Bespoke Deal Origination for Lean Acquisition Teams
More owner conversations.Less banker-led process.
SearchLoop helps lean acquisition teams build a repeatable path to proprietary dealflow — from target research and owner contact paths to outreach workflows, follow-up, and learning loops.
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Trusted by search funds, independent sponsors, roll-up operators, and growth equity teams pursuing proprietary deals across the US and UK
Example Screens
Live Screens We've Built
Two real acquisition screens you can click into right now. Each one is the same loop applied to a different thesis — fragmented trades in one region, a roll-up platform in another.
Sector + Geography
Ohio Home Services
Plumbing, roofing, HVAC and adjacent trades across Ohio metros — owner-led businesses prioritized by reviews, traffic, ownership type, and platform signals.
View live screenRoll-Up Platform
Texas Dental Intelligence
Every acquirable dental practice in Texas, filterable to your thesis. Live tunable thresholds across specialty, size, revenue proxies, and ownership signals.
View live screenWhat We Build
The Origination Loop, End to End
Market Maps
We construct the target universe around your sector, geography, size parameters, and acquisition criteria.
Thesis-Aligned Screens
We organize and prioritize companies against the signals that matter for your mandate, making it easier to decide who is worth reviewing and contacting.
Owner Contact Layer
We enrich founders, owners, operators, executives, websites, signals, and contact paths for priority targets.
Conversation Workflow
We turn priority targets into structured owner conversations using human-reviewed messaging, CRM workflows, reply handling, and feedback loops that improve targeting over time.
Where the Value Lives
The Hard Part Isn't the List. It's the Judgement Layer.
SearchLoop does more than map companies or send messages. We design the operating logic between your investment thesis and the owner conversation: how the market is defined, which signals matter, how targets are prioritized, how owners are approached, and how every reply improves the system.
Investor-Native Qualification Logic
We translate your acquisition criteria into practical screening rules: ownership signals, size proxies, growth indicators, market position, website quality, review density, and thesis-specific red flags.
A System of Record, Not a Spreadsheet
Every company, contact, signal, message, reply, and next step lives in one structured workflow — so your origination knowledge compounds instead of disappearing into inboxes and tabs.
Owner Psychology Built Into the Workflow
Founder and owner outreach is not generic sales copy. We design messaging around trust, timing, relevance, succession, growth constraints, and why a conversation might be worth taking.
Feedback That Improves the Screen
Replies, objections, referrals, dead ends, and positive signals feed back into the screen, making each campaign smarter than the last.
How to Engage
Two ways to run your origination.
The Origination Desk
For teams that want SearchLoop to help operate the origination motion, not just build the system.
Everything in Built For You, plus:
- Ongoing target batches
- Managed outreach workflow
- Reply handling support
- Weekly optimization
- Monthly reporting
- Owner conversation handoff when there is qualified interest
- A managed path to more qualified owner conversations over time
For teams that want a hands-on origination partner rather than another database or internal tool.
Book a Dealflow DiagnosticBuilt For You
We build and maintain your proprietary origination system so your team can run a more focused, repeatable sourcing motion.
Your team runs the outreach. We maintain the system behind it.
- Target universe built around your thesis
- Owner/operator contact layer
- SearchLoop screen and system of record
- Outreach workflow and messaging logic
- Monthly data refresh, QA, and support
- Ongoing improvements as your thesis evolves
For acquisition teams that want a proprietary origination engine, but do not need SearchLoop to run the inbox.
Book a Dealflow DiagnosticMost teams start with Built For You and move to the Desk. Not sure on fit or budget? Book a Dealflow Diagnostic and we'll find the right way in.
How It Works
From Dealflow Bottleneck to Repeatable Origination Motion
We Understand the Bottleneck
Sector, geography, acquisition criteria, current sourcing process, what has worked, and where the motion is getting stuck.
We Build the Target Universe
We construct a practical universe using public data, company websites, directories, filings, maps, enrichment sources, and custom research.
We Prioritize the Right Companies
We use thesis-specific signals to help separate obvious no-fits from companies worth reviewing more closely.
We Build the Conversation Workflow
We identify likely owner/operator contact paths and design outreach logic around relevance, trust, timing, and owner psychology.
The System Learns
Replies, objections, referrals, timing signals, and dead ends feed back into the system so targeting and messaging improve over time.
About the Founder
Built by Someone Who's Been on Your Side of the Table
Russell Taylor spent his career in investment banking at Credit Suisse in New York and Greenhill in London before moving to the buy side at Treïs Group, a €300M growth equity fund investing €10–30M tickets across Europe.
After years screening deals, running outreach, and building pipeline from inside investment teams, he founded SearchLoop to solve the origination bottleneck with purpose-built AI systems for acquisition teams.
SearchLoop is built for investors who need more than another database — they need a repeatable way to find, qualify, contact, and learn from the right companies.
SearchLoop was built at the intersection of private equity judgement, AI workflow design, and owner-conversation psychology — because proprietary origination is not just a data problem or an outreach problem.
Start With Your Dealflow Bottleneck
Tell us what you are trying to buy, how you are sourcing today, and where the motion is breaking down. We'll talk through whether the issue is target universe, owner access, qualification, messaging, follow-up, or something else — and whether SearchLoop can help.
Book a Dealflow Diagnostic