Off-market origination, built in house

Proprietary deal flow, engineered.

We build and install off-market sourcing engines for search funds, independent sponsors, and micro-PE firms. Direct conversations with owners who fit your thesis, and every procedure documented so the system is yours when we leave.

Book a 20-minute fit call No pitch. A straight look at whether your thesis fits the engine.

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The private-company universe Lower middle market · $1–5M EBITDA

Representative pipeline · weeks 2–6 Illustrative, composite of engine output

Target	Size	Signal	Status
Specialty logistics	$1.8M EBITDA	Founder, 34 years in operation	Call scheduled
Commercial HVAC	$3.2M EBITDA	No successor named	Conversation open
Managed IT services	$1.1M EBITDA	Owner past retirement age	Intro call held
Precision machining	$4.5M EBITDA	Exploring options quietly	Passed to principal

The problem

Every deal you see in a process, everyone else sees too.

Banked deals come with an auction and a premium. Proprietary ones come from thousands of unglamorous owner touches, which in most firms means an analyst grinding lists by hand until they leave. Sourcing is a systems problem, and most firms are solving it with labor.

Auction pricing

Intermediated processes trade at a premium because everyone with a mandate is in the room. The deals worth owning are the ones that never reach it.

Sourcing by hand

Lists, enrichment, sequencing, follow-up. Done manually it caps your coverage at whatever one tired person can push through a week.

Knowledge walks

When the analyst or intern running outreach moves on, the process moves on with them. Nothing is written down, so nothing compounds.

What gets installed

Six components. One origination engine.

Built inside your firm and run alongside you, from your name and your domain. Owners talk to you, not to a vendor.

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Built in house Run from your domain

Thesis & Target Criteria

Your investment thesis translated into concrete screens: sector, size, geography, owner profile, and the disqualifiers that keep noise out of the pipeline.

Owner Data Pipeline

Scraping plus waterfall enrichment that turns the private-company universe into reachable owners with verified contact data.

Outreach Engine

Email and LinkedIn sequences written in a register owners actually answer. Direct, discreet, and free of broker-speak.

Signal System

Repeatable detection of succession, retirement, and transition signals, so outreach lands when the timing is real rather than random.

Pipeline & CRM

Stages from first reply to principal handoff, with handling and tagging rules your team follows without asking what comes next.

The Operating Manual

Every procedure written down and installed in your stack, where your team already works. The reason you're never dependent on us.

The overview

The engine, in nine slides.

The same walkthrough we give on a fit call: what gets built, how owners are reached, and what the pipeline looks like once the engine is running.

Corveth · origination overview 9 slides

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Why this is different

Most consultants leave a doc. We leave the source code.

Every procedure the engine runs on is written down and installed in your stack. Target criteria, data pipeline, sequences, signal playbook, CRM rules, all living in the tools your team already works in. Everything we build is yours from day one, so if we ever part ways, the system stays. Your team owns it, runs it, and extends it.

The Operating Manual · your firm 5 procedures · installed in your stack

01Thesis screens & target criteriaTargeting

02Owner data & enrichment pipelineData

03Outreach sequences & register guideOutreach

04Succession signal playbookSignals

05Pipeline stages & handling rulesCRM

How the partnership runs

From thesis to a running engine your team owns.

PHASE 01 · SETUP

Thesis & data

Criteria locked, the owner universe built and enriched, disqualifiers agreed so we never argue about what counts.

PHASE 02 · LIVE

Engine live

Outreach running from your domain. First owner conversations typically land inside three weeks.

PHASE 03 · ONGOING

Optimize & scale

Targeting, register, and signals tuned against real replies while coverage climbs, month after month.

CONTINUOUS

Document as we go

Every procedure documented in your stack as it's built, so the engine is yours at every point, not just at the end.

The partnership

A partnership. An engine you own outright.

Every component below, built and installed inside your firm and documented in your own stack as we go. Scope and terms are set per partnership on our fit call.

The Origination Engine

Scoped per partnership · no lock-in · you keep everything

Thesis & target criteria
Owner data & enrichment pipeline
Outreach engine, email & LinkedIn
Succession signal system
Pipeline, CRM & handling rules
Full operating manual in your stack

Guarantee

Owner conversations matching your thesis criteria within 30 days, or you don't pay for the build. You carry none of the risk of finding out whether this works for your mandate.

We run a limited number of installs at a time. Availability is first come, first served.

Before you book

Questions principals ask

Are you a broker or an intermediary?

No. Corveth builds the sourcing system inside your firm. Outreach runs from your name and your domain, every conversation is yours from the first reply, and we take no fee on transactions. We're paid to build and install the engine, nothing else.

How fast do owner conversations start?

The engine typically produces the first conversations inside three weeks, and the 30-day guarantee backs it. Coverage builds from there, month after month, as targeting and signals get tuned.

Do you source LOIs or closed deals?

No. We're accountable for what the system controls: qualified conversations with owners who match your criteria. Valuation, diligence, structuring, and closing stay where they belong, with you.

How do you approach owners?

Discreetly, one at a time, in plain language. No blast volume, no broker-speak, nothing that burns your name in a niche you plan to keep buying in. The register is a peer writing to a peer, which is why owners reply.

What do you need from us?

Your thesis and criteria, access to your CRM and the tools your team works in, and your read on which conversations count. A short kickoff to lock the screens, then it's largely hands-off for you.

What if we part ways?

You keep everything. The full system lives in your stack, documented so your team can run and extend it without us. No retainer, no lock-in.