Proprietary direct origination platform
Every single assetin your market.
A private instance of the platform, built on the market you choose, delivered in just two weeks. Not a list. The entire acquirable universe, resolved to ultimate ownership, sized on earnings, mapped by geography and hundreds more data fields, handed to your team as a working cockpit.
What you get
The whole market, not a sample of it.
Exhaustive enumeration.
Every operator identified and resolved to a verified corporate identity, not a name on a directory. One completed market runs to roughly 2,900 firms, around 2,570 of them still independent.
Ownership traced to the individual.
Shareholdings followed through holding companies to the ultimate beneficial owners, structure recorded rather than asserted. You see who actually has to say yes.
Consolidator mapping.
Who else is buying, what they have already taken, and which assets are contested rather than open. Detected from ownership movement, not press coverage.
Earnings, estimated or actuals firm by firm.
Filed figures where they exist, benchmarks from that market's own filers where they do not. Every figure carries its basis and confidence.
Geography that answers where to build.
Drive-time catchments, demand density, hub-and-spoke segmentation and territory scoring, ending in a written verdict on where to found a platform.
Contact routes, sourced.
Physical, digital and correspondence details per firm, with the signals that indicate a receptive owner: age, tenure, succession position, exit setup.
Anonymised platform market results
The problem
Why buy on-market when you can buy off-market?
Broker processes deliver assets already shaped, priced and shopped. Proprietary origination is where the return is, and every firm knows it. What stops it is the work: a large multi-site market carries well over ten thousand premises, several thousand operating companies, and an ownership picture buried under holding structures no list vendor unwinds.
The usual answer is an analyst, a subscription and six weeks, producing a list that is stale before it is finished. This is the other answer.
The cockpit
Your firm, your market, your instance.
Deployed privately for your firm alone, on your market alone, behind authentication, with a named login per partner. Not a shared database. Not a product with other tenants in it.
Five tabs
Map.
Catchment and hub-and-spoke view, so the team orients geographically before reading a table.
Candidates.
The ranked universe with a full filter suite, thousands collapsed to a conversation-sized list in seconds, evidence one click behind every row.
Shortlist.
Two stages by design: any partner stages a firm, either promotes it to actively worked, agreement visible.
Pipeline.
A CRM over the promoted set: status ladder, deal owner, next action, note log with author and timestamp.
Methodology.
A partner-grade account of how every number was reached, and what the map cannot see.
What they said
From partners who have run it.
"I have not seen anything like this in private equity. No UK firm I know of has this capability in-house today. It turns a market you would otherwise spend six weeks guessing at into something you can work on Monday morning."
"It blew us away. The depth is the thing: not a list of names, but every owner in the market traced back to the person who has to sign. I have never had a view of a market like it."
Delivery
Just two weeks from engagement to instance.
You name the market. The universe is enumerated, resolved, traced, sized, scored and mapped, and the instance is deployed with your partners' logins. Refreshes fold new data in without disturbing your shortlist or your pipeline history. Your picks and your call notes are yours, and are never overwritten by a data run.
Bring me a market.
If it is large, fragmented and multi-site, it can be mapped. The first conversation is about whether the market is worth the work, not about the platform.
For funds, the platform is delivered as a productised engagement by Wayleave Partners.
will@escott-consulting.comLondon based, working UK-wide.