§
Origination
We do not wait for deal flow.
Most firms describe origination as a network. Ours is an instrument. This page says exactly what it is, what it holds, and what it cannot do.
- 162,191,371
- company domains identified worldwide
- 25,288,816
- company websites read in full and classified
- 48,000,000
- confirmed active and contactable today
- 190+
- countries covered, including the ones commercial databases thin out
Figures as at 19 August 2026. The domain count is the count of distinct company domains in the master table, after removal of parked and trap domains. It counts companies identified, not companies verified as currently trading: the active count is the one confirmed by mail-exchange and DNS resolution, and it is the smaller of the two.
§ 01
What it holds
Four layers, built over three years.
01
The universe
162 million distinct company domains worldwide, assembled from open web crawl, public registries and mail-exchange records. Roughly 48 million are confirmed active by mail-exchange and DNS resolution today. Be precise about that difference: identified is not the same as reachable.
02
The reading
25,288,816 company websites read in full and classified: what the company does, for whom, at what apparent scale, and whether it presents as founder- or family-held. The classification comes from what the company writes about itself, not from a code chosen once at incorporation and never revisited.
03
The contact path
Email addresses observed on the domain, telephone numbers and mailing addresses where published, and the sending infrastructure to reach them — our own domains and IP space, so outreach never touches your firm’s domain reputation.
04
The semantic index
Vector search across the company descriptions, so a thesis expressed in prose — “founder-owned industrial services companies doing scheduled maintenance for utilities” — returns companies whose own words match, including those no sector code would surface.
§ 02
How an order uses it
01
Translate the buy box
We write your criteria as a set of screens and, separately, as prose. Both are used: the screens catch the obvious, the prose catches the ones the screens miss.
02
Size the universe
Before outreach, we tell you how many companies fit. If the answer is forty, we say so, and you decide whether to tighten or widen. You give us the names to leave alone — portfolio companies, live conversations, competitors you would not touch.
03
Build and enrich
Each company is enriched with what an investment committee actually discusses: what it does, approximate scale, who owns it, whether it presents as founder-owned, and whether there are signs of a process already underway.
04
Qualify and introduce
Every response is worked by phone. An introduction reaches you only when the owner has stated, in writing or on a recorded call, that they would sell or would meet about a sale — and the statement travels with it. You never receive the list; you receive the owner.
05
Reach the owner
Physical letter, email, telephone and professional network — sent in the firm’s name, on an undisclosed-principal basis, from infrastructure we operate and warm.
§ 03
Channels
Four ways to reach an owner who is not looking for you.
01
Physical mail
A letter to a founder-owned business still gets opened by the founder. It is the highest-response channel in this market and almost nobody uses it at any scale, because almost nobody can. We can, and it is included in the mandate.
02
Electronic mail
From our own domains and dedicated IP space, authenticated, with volumes managed for deliverability. Your firm’s domain is never used or exposed.
03
Telephone
Direct contact with owners and decision-makers to confirm interest, establish timing, and understand what would need to be true for a conversation to be worth their time.
04
Professional network
LinkedIn and equivalents, to reach the decision-maker when the other three channels do not land.
§ 04
The limits
What the platform is not.
It is not a source of financial statements — a great many private companies publish nothing beyond an abridged filing, and some publish nothing at all, and we do not pretend otherwise. It is not a substitute for diligence. It does not tell you whether an owner wants to sell; only a conversation does that. And it does not replace judgement about which of the companies it surfaces is worth an approach. That decision is made by a person, and on your mandate it is made by the principal.