UK Acquisition Intelligence — Early Access

Find UK businesses
worth buying before
anyone else does.

ProspectMap analyses every active UK registered company, assembles deep intelligence on each prospect — directors, financials, ownership, and succession risk — then ranks them with AI. Your acquisition pipeline, built automatically.

// UK registered companies only. No credit card. No commitment.

6M+ UK companies screened

~130 Data points per prospect

0–100 AI acquisition score

// The problem

Manual sourcing is
broken by design.

M&A teams spend weeks doing what a machine can do in an hour. The opportunity isn't in working harder — it's in looking at the right companies first.

6 million needles, one haystack

The UK company register lists every active business. Finding SME acquisition targets within it — filtering by geography, size, and sector — is a full-time job before any real diligence begins.

The motivated seller is invisible

The best deals come from owners who haven't decided to sell yet: aging sole directors, decade-long tenures, no obvious successor. These signals exist in public data — but nobody is reading them systematically.

Data is everywhere, insight is nowhere

UK company filings, web presence, news mentions, online ratings, director networks — all public, all useful, never combined. Research that should take minutes takes days.

Scoring is subjective and inconsistent

Without a systematic scoring framework, deal teams apply different criteria each time. The result is inconsistent prioritisation and missed opportunities hiding in plain sight.

// How it works

Four stages from
register to ranked list.

A fully automated pipeline. You configure the criteria; ProspectMap does the work.

Filter

Define your target universe from the full UK company register. Filter by geography, sector, company size, age, and filing health to focus only on the businesses that meet your criteria.

Enrich

Automatically gather deep intelligence on each company: director profiles, ownership structure, insolvency history, outstanding debt, filing records, and financial figures drawn from official filings.

Discover

Find and verify each company's online presence — website, social media profiles, and recent press coverage — so you arrive at every conversation fully briefed.

Score

AI scores every company against your acquisition strategy. Choose your scoring mode — succession-led, bolt-on, distressed, PE, or asset — and the weights adapt to what matters for your buyer thesis.

// Intelligence signals

What ProspectMap
actually looks for.

No generic databases. Every signal is assembled fresh from authoritative public sources for each prospect on your list.

⏳

Succession risk

Director age, tenure length, sole-director flag, and absence of an obvious successor. A 68-year-old who founded the business and hasn't resigned anyone in 20 years is a motivated seller who doesn't know it yet.

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Director network

Every director's full appointment history across the UK register. Are they serial entrepreneurs with other active roles? Is this their only company? Network mapping reveals ownership intent and exit likelihood.

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Financial signals

Extracted directly from officially filed accounts: turnover, net assets, profit/loss, total assets, and employee count. Where only summary accounts are available, debt patterns and asset levels fill the gap.

⚠️

Risk flags

Insolvency history, liquidation flags, outstanding charges, lender names, registered office disputes, overdue filings — all surfaced automatically. Bad news shouldn't reach diligence.

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Web & social presence

Verified company website, match confidence score, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter URLs — extracted from the company's own pages, not directory listings.

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News & reputation

Recent press mentions with headlines and dates, plus online star ratings and review counts — real-world reputation signals that tell you what the market thinks before you pick up the phone.

// AI acquisition scoring

Every company ranked.
Every decision justified.

80 – 100 Pursue Highly attractive — act immediately

60 – 79 Investigate Strong prospect — dig deeper

40 – 59 Monitor Moderate interest — watch for changes

0 – 39 Skip Significant concerns or low fit

"Sole director, aged 71, incorporated 1994. No succession. Turnover c.£1.4M, net assets clean. Rated 4.7★ across 80 reviews. Website verified. No insolvency history. Pursue."

Claude AI evaluates each company against every signal ProspectMap collects — financial health, succession indicators, web presence, risk flags, and director network — to produce a scored narrative for every prospect.

The output isn't a score alone. It's a structured acquisition briefing: key positives, key concerns, a recommended action, and a buyer-specific assessment narrative. Your analyst's first call, automated.

// Buyer-configured scoring

Five acquisition strategies.
One configurable engine.

Every buyer has a different thesis. Set your scoring mode once — ProspectMap weights every signal to match your strategy.

succession

Succession-led

Owner-managed businesses approaching a natural exit. Director age, sole-director status, and long tenure are the primary signals — finding the motivated seller before they know they're selling.

Primary weightSuccession risk · 35%

bolt_on

Bolt-on acquisition

Businesses with revenue, customers, and operational scale worth acquiring. Succession signals are irrelevant here — the business is the asset, not the owner.

Primary weightFinancial scale · 40%

distressed

Distressed & turnaround

Undervalued businesses with underlying revenue or assets. Distress signals are expected — the question is whether the problem is structural or addressable with new ownership.

Primary weightUnderlying quality · 35%

pe_investment

PE & growth capital

Profit margin quality, management depth, scalability indicators, and a clean deal structure. A sole director approaching retirement is a key-person risk here, not an exit opportunity.

Primary weightFinancial performance · 45%

asset_acquisition

Asset acquisition

The buyer wants the underlying assets — property, fleet, plant, or a trading name — not the business as a going concern. Balance sheet quality and encumbrance position are everything.

Primary weightBalance sheet quality · 45%

// Who it's for

Built for buyers who
move with precision.

ProspectMap is for anyone whose edge depends on finding the right company before the wrong competitor does.

pe_investment mode

Private Equity & Search Funds

Deploy capital efficiently into the UK mid-market. Build a repeatable acquisition pipeline without the manual overhead. Systematic succession-risk scoring surfaces off-market opportunities your competitors aren't seeing.

Filter by sector, UK geography, size, and succession risk simultaneously

Ranked output sorted by AI score — start at the top

Fresh intelligence every month as new filings land

bolt_on mode

Corporate Development

Trade buyers seeking UK bolt-ons need to cast a wide net without burying the team in research. ProspectMap maps your adjacencies and scores every candidate against your criteria.

Competitor and adjacent-market mapping at scale

Director network reveals ownership structure before outreach

Financial signals from official filings without paying for data feeds

all scoring modes

M&A Advisors & Brokers

Offer clients a live pipeline of qualified prospects in their sector and geography. Differentiate on insight depth rather than Rolodex size.

White-label ready output in CSV and XLSX

News monitoring surfaces inbound deal triggers

Online ratings add a reputational layer to financial screening

Find UK businesses worth buying before anyone else does.

Manual sourcing is broken by design.