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Build a focused, thesis-fit list of acquisition targets with search angles, fit rationale and the biggest risk per type.
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Deal Scout
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Use the Deal Scout skill. My acquisition thesis (so you do not need to ask me for more):
- Sector: commercial fire and life-safety inspection and service, or a close neighbour with code-mandated recurring work.
- Size: EBITDA $1.0M to $1.5M, revenue $4M to $10M.
- Geography: my home state, within a two-hour drive of where I live.
- Business model: written inspection or maintenance agreements, technician-based.
- Owner situation: founder retiring, no successor.
- Structure: my equity, a bank loan and a seller note.
Build me a target list with search angles. Do not invent company names.
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- Compiled the deal scout
Deal Scout: target types and where to look
Limit up front: I cannot search live databases and I do not return verified company names. Everything below is a type, a search angle or a starting point to check. I have not confirmed that any directory below is current, public or free.
1. Your thesis, restated
You want to buy one technician-based, code-driven inspection and service company with EBITDA of $1.0M to $1.5M, from a retiring founder with no successor, within two hours of home, financed with equity, a bank loan and a seller note. The assumption I am making: "close neighbour" means work that is also mandated on a schedule, not project work.
2. Target types
| # | Type | Why it fits | Biggest risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fire alarm inspection and monitoring | Scheduled code inspections, multi-year agreements | Founder holds the contractor licence |
| 2 | Sprinkler and suppression inspection and repair | Same recurring base, repair upsell | Repair share is lumpy, not contracted |
| 3 | Fire extinguisher service and testing | Dense routes, high repeat rate | Low ticket size, route concentration |
| 4 | Backflow and fire pump testing | Annual mandated tests | Narrow customer set, certifications |
| 5 | Elevator or emergency lighting inspection | Mandated recurrence, similar skills | Different licence and technician profile |
| 6 | Fire protection business inside a larger electrical or mechanical contractor | Owner may want to exit a non-core line | Carve-out; shared staff and records |
Rank by fit: types 1 and 2 first.
3. Search angles
Retirement signals: long-tenured owners, a company still using a founder's name, no second-generation name on the licence list.
Licence angle: licensed contractors with a single named qualifier. That is a founder-dependence signal to test, not a target.
- Record angle: firms whose websites look unmaintained.
- Adjacent angle: electrical and alarm installers with a service route.
4. Where to look, and search strings
Starting points to verify; I have not checked them:
- Your state's fire protection contractor licensing board or state fire marshal (public licence lookup, if your state publishes one).
- The National Fire Protection Association and the National Fire Sprinkler Association: member and local-chapter lists.
- Business-for-sale marketplaces such as BizBuySell and BizQuest, and local business brokers.
- Searches (replace the brackets):
"fire protection" "inspection" "[city]" "family owned since","fire alarm" "sprinkler" "[state]" "retiring","fire protection contractor" "[county]" licence "[state]".
5. Next step
Pick type 1 or 2, build a list of ten to twenty candidates from the licensing board, check each one's website, then send direct owner approaches. Treat any name you find as a hypothesis until you have checked it yourself.
This is an analytical aid and not investment, legal, tax or accounting advice. The Project Sentinel documents are synthetic test data; no real company is named here.
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About this skill
Build a focused, thesis-fit list of acquisition targets with search angles, fit rationale and the biggest risk per type. Use at the start of a search, or when asked to 'find acquisition targets', 'build a target list', or 'where do I look for deals'.
Works with
Any agent that reads the SKILL.md standard and can read attached documents. No scripts, no network access, no installs.
Known limitations
It turns your thesis into target types, search angles and places to look. It does not search live databases and does not return verified company names; anything it names is a starting hypothesis to check.
About the author
Original work, listed by its author: part of the free, MIT-licensed open-deal-kit,
https://github.com/MariusGithub13/open-deal-kit
The hosted version that writes a fully cited diligence brief across a whole data room is Deal OS:
https://getdealos.tech/sandbox?utm_source=agensi&utm_medium=marketplace&utm_campaign=deal-scout
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