AI deal origination for private equity
Find the companies nobody else is bidding for.
PE-CC is a research team that never stops hunting. It searches the open web and the statutory registers for founder- and family-owned businesses that fit your mandate, scores each one against your own rubric, and tells you which owners are most likely to take the call this quarter — with a source behind every claim.
The demo is the full application, running on a sample healthcare universe. Need the password?
The dashboard, with illustrative figures. Every other screen below is the demo as it stands.
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- scoring dimensions, weighted by you
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- run types, from discovery to thesis
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- national registers read directly
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- AI cost when you run it locally
Hunt, don't screen
A database sells the same names to everyone holding a subscription. PE-CC searches for investment characteristics — recurring and compliance-driven revenue, specialist niches with real barriers, fragmented markets — and most of what it surfaces has never appeared on a bidder's list.
Evidence, not assertions
Every financial figure is marked reported or estimated, with the methodology beside it. Every claim carries its sources. Every attractive target gets an explicit case against it, because the expensive mistake in origination is believing your own thesis.
Timing, not just fit
A perfect company you cannot buy is worth nothing. Director ages and tenure come from the register, sponsor hold clocks from ownership filings, and a timing score combines them — so the call list is ranked by fit × timing.
From mandate to Monday-morning call list
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Set the mandate
Size box, cheque, geography, sectors and the weight each scoring dimension carries. Every search, score and alert reads from it — switch profiles and the whole application follows.
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Hunt
Discovery runs work through named hunting grounds, remember what they have already covered and bring back candidates you have not seen, each with sources, ownership and estimated financials.
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Judge
Accepted companies are enriched, scored on eight dimensions and argued against. Filed accounts replace estimates as soon as the register publishes them.
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Call
Director ages, tenure, sponsor hold periods and registry events become a timing score. Fit × timing gives the call list; cadence tracking keeps it honest.
Inside PE-CC
Screens from the demo organisation, which runs the same engine, registers and scoring as a live firm.
A call list ranked by fit × timing
The companies worth calling this week sit at the top: strong fit, and an owner whose age, tenure or ownership says the timing is live. High-fit names that are not ready yet move to a nurture list with a cadence, not a spreadsheet tab.
A dossier behind every name
Ownership from the register, founders and next generation, reported or estimated financials with their methodology, and a score broken down dimension by dimension — each with the reasoning a partner would ask for.
Hunting grounds that remember
Market maps turn a thesis into a territory: a niche brief, the registers and directories worth mining, SIC codes for a full register sweep, and a coverage ledger so the next run starts where the last one stopped.
Everything the loop needs
From defining the mandate to the printable pack on Monday morning. Each stage below is a part of the application, not a roadmap.
Define the mandate
Who is investing and where they hunt. Everything downstream reads from here.
Firm profiles
WHO is investing: each profile is a complete mandate — size box, equity cheque, geography, sector focus, scoring weights, engine choices and its own company universe. Switch profiles and the whole app follows; presets (including the original DNA) can be instantiated, disabled or edited without losing data.
Market maps
WHERE you hunt within the mandate: named search territories with a niche brief, signal sources, SIC codes and a cross-run coverage ledger so every discovery run continues where the last stopped. Maps with SIC codes can sweep the entire Companies House register and run a succession radar over the results.
Where the facts come from
Statutory registers
Companies House for UK profiles, officers, PSC ownership, filing history and iXBRL accounts. Norway, France, Finland, Czechia and Ireland read directly — Norway and France down to officers with dates of birth and filed turnover, which is what makes succession signals work outside the UK.
Public records
Contracts Finder and Find a Tender for UK awards, TED across the EU, The Gazette for insolvency and restructuring, the FCA and sector regulators for authorisation, and the GLEIF index for direct and ultimate parents.
Stated honestly
A register that does not publish directors is reported as unknown, never as a company with none. Countries with no open register say so, and name what was used instead. No number arrives without its provenance.
See it working on a real universe
The demo runs the same engine, registers and scoring as a live firm — on a sample set of companies. Nothing to install.
