Built for acquisition professionals

The acquisition
operating system.

Deal sourcing. AI scoring. Pipeline management. Financial modeling. Relationship CRM. Email intelligence. A proactive AI agent that knows your entire search. All in one platform — purpose-built for acquisition entrepreneurs.

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SearchPort Beacon — Proactive AI Intelligence Feed
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SearchPort Global Deal Feed — 3,000+ Active Listings
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SearchPort Three-Statement Financial Model
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SearchPort Deal Detail — Score Breakdown & Pipeline Status
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SearchPort Financial Charts — Revenue, P&L Waterfall, Cash Flow
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SearchPort CRM — Contact Activity & Linked Deals
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SearchPort Beacon — Proactive AI Intelligence Feed
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SearchPort Global Deal Feed — 3,000+ Active Listings
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SearchPort Three-Statement Financial Model
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SearchPort Deal Detail — Score Breakdown & Pipeline Status
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SearchPort Financial Charts — Revenue, P&L Waterfall, Cash Flow
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SearchPort CRM — Contact Activity & Linked Deals

Built by — by acquisition professionals who were tired of managing multiple deals across spreadsheets, broker sites, and a CRM that wasn't built for the job.

The Problem

Your deal stack is five tools
and a prayer.

Broker sites. Inbox threads. Spreadsheets. Generic CRMs. Homemade models. Every piece lives somewhere different — and you're the integration layer. It's costing you deals and burning your time.

Fragmented Sources

Dozens of broker sites, email blasts, referrals, and proprietary outreach — each requiring separate logins, separate tabs, and manual copy-paste. And your best deals? They come from relationships, not listing sites. SearchPort gives you an aggregated deal feed, but it's fully source-agnostic — bring your own deals from anywhere and manage them all in one place.

Thesis in Your Head

Your acquisition criteria exist nowhere in software. Every deal gets evaluated informally, inconsistently, and from memory. Good deals get buried under volume.

Tools Built for Sales, Not Acquisitions

Traditional CRMs are designed around a customer sales pipeline — lead to close. Acquisition search is a fundamentally different workflow with different stages, different data, and different relationships. It deserves its own purpose-built tool, not a repurposed sales funnel.

Analysis Takes Days, Not Minutes

Every promising deal requires the same ritual — pull the CIM data, build a model from scratch, stress-test the DSCR, format it for your lender. By the time you've modeled three deals, four more have arrived. The bottleneck isn't sourcing — it's analysis.

The AI Difference

Meet Beacon — an AI that actually
knows your deals.

Most platforms bolt a chatbot onto a database. SearchPort was designed AI-first — every entity, every workflow, every data point is accessible to Beacon, a context-aware agent that understands the full picture of your search.

Full Context Awareness

It knows everything you know.

Beacon has real-time access to your entire platform — pipeline deals, financial models, contacts, companies, email threads, acquisition thesis, and your complete interaction history. Ask it "have I seen any HVAC deals from this broker before?" and it actually knows.

You Compare Peachtree HVAC to the last three HVAC deals I passed on.
Beacon Peachtree HVAC scores 81 vs. your three prior HVAC passes (avg. 54). Key differences: Peachtree has higher recurring revenue (68% vs. 41% avg.), stronger DSCR at current ask (1.42x vs. 1.08x avg.), and owner confirmed 90-day transition. The three you passed all had single-owner dependency. Want me to pull the full comparison?

Read and Write Access

It doesn't just answer — it acts.

Tell Beacon to log a call, update a deal status, draft a follow-up email, adjust your acquisition criteria, or build a financial model from a CIM. It has write access to the same data you do — it's not a read-only search tool.

You Log a call with James Wilson — we discussed the Peachtree transition timeline. Owner confirmed 90-day stay. Set a follow-up for next Tuesday.
Beacon Done. Call logged to James Wilson (Coastal Deal Partners) at 2:14 PM, linked to Peachtree HVAC. Note added: "Owner confirmed 90-day transition stay." Follow-up reminder set for Tuesday, April 21. Anything else on this deal?

SBA & SME Intelligence

Trained on what matters to you.

Beacon draws on a curated knowledge base of SBA 7(a) and 504 lending guidelines, SME acquisition best practices, deal structuring norms, and valuation benchmarks. Ask it about DSCR requirements, seller note standby periods, or working capital pegs — and get real, sourced answers.

You What's the minimum DSCR my lender will accept on an SBA 7(a) for this deal structure?
Beacon SBA guidelines require a minimum 1.25x debt service coverage ratio for 7(a) loans. For Peachtree HVAC at the current ask, your model is showing 1.42x — comfortably above the floor. If the seller's adjusted EBITDA drops 12%, you'd fall to 1.25x — right at the minimum. Want me to run the full sensitivity matrix?
Core Platform

One platform. Every workflow.
Zero copy-paste.

3,000+ Listings, Pre-Scored Daily

Browse the consolidated deal feed from 100+ active brokers. Every listing shows bankability, DSCR, multiple, and your match score before you click in. Spot a fit — add it to your pipeline in one click.

  • Unified feed from 100+ broker sources
  • Score, bankability, DSCR visible before clicking in
  • Filter by industry, state, price, revenue, and score tier
  • One-click add — deal record created automatically
  • Daily automated refresh — new deals scored and surfaced every morning
  • Active listings only — stale and sold deals removed automatically
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Thesis-Driven Deal Scoring

Define your acquisition criteria once — revenue, industry, geography, margins, deal size. Set hard gates that auto-disqualify non-starters. Every deal you encounter is scored against your thesis before you see it.

  • Hard gates eliminate weak fits instantly
  • Weighted criteria produce a 0–100 match score
  • Scores update automatically when you adjust your thesis — no re-processing needed
  • Strong, Good, Possible, and Weak tiers visible at a glance
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Your Entire Search — Organized

A purpose-built CRM for acquisition professionals. Track deals through 10 acquisition stages — from needs_review to LOI to won. Every deal linked to contacts, companies, email threads, financial models, and CIM documents.

  • 10 acquisition-specific pipeline stages
  • Contacts and companies with relationship mapping
  • Full activity timeline: calls, emails, meetings, notes, tasks
  • Follow-up reminders and needs-attention alerts
  • Deal-level relationship graph: who's involved, what's happened
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Your Personal Deal Email Assistant

Every account gets a dedicated @searchport.ai address. Forward any email — a CIM, broker blast, term sheet, or any deal-related message — and SearchPort's AI handles the rest automatically.

  • AI routes each email to the right deal record
  • Extracts financials, terms, and action items automatically
  • Logs every interaction in the activity feed
  • Forward a CIM → AI extracts financials → deal record created → financial model seeded. Automatically.
  • CC your @searchport.ai address on broker emails — the AI reads every thread and keeps your records updated
  • Works with any email client — just forward and forget
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Institutional-Grade Models. One Click.

Not a simplified calculator. A real three-statement pro forma — P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow — with SBA 7(a) terms, seller notes, earnout schedules, working capital projections, real estate terms, and MACRS depreciation. Export a 9-tab bank-ready Excel workbook with linked formulas or a formatted PDF investment memo.

  • SBA 7(a), seller note, earnout, and real estate financing
  • Sensitivity matrix: DSCR across revenue and margin scenarios
  • Custom line items: add/remove expenses across projection years
  • One-click export: 9-tab Excel workbook with IB/PE formatting
  • AI-seeded from CIM data — no manual data entry to start
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Your Pipeline Intelligence Center

A live command center for your entire search — pipeline KPIs, needs-attention alerts, velocity tracking, and AI-generated deal analysis grounded in the actual financials. Delivered as a formatted report with one click.

  • Pipeline KPIs: total value, stage distribution, deal velocity
  • AI deal analysis: risks, opportunities, and data gaps identified
  • Performance vs. industry benchmarks surfaced automatically
  • Industry analysis powered by the AI's knowledge base — NAICS-classified, benchmark-sourced, acquisition-relevant
  • Export as a formatted PDF intelligence brief in one click
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Your Proactive Intelligence Feed

Beacon works while you don't. Every morning it reviews your pipeline, checks your models, scans the deal feed, and surfaces what matters — so you open SearchPort and your to-do list is already written.

  • Flags model warnings when DSCR or key metrics shift
  • Proposes new deals from the feed that match your thesis
  • Drafts follow-up emails for overdue contacts
  • Creates deal records automatically from inbound CIMs
  • Surfaces stale pipeline deals for review or pass
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See It In Action

End-to-end workflows,
from first signal to close.

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Define Your Thesis Once. Score Everything Automatically.

Define your acquisition criteria once — revenue range, industry, geography, deal size. Set hard gates that disqualify automatically. SearchPort scores every deal it encounters against your thesis, so the signal is always filtered before you see it.

  • Hard gates eliminate non-starters instantly
  • Weighted criteria produce a 0–100 match score
  • Scores update in real time as your thesis evolves
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3,000+ Deals, Pre-Scored to Your Criteria.

Browse broker listings pre-scored against your thesis. Every deal in the feed shows bankability, DSCR, multiple, and your match score at a glance. New listings scored and surfaced every morning — no manual checking.

  • Score, bankability, and DSCR visible before you click in
  • Filter by industry, state, ask price, revenue range, and score tier
  • One-click add to pipeline — deal record created automatically
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Forward a CIM. Get a Deal Record, a Model, and a Score.

A broker emails you a CIM. You forward it to your @searchport.ai address. Within minutes: the AI reads the document, extracts revenue, EBITDA, margins, and asking price — even from messy, inconsistent small business CIMs. It creates a deal record, links it to the broker's contact, scores it against your thesis, and seeds a financial model with the extracted data. What used to be an afternoon of data entry is done before you finish your coffee.

  • Works with messy, inconsistent small business CIMs — not just clean institutional docs
  • Revenue, EBITDA, SDE, margins, employee count, and asking price extracted automatically
  • Deal record created and scored against your acquisition thesis
  • Financial model pre-populated with extracted data
  • Broker matched to existing contact or new contact created
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Bank-Ready Models Without Opening a Spreadsheet.

A full three-statement pro forma, Sources & Uses, debt schedule, sensitivity table, and rich financial charts — all computed in seconds. Every number is calculated by the SearchPort Financial Engine, generating deterministic outputs from your inputs. No AI guesswork, no hallucinated projections — just clean math you can trace, audit, and defend. The Excel export is a 9-tab workbook with linked formulas, IB/PE formatting conventions, and cross-sheet references. Hand it to your lender or advisor and they'll think you hired an analyst.

  • DSCR, IRR, equity multiple, and cash-on-cash return — deterministic, auditable calculations
  • Historical P&L vs. projected — revenue & profitability charted side-by-side
  • One-click export: 9-tab Excel workbook or formatted PDF investment memo
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Intelligence Reports Grounded in Real Data.

SearchPort generates a consistent, structured intelligence brief for every deal in your pipeline — same format, same rigor, every time. Each brief is written by Beacon, grounded in the actual CIM data and financial model. Every insight is sourced from your deal data — not hallucinated from generic web scrapes. Beacon cites what it knows and flags what's missing.

  • Deal overview: business summary, deal structure, key risks and growth opportunities from the CIM and financials
  • Performance benchmarks: revenue, margins, and EBITDA compared against industry peers
  • Industry context: sector tailwinds, headwinds, and competitive dynamics relevant to the target
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Manage Your Entire Search from One Conversation.

SearchPort's AI isn't a search bar. It's a fully context-aware assistant that can do anything you can do in the platform — faster. Query your pipeline. Log a call. Draft a follow-up. Adjust your model. Compare two deals. All from one conversation window.

"What's the status of my pipeline? Which deals need attention this week?"
Pipeline summary with prioritized action items, flagging 4 deals with overdue follow-ups and 2 with stale status.
"Log a call with James Wilson — discussed Peachtree transition. Owner confirmed 90-day stay."
Activity logged, linked to Peachtree HVAC and James Wilson (Coastal Deal Partners). Follow-up set for next Tuesday.
"What happens to DSCR if revenue drops 10% on the Peachtree model?"
Real-time sensitivity on your actual model: DSCR drops from 1.42x to 1.27x — still above the 1.25x lender floor, but close. Showing full sensitivity matrix.
"Have I seen any HVAC deals in Georgia in the last 6 months?"
Cross-references pipeline history and deal feed: 7 HVAC deals in Georgia found. 3 passed, 1 active (Peachtree), 3 from the feed you haven't reviewed.
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Beacon Handles It Before You Ask.

Most tools wait for you to ask. Beacon works while you're sleeping. Every morning, Beacon reviews your pipeline, checks your models, scans the deal feed, and surfaces what matters — model warnings, deal proposals, stale pipeline flags, and email follow-ups. Open SearchPort and your to-do list is already written.

Beacon — 5 items need your attention
Model Warning
DSCR dropped below 1.25 on Peachtree HVAC — sensitivity suggests revenue exposure. Review before LOI.
Review Model →
Deal Proposed
New HVAC listing in Atlanta scores 84 against your thesis. $2.1M revenue, 18% EBITDA margin. Matches your geo and industry criteria.
Add to Pipeline →
Email Draft Ready
Follow-up with James Wilson is 8 days overdue. Draft prepared based on your last conversation.
Review Draft →
Deal Created
CIM received from Coastal Deal Partners — deal record created, financials extracted, model seeded. Score: 71.
View Deal →
Status Update
3 deals haven't moved in 30+ days: Blue Ridge HVAC, Southeast Plumbing, Midwest Distribution. Review or pass?
Review →
Built-In Expertise

An AI that knows SBA lending
as well as you do. Maybe better.

SearchPort's AI draws on a curated knowledge base of SBA 7(a) and 504 lending guidelines, SME deal structuring norms, valuation benchmarks, and acquisition best practices. It's not a generic chatbot — it's a specialist.

"What's the standard standby period for a seller note on an SBA 7(a) deal?"
The SBA requires a full 24-month standby period for seller notes on 7(a) deals (SOP 50 10 7.1). During standby, no principal or interest payments are made on the seller note. Some lenders require longer. After standby, the seller note typically converts to a 5-7 year amortization schedule.
"What multiple should I expect for a $2M revenue HVAC company in the Southeast?"
For HVAC businesses (NAICS 238220) in the $2M revenue range, typical SDE multiples run 2.5–3.5x and EBITDA multiples 4–5.5x. Recurring service contract revenue, owner-independence, and technician tenure are the primary premium drivers. Southeast deals trend slightly below national averages due to market fragmentation.
"Can I use an earnout with SBA financing?"
Yes, earnouts are permitted with SBA 7(a) financing, but the standby provisions apply — the earnout obligation is treated similarly to a seller note. The earnout must be structured as a contingent liability in your Sources & Uses, and your lender will want to see a minimum equity injection regardless. Earnout amounts also affect your total injection requirement calculation.
"What DSCR does my lender need to see?"
SBA guidelines require a minimum 1.25x debt service coverage ratio for 7(a) loans. For Peachtree HVAC at your current model assumptions, you're showing 1.42x — comfortably above the floor. If revenue declines 10%, your model projects 1.27x — still passing, but with very little cushion. Something to flag for your lender conversation.
Why SearchPort

The complete acquisition
operating system.

A combined suite of tools tailor-made for acquisition professionals, leveraging the power of AI. Built by a searcher and small business operator who ran the process firsthand — and it shows in every design decision.

One Unified Platform

Deal feed, thesis scoring, pipeline CRM, financial modeling, document intelligence, and AI — all connected, all speaking the same language. No more copy-paste between tools.

AI-Native from Day One

Intelligence isn't a feature layer — it's the foundation. Every workflow, from scoring to modeling to communication, is designed around AI from the ground up. The AI has full context of your entire search.

Built by a Buyer

SearchPort was created by an active searcher and small business operator who lived the fragmented process. Every design decision reflects a real workflow problem — not a theoretical one.

"We built SearchPort because we were running a real acquisition search — 40+ deals across 12 broker sites, a CRM that didn't understand acquisitions, and a collection of spreadsheet models that never talked to each other. Every week we spent more time organizing than analyzing. So we built the tool we wished existed — and it changed how we work."

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