Off-market acquisition intelligence
Everyone fights over the same picked-over listings. Mainferret surfaces the owners who would sell but haven't told anyone — and tells you which businesses are actually worth buying, grounded in 2.17 million real SBA loan outcomes.
Owners who took an SBA loan 16–26 years ago are now at prime exit age — and many bought the business with that loan, so they already know the playbook. We own that signal at national scale, fused with the one dataset that reveals which businesses actually survive.
Query any geography × industry × size × loan-vintage. Get exit-age owners with mailing addresses, ranked by sell-readiness — before they ever list.
Real default rates by industry & owner profile from 2.17M outcomes. Know the safe sectors from the landmines before you spend a dollar.
Tell us your skills, geography, and risk tolerance. AI ranks where you add the most value for the most reward — personalized, explainable.
The full lifecycle
SBA-data succession signal + Places enrichment → ranked off-market targets + direct-mail export.
Survival truth by industry & owner profile. The safest entry (acquisition) fails at less than half the startup rate.
Ingest your interests & edges → personalized theses, sectors, and a next-move origination plan.
One-click company + owner dossier: registration, licenses, litigation, liens, reviews, news — with AI risk flags.
Seller uploads private files once, encrypted. AI normalizes SDE, flags concentration, drafts a QoE-lite report + valuation range.
After you buy: benchmarked dashboards, integrations, DSCR covenant monitoring & AI optimization — on a plan that grows with the tools you turn on.
Anonymized outcomes from every deal sharpen the model — proprietary multiples & benchmarks no public source has.
The moat
SBA outcomes are the success/failure label. We layer on owner identity, distress, demand, and — where public — actual financials, to score every business on sell-readiness, acquirability, and estimated performance.
SBA FOIA · Census BDS & BLS survival · Enigma performance · Medicare cost reports · USAspending · state registration & licenses · UCC/liens/litigation · Google/Yelp trends · ad & web signals.
Pricing
Enterprise sourcing tools cost $20–100k/yr. Mainferret starts free.
Know the market before you commit.
Run a real off-market search.
For independent sponsors & holdcos.
White-label, bulk API, data feeds.
"We're running our own search on it — environmental & permitting firms across the Mid-Atlantic. The tool finds the owners brokers never see."
Free to start · no card required