Access more qualified acquirers for your sell-side clients
DealFlowAgent helps advisory firms, brokers and boutique investment banks expand buyer access for specialist mandates across building services, healthcare, facilities management, fire & life safety, HVAC, electrical maintenance, M&E and security.
You remain the lead advisor. If DFA introduces the successful buyer, we receive 18% of your success fee. If we do not, we receive nothing.
No upfront fee for advisor partners. DFA is paid only where we introduce the successful buyer.
12,900+
Acquirer and buyer-contact records across our internal systems
2.1M+
Companies and buyer records indexed across our research infrastructure
UK · US · Global
Buyer coverage across UK, USA and selected global markets
10–16wks
Typical targeted outreach window to qualified buyer engagement
Not planning to stay involved as lead advisor? If you just want to refer an owner over to us, the referral programme is the right route — simpler terms, paid on completion.
Backed by investors behind Uber, SpaceX, Canva, Notion and others, to modernise M&A advisory for business owners and buyers like you.
We have raised investment from the same backers behind companies that transformed entire industries.
Capital is being deployed to keep delivering successful exits — sharper buyer mapping, a stronger advisory bench, and a faster process for owners.
One LOI is not completion certainty
A signed LOI creates momentum, but it also creates dependency. Additional qualified buyer coverage protects your process, your client and your success fee.
~30%+
Signed LOIs that collapse before completion
Diligence findings, EBITDA disputes, financing gaps, retrades, seller hesitation.
3–5×
More qualified buyers reduces single-buyer dependency
Competitive tension protects your client's price, terms and timeline.
0%
Of fees if DFA does not introduce the successful buyer
You stay lead advisor. DFA supplements your buyer coverage only.
Public commentary, including Axial's 2025 broken-LOI analysis, suggests a meaningful minority of signed LOIs fail before completion. Estimates vary by deal type and source.
Experienced Dealmakers Lead Your Exit
A senior M&A bench, plus a sector specialist recruited for your industry on every deal.
Head of M&A
Recently joined — name announcing soon
Recently joined from one of the largest M&A advisory firms in the UK. As an ex-Director, our new Head of M&A was selected from over 220 applicants to lead the advisory bench across Building Services and Healthcare.
James Duboullay
Senior M&A Advisor
- •25+ years across investment banking, M&A and fundraising
- •Sector focus: essential services and software
- •Long-standing relationships with private equity buyers and growth funds
- •Personally advising DealFlowAgent founders for the past four years
Emerson Patton
Sector Specialist: Building, Construction & Trade Services
- •20+ years advising owners in building services, fire safety, HVAC, plumbing, and construction
- •Guided 200+ companies through growth, profit improvement, and exit planning
- •Builds equity value and operational structure long before a sale
- •Partners with DFA to prepare owners for exit while the advisory team runs the sale
Joe Thomason
Senior M&A Advisor
- •Previously Analyst at KBS Corporate
- •Analyst at Hampleton Partners, Associate at Tech Credit Partners
- •Worked on 25+ completed transactions (£300k to £120m)
- •Specialist in debt lending for business buyers
Kaya Kesici
M&A Advisor — Fire Safety, Security & Compliance
- •17 completed M&A transactions over the past six years across UK SME fire safety, security and compliance-led services
- •Sell-side and buy-side experience — buyer research, acquirer mapping, outreach and live process coordination
- •Information request lists, databook prep, IC-style summaries and EV-to-equity bridge work
- •Direct sector exposure across fire protection, security systems, CCTV, access control and intruder alarms
Previously
Ranger Fire & Security · Complete Building Services · Compliance Group
Sam Pouyan
Senior M&A Advisor
- •10 years across buy-side and sell-side M&A
- •Former investment banking analyst
- •Expert in financial modelling and deal structuring
- •22 completed M&A transactions
- •Direct relationships with hundreds of strategic and financial acquirers
- •Previously built a mobility and field services business to 30 staff and 6 UK warehouses, then sold via competitive process with an EY M&A partner
- •Raised £2m in funding; placed 3rd of 1,900 at OnStage (the "Y Combinator of Europe")
- •Full-stack developer of advanced agent systems and second-brain tooling for the M&A process
- •Founded Fanbytes, scaled revenues to £10m+, exited at multi-eight-figure valuation
- •Advises on multiple M&A deals, invests in early-stage ventures
- •Built 700,000+ follower community teaching founders to scale and sell
- •Partnered with DealFlowAgent to expand access for founders to buyers
Sector Expert
Industry-Specific Advisor
For every engagement we add a sector specialist from your industry to the core team: a 15–25 year operator or advisor with direct relationships in your niche. Recruited per deal so you get the right fit, not a generalist.
Senior M&A Advisor
Offer stage — joining late July 2026
Selected from 200+ applicants including bankers and advisors from Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, EY and KPMG, plus leading boutique M&A firms.
Senior M&A Advisor
Final interviews — joining late July 2026
Lower-mid market specialist (£1M–£10M EBITDA). Shortlisted from the same 200+ applicant pool across bulge-bracket banks and Big-4 corporate finance.
The bench is growing. Two senior M&A hires confirmed for late July 2026, selected from 200+ applicants out of Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, EY, KPMG and leading boutique M&A firms. See open roles →
The AI layer behind every advisor
Two in-house AI systems work alongside the human bench. They are software, not people — built and supervised by the advisory team.
Sage
AI Deal Concierge
Available 24/7. Monitors every signal in your deal and keeps the advisory team one step ahead. Trained on thousands of M&A transactions.
Sterling
Buy-Side Deal Origination Agent
Engages 12,000+ acquirers to surface live mandates and intent, then feeds your advisors with warm, ranked buyer matches.
The Challenges of Traditional Deal-Making
Inefficient, Manual Buyer Research
Hours spent building buyer longlists from LinkedIn, databases, and Google, only to find most contacts are outdated or irrelevant.
Unpredictable Revenue and Long Timelines
The feast-or-famine cycle of deal flow. Long timelines delay your commissions and create uncertainty across your pipeline.
Difficulty Uncovering Premium Buyers
Struggle to look beyond the usual suspects and find the hidden acquirers who will pay a genuine premium for your client's business.
Intelligence-Led Buyer Discovery
We have invested significant capital into data science, research infrastructure, and specialist databases so that your clients get access to acquirers that traditional methods simply cannot reach.
Always-On Buyer Mapping
Our research agents run continuously across the UK, US, and key European markets, identifying new companies, tracking acquisitions, and flagging buyer intent signals as they emerge.
4 Investment Bank-Grade Data Sources
We have invested tens of thousands in API credits across four specialist M&A databases, supplemented by wider internet research. 10 different research agents conduct deep-dive analysis across these sources simultaneously.
50+ Acquisition Intent Signals
We score every potential acquirer against 50+ signals, including acquisition history, capability assessment, strategic fit, cross-sell and upsell synergies with your client's business, and genuine buying intent.
15-Source Contact Enrichment Waterfall
We use a 15-database waterfall to find verified email addresses, phone numbers, and decision-maker details for every qualified acquirer. No outdated or generic contacts.
Multi-Stage Personalised Outreach
Every buyer communication is written across multiple stages of personalisation, then fact-checked, cross-referenced, and validated so that every contact feels warm, relevant, and specific to the acquirer.
Human-Led Review by Experienced Advisors
Our founding team has sold over 12,900 businesses. Every buyer list, every piece of outreach, and every strategic recommendation is reviewed by an experienced M&A professional before it reaches you.
From Mandate to Competitive Tension
Submit a Mandate
Securely and confidentially submit your client's deal details. A mutual NDA provides complete peace of mind. Your clients remain your clients.
We Expand Qualified Buyer Access
Our research agents analyse 4 investment bank-grade databases, 50+ intent signals, and wider internet sources to expand the qualified acquirer universe with 200-500 strategic and financial buyers, each with a documented rationale.
We Refine Your Documentation
Our team reviews your Information Memorandum and teaser, providing expert feedback to ensure it resonates with the specific buyers we have identified.
We Launch Personalised Outreach
Multi-stage personalised buyer communications, fact-checked and cross-referenced, so every acquirer receives a warm, relevant approach that drives responses.
You Close at Better Terms
More qualified buyers at the table means competitive tension, stronger valuations, better deal terms, and more cash up front. You lead negotiations and close the deal.
Clear buyer attribution before outreach begins
Before DFA begins outreach, the lead advisor can provide a protected-buyer list for active mandate-specific conversations. That protects existing advisor relationships while ensuring DFA is protected where we create new buyer engagement.
Protected advisor buyers
Already in active mandate-specific dialogue before DFA starts. No DFA fee entitlement.
DFA-introduced buyers
DFA creates the first mandate-specific engagement, meeting, offer or LOI. DFA fee applies if that buyer completes.
Shared / unclear buyers
Agreed upfront before outreach begins.
Detailed wording sits in the advisor-partner agreement.
Book a Confidential Call
Book a confidential 30-minute call with Joe from our M&A advisory team. No obligation. Everything discussed stays between us.