The best businesses to buy aren’t for sale yet. DealStratum turns off-market business owner sourcing into a workflow: map owners in your buy box, trace contacts from public records, then reach out — before a broker ever gets the mandate.
Roughly nine in ten small businesses that change hands never hit a marketplace. The owner is 60-something, has no broker, and has never typed “how to sell my business” into Google. So you wait for listings — and compete with every other searcher for the same picked-over deals. The owners worth buying from are out there. They’re just not online.
From a region on a map to an owner contact in your inbox — compiled from public records and checked for deliverability, without buying a stale list or paying a researcher by the hour.
Pull every operating business that fits your buy box — industry, geography, and size — onto one sourcing map. No listing required. These are owners, not listings.
Run a trace on any pin. DealStratum returns the likely owner from public records: name, business email, and mailing address — each checked for deliverability, so you’re not emailing a dead inbox.
Push the traced owner straight into outreach or queue a physical letter. The contact, the deal, and the follow-up all live in one place.
Reach the owner before a listing exists and you skip the auction. No 10-bidder process, no inflated multiple — just a one-on-one conversation.
Every trace is checked for deliverability before it lands on your list. You spend your outreach budget on owners who actually exist and actually read mail.
Source, trace, and reach out without leaving DealStratum or copying anything into a spreadsheet. The owner becomes a contact, then a deal, automatically.
Owner sourcing feeds the rest of your search. Here’s where a traced owner goes next.
Off-market owners aren’t online — so reach them by mail. Send tracked, pay-per-letter campaigns straight from a traced address.
Direct mail to business ownersAim itDefine exactly what you’re hunting — industry, geography, price, SDE — and the sourcing map only surfaces owners that fit.
Build your acquisition buy boxMake contactPush a traced owner into a personalized outreach sequence sent from your own inbox, with auto follow-ups until they reply.
Business broker outreachIt means finding the owner of a business that isn’t listed for sale anywhere. Instead of waiting for a broker to post a listing, you map operating businesses that fit your buy box, then trace the owner’s contact from public records so you can reach out directly — before there’s any competition.
You select a business on the sourcing map and run a trace. DealStratum returns the owner’s name, business email, and mailing address — each one deliverability-checked before it lands on your list, so you’re not wasting outreach on dead inboxes or bad addresses.
One click routes the traced owner into outreach (a personalized email sequence from your inbox) or into a direct mail campaign. The contact, the deal, and every follow-up stay connected in one workspace.
Map off-market owners, trace contacts from public records, and route them to outreach — all in your 14-day free trial.
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