Discover qualified private company targets

We search 100+ sources simultaneously to find private companies that fit your mandate, then run each result through AI triage, live enrichment, and contact verification.

Search for your next deal

Set your criteria, hit search, and watch the pipeline run. Click any result for the full profile Acquisera builds on each qualified target.

Search Criteria

Pick a criteria set and click Run Search to populate.

Companies shown here are fictional and for illustration only.

From search criteria to qualified targets

Every search runs through a 5-stage pipeline. What you get back has already been discovered, scored, researched, and verified.

Stage 01

Multi-Source Discovery

Five concurrent search lanes — structured company databases, AI-grounded search, web indexes, broad web search, and tradeshow / association directories — fan out in parallel, each tuned to a different slice of the long tail.

What happens

  • Queries are built from your industry, services, location, end markets, and project-specific hints — not just raw keywords.
  • Each lane runs in parallel and applies snippet filtering, domain exclusions, and noise blocking at the source so junk never enters the pipeline.
  • Results from every source are merged, deduplicated by domain and company name, and normalized into a single unified candidate set.

What you get

  • A wide raw candidate pool with company name, website, estimated headcount, and location for every result.
  • Source attribution per company so every lead is traceable back to where it came from.

Stage 02

AI Triage & Filtering

A fast AI screening pass scores every raw candidate against your criteria before any expensive enrichment work begins. Bad fits are cut. Good fits move forward.

What happens

  • Each candidate is checked for service overlap (does the company actually do what you asked for), size and geography fit, and whether it resembles a real operating business.
  • Every kept candidate is assigned a triage score plus a list of concerns — size mismatch, vague service overlap, weak signals — for downstream verification to resolve.
  • Cuts are made aggressively here so enrichment cost and runtime stay tight on the candidates most likely to qualify.

What you get

  • A ranked short-list of candidates worth enriching, each carrying its triage score and flags.
  • A separate cut list with rejection reasons, available for audit if you want to see what was dropped.

Stage 03

Deep Enrichment & Verification

Survivors are researched live — websites scraped end-to-end, structured gaps filled from supplementary sources, and the entire enriched profile cross-checked by a second AI pass that classifies ownership and confirms fit.

What happens

  • Each company's homepage and key inner pages are scraped live to extract description, services, end markets, headcount, and phone — with URL validation rejecting parked domains, directories, and dead pages.
  • Gap-fill searches resolve any missing structured fields — revenue, employees, city, state — from supplementary sources, with fallback domain variants tried when sites resist scraping.
  • A second AI pass cross-checks the enriched profile against your criteria, flags inconsistencies, and classifies ownership — private, family-owned, PE-backed, or public.

What you get

  • Fully populated profiles with description, services, markets, employees, revenue, location, and a validated website.
  • Ownership classification and a final fit score on every result; non-private companies are filtered out.

Stage 04

Contact Enrichment

For every verified company, a multi-source contact chain identifies the right decision-maker and resolves a verified email address — never a guess dressed up as a verified contact.

What happens

  • Multiple fallback layers search for the right person — owner, founder, CEO, or relevant department head — checking already-scraped contacts first so easy wins skip the verification chain entirely.
  • Email format is auto-detected from sample addresses published on the company's own site, then the target contact's email is derived using the detected pattern.
  • Domain checks and per-source confidence scoring run at every step so guessed addresses can't leak through as 'verified.'

What you get

  • First name, last name, title, and verified email for the key decision-maker at each company.
  • Detected email format so additional contacts at the same company can be derived on demand later.

Stage 05

Database & Delivery

Verified companies and contacts are written to your project workspace and a proprietary database that grows smarter with every search you run.

What happens

  • Each result is tagged with the search criteria that produced it, source attribution, and timestamps for every enrichment step.
  • Companies you've already seen are flagged on future searches so the platform never spends time re-discovering them.
  • A summary report captures discovery counts per source, enrichment success rates, contact resolution rates, and total runtime for the search.

What you get

  • A verified company list delivered straight to your project workspace, ready for outreach or export.
  • A growing proprietary dataset that compounds value with every search you run.

Standard vs Premium Search

Both plans run the full discovery pipeline. Premium adds existence verification, fact-checking, and high-reasoning AI review.

General Wide Discovery

Broad standard API search tools

Standard
Premium

AI Discovery Extraction

Parsing unstructured data into structured data

Standard
Premium

AI Triage Scoring

Pre-enrichment scoring & flagging

Standard
Premium

Existence Verification Gate

Parallel checks using multiple sources

Standard
Premium

Enrichment & Scraping

Website scraping: descriptions, services, & market data

Standard
Premium

AI Fact-Checking

Cross-verification of enriched data & identifies hallucinations

Standard
Premium

AI Verification

Final touches, information confirmation & ownership classification

Standard
Premium

High Reasoning AI Verification

Extended reasoning pass for ambiguous signals and edge-case classifications

Standard
Premium

Website Validation

Double check & scrape websites

Standard
Premium

Contact Verification

Multi-source contact search & verification

Standard
Premium

Premium searches take longer to complete due to high-reasoning AI tool processes.

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