Find the off-market deals your competitors never see.
The 30-Day Deal Flow Engine is a custom AI system built around your buy box. It sources companies, scores every one against your mandate with evidence, spots owners who are ready to sell, and drafts the first message. Built and run by our team. Live in 30 days.
The deal platform behind Digital Growth Equity (UK private equity) and White Knight Acquisitions. See the resultsYou didn't get into acquisitions to build spreadsheets.
Every buy-side team we talk to says the same thing: the best deals are off-market, and finding them by hand eats the week.
Lists that don't fit the mandate
Bought lists and generic platforms return companies that miss your criteria, and the size data often disagrees from one database to the next.
Screening by spreadsheet
Every target gets scored by hand, one tab at a time. The spreadsheet breaks before the market runs out of companies.
Outreach owners ignore
Manual LinkedIn work takes hours and books too few calls. Owners have learned to tune out generic approaches.
Sellers spotted too late
The signals that a founder is ready, like an expired listing or no successor in place, go unwatched until a broker calls you.
Thirty days. Four phases. A pipeline that fills itself.
Your involvement is about 4 hours in total: one workshop, one calibration review and one handover.
Map your buy box
A workshop to capture every mandate, the size basis you buy on, sectors, geographies and red flags. We turn it into a scoring rubric you sign off.
Build and source
We connect US and UK company data and broker listings, then run your first sourcing pass.
Calibrate
You mark our verdicts right or wrong. We tune the scoring and add the off-market signals and outreach drafts.
Go live
Pipeline, watchlist, Deal Copilot and outreach switched on, with team onboarding. After that, we run and improve it every month.
Your own AI deal team. Every piece solves a problem you already have.
Buy Box and Mandate Scoring Engine
Your mandates turned into code: sector, geography, and size in whichever terms you buy on (revenue, EBITDA, cash flow or price). Run several mandates side by side. Every company gets a Qualifies, Potential or Reject verdict with the evidence behind it.
Deal Sourcing Engine
US and UK company data pulled, cleaned and de-duplicated in one place, plus on-market broker listings, so you see both the listed deals and the thousands of owners who have never been approached.
Off-Market Signal Watchlist
Tracks the signals that point to a seller before a broker gets the mandate: expired broker listings, succession and owner-age signals, and company changes. You get alerted when a watched company moves.
Owner Contact Enrichment and AI Outreach
Finds the decision-maker, enriches the profile from the web and LinkedIn, and drafts a personal first message for you to review and send. Nothing goes out without your approval.
Deal Pipeline and Deal Copilot
One pipeline from first touch to LOI, plus a Chrome extension that scores and saves any company or listing you are looking at, straight into your pipeline.
Valuation and Diligence Assistant
First-pass financials parsed into turnover and purchase-price ranges, and a first read of diligence documents that flags what needs a human look.
Buy Box Workshop and Mandate Playbook
A working session to sharpen your criteria before we build, written up as a one-page mandate you can share with brokers and co-investors.
90-Day Scoring Calibration
For three months we tune the scoring to your accept and reject decisions, so the engine learns to think like your deal team.
Owner Outreach Script Library
First-touch and follow-up sequences written for founder-owned businesses, ready to load into the outreach module.
Monday Deal Digest
Every Monday, the newest qualified targets and watchlist alerts land in your inbox or Slack, ranked and ready to act on.
Team Onboarding and Video Library
Live onboarding for your team plus short recorded walkthroughs, so a new analyst or VA is productive on day one.
Not a list of names. A verdict you can act on.
Every target arrives scored against your mandate, with the evidence and the signal that makes it worth a call. Illustrative examples, not real companies.
| Company | Mandate | Size basis | Verdict | Evidence and signals | Next step |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hartwell Precision Ltd (example) | UK manufacturing, £1m to £3m EBITDA | EBITDA band, est. from filed accounts | Qualifies | Owner aged 64, no named successor; listing expired 4 months ago | Draft intro ready for review |
| Lakeview HVAC Services (example) | US home services, $1m to $2m cash flow | Cash flow band, est. from revenue and headcount | Potential | Revenue fits; two sources disagree on size, flagged for a check | Verify size, then approach |
Already running inside buy-side firms.
For more than two years, Unicorn Studio has been our AI and technology partner across the whole deal cycle. On the buy side, they built our platform for deal sourcing, valuation, due diligence and outreach, which now sits at the centre of how we find and assess acquisitions.
What sets Unicorn Studio apart is that they understand how private equity actually works. They start with the business problem, not the technology, listen carefully, welcome feedback and adapt as new information emerges. Saidur and his team bring real energy and ownership to the work.
As a PE owner, I'd recommend Unicorn Studio to any private equity firm or buy-side acquirer that wants to use AI to source better deals and create more value in its portfolio.
White Knight Acquisitions
WKA, a deal sourcing platform with custom buy box scoring, broker-listing discovery, watchlist, pipeline and the Deal Copilot Chrome extension.
Digital Growth Equity
A buy-side platform covering sourcing, valuation, due diligence and outreach, built on UK company data with director and company filters, web and LinkedIn enrichment, and AI-drafted outreach reviewed by the deal team.
One deal pays for years of this.
Compare a year of the engine with a year of doing it by hand. Illustrative numbers. Plug in your own.
Built for buyers. Only buyers.
A great fit if you
Not a fit if you
Your mandates are nobody else's business.
Your buy box, pipeline and notes are the edge you are paying for. We treat them that way.
A dedicated system
Your engine runs as its own instance, not a shared database where your targets sit next to another buyer's.
Closed-network option
For regulated firms, we run it on your own server with open-weight models, so nothing leaves your environment.
You own the data
Your targets, scores, notes and pipeline are yours. Export everything, any time.
One setup fee. One monthly fee. All the risk is ours.
We build the engine, host it, run it and improve it every month. You show up to the calls the engine books for you.
Common questions
How is this different from Grata, PitchBook or a bought list?
Those are databases you search. This is a system built around your buy box that searches, scores, watches and drafts outreach for you, using your criteria and your judgement. It can sit on top of data sources you already pay for.
Which markets do you cover?
US and UK companies today, including on-market broker listings. Tell us your geography on the call and we will confirm the data depth for it.
Does the AI message owners on its own?
No. It drafts personal first messages and follow-ups. A person on your team reviews and sends every one, so your reputation with owners stays in your hands.
How much of our time does it take?
About 4 hours in the first 30 days: a buy box workshop, a calibration review and a handover. After that, a short monthly check-in.
We run several mandates. Can it handle that?
Yes. Mandates are separate in the system, and each can be sized on a different basis, such as revenue, EBITDA, cash flow or purchase price.
What if the first targets are wrong?
That is what the calibration phase is for. And if day 14 doesn't look like your kind of deal, you can stop and keep the list.
Stop hunting. Start choosing which deals to chase.
Book a 30-minute deal-flow call. Bring your buy box. We will show you what the engine finds for it and confirm whether you are a fit.