Proprietary deal flow starts with owners nobody else is talking to
Map every company that fits your thesis - industry, size band, geography - and reach the owners and managing directors directly. Before a banker builds the book, before the process starts.
Your market, counted
Live platform counts - run the same screens for free after signup.Lists your team would actually run
Live platform counts · every card opens the search pre-filteredHVAC, plumbing and electrical contractors across the United States, owner-level only. The classic buy-and-build entry screen.
Finance chiefs at 200 to 5,000-employee companies across the six biggest European markets. The diligence-ready door-opener list.
Directors, VPs, C-suite and owners at manufacturing companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland - the proprietary-sourcing hunting ground.
Why this market is hard to reach
Companies that fit the thesis but aren't in any process don't show up in deal databases. Finding them is manual research nobody has time for.
Everything that arrives through bankers is priced like it. Proprietary conversations are the only way to buy well - and they require direct owner access.
Every platform company needs its own bolt-on map, in its own niche, kept current as the buy-and-build progresses.
How teams run it on Argorant
Filter by industry, headcount band, and geography until the screen matches your investment thesis - the full population, not a sample.
Owners, MDs and CFOs with verified contact details, exported in minutes per target list.
Direct, personalized owner conversations for the fund and for every platform's add-on pipeline.
- Verification at export - lists arrive deliverable
- Counts and previews are always free
- 184 countries, filterable to city level
Run it your way
Filter, preview and export from the browser. Built for operators who want to see their market before they commit.
REST API and the argorant CLI for pipelines, enrichment jobs and scheduled list refreshes.
The MCP connector lets Claude, ChatGPT or your own agent count, search and export on your behalf. Set it up →
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/searchExports 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
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Counts, filters and redacted previews are free and unlimited, so you can iterate the screen - industry, headcount band, geography - until it matches the thesis, and see the full population size before spending anything.
Owner, founder and managing-director records are a core focus of the dataset, including the private mid-market where deal targets actually live. That is the segment generic databases are thinnest on. Every contact is verified at the moment you export it.
Deep enough for lower mid-market work, and the same band is available in all 184 countries we cover. As one worked example, owners at 11 to 200-employee companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland count 20,120 (checked 2026-08-20); run the same screen for your own geography and size band before you decide whether the population supports a thesis. Counts are free, so testing a thesis costs nothing.
Saved lists store the filters, not a snapshot, so re-running one reflects today's market: people who moved, companies that crossed a size threshold, new entrants. Contact details are checked live when an export is created, or served from a check made within the last 60 days.
Each platform company gets its own saved screen - niche, size band, region. Re-run it monthly and the bolt-on map stays current as the buy-and-build progresses, without anyone rebuilding the research.
You pay per deliverable contact rather than per seat-year. One credit per verified contact, nothing for addresses that fail verification. A 400-company thesis screen with owner contacts is 400 credits, which sits inside the smallest monthly plan. Counts and previews stay free regardless of plan.
Phone reveals are available from the Pro plan at 10 credits each, charged only when a direct or mobile number is actually returned. Company and HQ numbers carry no credit cost.
The underlying dataset is not exclusive, and no honest provider's is. What is yours is the screen: the thesis, the size band, the exclusions, the sequencing and the relationship. The edge in proprietary sourcing has always been being early and direct, not owning the record.
Yes. The web app, REST API, CLI and MCP connector run against the same account, credits and saved lists, so an associate's agent can maintain target lists programmatically while the deal team works in the UI. Plans include 1, 3 or 10 seats, and the largest adds SSO and export governance.
An evening. Build and count the screen for free, preview the redacted rows to sanity-check fit, then export the shortlist with verified owner contacts. The first 25 targets cost nothing.
No call required. Sign up, run the search, and see your market before you commit to anything.
