies

The starting universe consists of businesses that received PPP loans.

Revenue

estimate from headcount

Employee counts combined with Census-derived revenue-per-employee data.

SDE

calculated from revenue

Estimated revenue passed through industry-specific financial models built for individual NAICS codes.

These estimates are designed for market mapping, screening and prioritization—not as a substitute for company financial statements or diligence.

The goal isn't to tell you exactly what a private business earns. It's to help you turn thousands of possible companies into the smaller universe worth investigating.

Give your AI the context to actually help with your search.

Current workflow

Upload CIM → explain deal → paste search criteria → ask questions → lose analysis in another chat.

SoloSearcher workflow

Company + documents + your search context → AI → structured analysis → saved back to the company.

MCP · connected agent

A company's AI tab — diligence skills that run through a connected agent, and a completed report saved back onto the company record

Use the AI you already prefer.

Connect any AI agent that supports MCP. SoloSearcher becomes the acquisition data and workflow layer behind your agent. How to connect your agent

YouClaude / AI AgentSoloSearchercompanies · CIMs · financials · notes · analyses · pipeline

Settings → Connections

The Connections setup card with Claude connected — paste one URL, choose read-only or read-and-write, approve

Don't start every deal analysis from a blank prompt.

Every opportunity is evaluated using the same frameworks, making deals easier to compare. 38 acquisition-specific analyses, from an open prompt library.

Most used

Quick Screening

Decide in minutes whether an opportunity deserves more attention.

Financial diligence

Earnings Quality & SDE

Reconstruct SDE and challenge seller add-backs.

Financing

SBA Feasibility

Evaluate debt-service coverage and SBA financing feasibility.

Revenue QualityBusiness ValuationWorking CapitalRisk AnalysisCompetitive LandscapeSeller AssessmentGrowth StrategyAcquisition PlaybookLender Cash Flow+ more →

Stop checking the same broker websites every morning.

Broker sitesScheduled AI taskFind new listingsDeduplicateScreen against buy boxAdded to SoloSearcher

vikingmergers.com/businesses-for-sale — checked daily by your agent

A brokerage listings page — one of the sites a scheduled agent monitors for new listings matching your buy box

Already searching? Bring your existing work.

Your search doesn't need to start over to move into SoloSearcher.

Add any company — not just ones in the SoloSearcher database
Import existing searches using the SoloSearcher spreadsheet format
Use an AI tool to transform your existing spreadsheet into the import structure

import.csv → SoloSearcher

The Import companies dialog — upload a CSV in the SoloSearcher template format

Your search is your search.

Is my pipeline private from other users?
Are my documents and CIMs kept private?
What can my connected AI access?
Can I delete or export my data?
Does my private research enrich the shared database?
Is my content used to train AI models?

Read our privacy policy →

Built for my search. Opened up for yours.

The founder previously built and sold Tindie, then worked as a Senior Product Manager at Netflix. When he began searching for an SMB to acquire, the process became fragmented across company lists, broker opportunities, documents, AI conversations and spreadsheets. So he built his own CRM, datasets and AI workflows to run his own search.

He shared how he was using AI during his search on Searchfunder. The post drew substantial direct interest from other searchers asking for access — which led to opening SoloSearcher to other acquisition entrepreneurs.

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