Argorant
Argorant
Argorant for M&A Advisory

Every mandate deserves a complete target list, not a partner's rolodex

Long-lists for buy-side mandates and buyer universes for sell-side - built systematically, with verified owner and MD contacts, in the first week of the engagement.

OwnersManaging DirectorsCorporate DevelopmentCFOs

Your market, counted

30,000+
Owners and MDs at German companies
560,000+
Owners, founders and MDs across Europe
44,000+
CEOs and CFOs across the DACH region

Lists your team would actually run

Live platform counts · every card opens the search pre-filtered

Why this market is hard to reach

Sourcing caps your mandate capacity

When target research runs on the partners' networks, every live mandate competes for the same hours and contacts.

Clients judge coverage

A mandate pitch with systematic sourcing across the whole market beats one that depends on who the partners happen to know.

Owner contact data is the bottleneck

Private-company owners are exactly the contacts generic databases get wrong - and the only ones that matter.

How teams run it on Argorant

1
Long-list per mandate

Industry, size and geography matched to the client's acquisition thesis - or the full plausible buyer universe on sell-side.

2
Owner-level contacts, verified

Every shortlisted company comes with its owner or MD, checked before a single approach goes out.

3
Week-one conversations

Discreet outreach starts days after kickoff, so the client sees genuine off-market activity immediately.

  • Verification at export - lists arrive deliverable
  • Counts and previews are always free
  • 184 countries, filterable to city level

Run it your way

In the UI

Filter, preview and export from the browser. Built for operators who want to see their market before they commit.

From code & CLI

REST API and the argorant CLI for pipelines, enrichment jobs and scheduled list refreshes.

Through your AI agent

The MCP connector lets Claude, ChatGPT or your own agent count, search and export on your behalf. Set it up →

Inside the product

Count it. Preview it. Then decide.

Every screen starts with a free count of the whole market and a redacted preview of real matching people - owners included. Credits are only spent when you reveal or export, and every exported email is verified at that moment.

app.argorant.com/search
Industry
Software Development ×Financial Services ×
Country
Germany ×
Seniority
C-Suite
76,784 leadscounts are free
NameEmailStatus
Maren K.
CFO · Nordwind Systems
m•••@nordwind.deReveal
valid
Jonas B.
Managing Director · Brenner & Söhne
j•••@brenner.deReveal
valid
Alice T.
VP Finance · Hafenwerk
a•••@hafenwerk.deReveal
valid
Peter H.
Head of Finance · Vestbau
p•••@vestbau.deReveal
valid
app.argorant.com/exports
DACH - Manufacturing CFOs
Leads · verified at export · skips prior exports
done
5,234 / 5,420 checked live96.6% deliverable
valid · 4,981catch-all · 253invalid removed, not billed
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Exports arrive deliverable.

Live verification runs at download, so the CSV that lands in your sequencer or CRM has just been checked - invalid addresses cost you nothing and never reach a campaign.

Teams building outbound on Argorant

Case study · Palmstone Capital
Off-market deal flow on demand: owner conversations for live mandates in week one
413
Appointments generated in three weeks (data + pilot service combined)
Week 1
First owner conversations after mandate kickoff
Owner-direct
Outreach lands with owners and MDs, not gatekeepers
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Frequently asked questions

How fast can we produce a mandate long-list?

Minutes for the screen, the same day for the contacts. Define industry, size and geography, see the full population count for free, then export the shortlist with verified owner details on the day the mandate signs.

Does this work for sell-side buyer universes too?

Yes. The same screens build the plausible acquirer universe: strategics by sector and size band, sponsors' platform companies in the niche, plus the roles that actually run corporate development.

Does it handle owner-managed companies in their own title language?

Titles are searched as written, so Geschäftsführer, gérant, amministratore delegato and managing director are all reachable, and you can combine them in one screen across markets. That matters in the Mittelstand, where the English title never appears.

Is outreach discreet enough for M&A?

You control every message. Argorant supplies the verified contact; the approach goes out from your own mailbox, one to one, at whatever pace the mandate justifies. Nothing is sent on your behalf.

How do we stop two partners approaching the same company?

Keep segments mutually exclusive at the screen level using size, geography and title exclusions, and keep the suppression list in whatever tool you send from. Argorant holds the segments, your sending stack holds the do-not-contact record.

What about GDPR when we approach owners across the EU?

You export business contact details for named people in a professional role, and you send from your own systems under your own lawful basis, with your own opt-out handling. Argorant is the data layer, not the sender, which keeps the controller decisions where your compliance team wants them.

What does a mandate actually cost in credits?

One credit per deliverable contact, and nothing for addresses that fail verification. A 300-company long-list with one decision-maker each is 300 credits. Counts, filters and previews are free, so the exploratory work before you commit costs nothing at all.

Can we enrich a list the client already gave us?

Yes. The enrich endpoint takes an email address and returns the full profile, or takes a name plus a company domain and returns the verified work email. One credit per match, misses are free, and company-level enrichment costs nothing.

What does the client see?

Coverage. A pitch backed by a counted, systematic target universe beats a rolodex, and the exported list is evidence of work from week one rather than a promise about the partners' network.

Can associates run this without a data subscription each?

Plans carry 1, 3 or 10 seats, and searches, counts and previews are free on every seat. Credits are drawn from one shared pool, so juniors can research all week and the spend only appears when a contact is actually revealed.

Build the long-list for your current mandate - 25 targets free.

No call required. Sign up, run the search, and see your market before you commit to anything.

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Jannik Linke, Founder & CEO, Clementine Media · Germany