Build a plain-English acquisition thesis, and DealStratum scores every market in the country 0–100 for fit — owner age, white space, fragmentation, deal activity, and momentum — on a map you can read at a glance and drill into county by county.
Built on Census, SBA, and licensed-contractor data — not vibes.
The territory decision quietly determines everything downstream — your deal flow, your competition, whether your offers ever close. Make it on evidence, before you commit a year of your search to a guess.
Three steps from “I want to roll up HVAC” to a shortlist of the exact markets where that thesis works.
Pick an industry and a region, choose which signals matter and how much — Critical, Matters, or Off — and set your population and income floors. No analyst required; it reads like a sentence.
An overhead fit-score map paints the entire country, warmest where your thesis fits best. Switch between county grain for the national picture and ZIP grain to zoom into a metro’s trade areas.
Click any market for a decomposed scorecard — each signal’s score and the weight you gave it — plus open capacity, trade-area density, head-to-head compare, and Ask AI.
Every market is scored on the same signals, on one nationwide scale so they compare cleanly. You decide which are Critical, which merely Matter, and which to turn Off — and the fit score follows your thesis.
Where owners are old enough to sell. Aging owner-operators across a market mean a wave of businesses that will change hands — the deal flow that makes a buy-side thesis possible.
Where demand outruns supply. Markets with population and income to support more of your service than currently operate — room to open, expand, or take share.
Where lots of small operators split the market and none dominate. The classic roll-up setup — buy several, consolidate, and own a region instead of a storefront.
Where acquisitions actually close. SBA-backed deal activity signals a market where banks lend, sellers transact, and your offer can get to the finish line.
Where the local economy is moving. Business formation and growth tell you whether you are buying into a rising market or one quietly drying up.
Click a market and the fit score opens up into the analysis behind it — so you understand why it ranks where it does, and what it means for your search.
Every signal’s score and the weight you assigned it, so the 0–100 fit score is fully transparent — never a black box.
How many units a market can realistically support versus how many operate today — the gap that says “room to grow” or “already saturated.”
Draw a trade area around a point and read the density of operators and demand inside it — the analysis that turns a county into a real territory.
Put two finalists side by side — fit scores and every underlying signal — and make the call on evidence instead of a hunch.
Ask a market a question in plain English — “why does this rank so high?” — and get an answer grounded in the same data the scorecard uses.
See the whole country by county, then drop to ZIP grain to find the cluster of trade areas inside a metro where your thesis really lands.
Territory Intelligence answers where before you commit your search. Once you have the market, these turn it into deal flow.
Turn the territory you picked into a saved buy box — industry, geography, price, and SDE in one filter.
Watch on-market listings inside your chosen territory cascade into one live, de-duped feed.
Reach the off-market owners in that territory who never list — trace verified contacts and start outreach.
It is an acquisition market finder. Instead of starting with a single business for sale, you start with the question of where to hunt — you build a plain-English thesis (an industry and the signals that matter to you), and DealStratum scores every market in the country 0–100 for how well it fits, then shows you the result on a map you can drill into.
Authoritative, public data — not vibes. We pull from sources like the U.S. Census and SBA, plus licensed-contractor coverage for the trades, and grade every market on one nationwide scale so they’re directly comparable. You decide which signals matter most.
Two grains. The county-grain choropleth gives you the national picture at a glance; the ZIP-grain view lets you zoom into trade areas inside a metro, because the right market is often a cluster of ZIPs, not a whole county.
Yes. Pick any two markets and see their fit scores and every underlying signal side by side, so the choice between two finalists is a data decision, not a gut call. You can also ask plain-English questions about a market and get answers grounded in the same data the scorecard uses.
Territory Intelligence finds the market — the where. Once you have picked a ripe territory, pair it with the Waterfall to watch on-market listings there, and Owner Sourcing to reach the off-market owners who never list. It answers where to hunt before you build a thesis around a single deal.
Build your thesis, read the map, and shortlist the markets where your acquisition actually works — before you spend a year hunting in the wrong place.
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