Everything Signum does. From first search to signed NDA.
Two ways in — Discover or Qualify — and one workspace where every buyer you find, contact, or hear back from lives together and keeps getting sharper.
No source, no buyer.
Two ways to build your buyer universe
Discover — generate a buyer universe from scratch
Enter a target company and a buyer search geography. Signum scrapes the target's own site (including product pages, not just the homepage), pulls real current search results on M&A and PE activity in that space, and generates candidates across three categories:
- Strategic direct competitors, tech/IP acquirers, and acquihire candidates.
- Adjacent the "hidden buyer" cases: capability-bundlers, distribution-channel buyers, and companies using the acquisition to enter the target's geography.
- Financial PE and growth equity, pushed down to the actual portfolio company that would act as the platform, not just the fund name.
It also reasons at the product level, not just the company as a whole — a buyer often wants one specific capability, not the entire business, so each target is broken down into its distinct products before candidates are generated, and every category is checked against a working list of buyer archetypes instead of free-associating a handful of familiar names.
Generation runs in multiple passes, each one excluding what the previous pass already found, and every buyer goes through a second-pass verification audit before you ever see it.
Same product, same customer base
Different industry, real structural fit
Pushed to the actual portfolio company
Qualify — score a list you already have
Already know your buyer list? Paste it in. Qualify runs the same signal-scanning and scoring engine as Discover, without generating anything new — useful when you're validating a list from a colleague, a prior process, or your own knowledge of the space.
Example Buyer Inc
Halberd Capital
Investment criteria check — catches a mismatch before you do
PE and growth-equity buyers often publish their own acquisition criteria — a minimum EBITDA, a revenue range, a geography focus. Give Signum your company's EBITDA and revenue range, and every relevant buyer's own site gets checked against it: if a fund states it only invests above a threshold your company doesn't meet, that buyer is flagged immediately, right on the card, before you spend time on outreach. This is most valuable in Qualify — when you're checking specific named funds you already have in mind. Deliberately conservative: it only flags a mismatch when a buyer's site states an explicit numeric threshold, never a guess.
Consolidation Radar — the fund already buying in your space
Every buyer-sourcing tool can tell you "which funds invest in this sector." That's a thesis, not urgency. Consolidation Radar goes one step further: it finds companies genuinely comparable to your target — similar size, similar offering, same competitive set — and checks whether a PE or growth-equity fund already owns one of them.
A fund that's already bought your closest comparable isn't just a name with a stated interest in the space — it's plausibly executing a roll-up right now, and your target could be the next bolt-on. Signum is the only tool that surfaces it directly, with the specific comparable and the real search result the ownership claim is grounded in — never inferred, never guessed.
Projects — one workspace per deal, that keeps improving
A persistent buyer list, not a one-off report
Every buyer Discover or Qualify ever finds for a project accumulates in one place instead of resetting with each search. "Find More Buyers" only ever returns genuinely new names — it feeds everything already found back in as exclusions, so a second or fifth search never repeats the first.
Feedback that steers future searches
Mark any buyer a good fit or not, with an optional reason. It's not just a filter — the reasons themselves get folded into the next search's prompt, so the model calibrates what "a good fit" means for that specific deal instead of treating every run as a blank slate. You're always asked before a search uses your feedback, so it's your call each time.
Reach Out — find a contact, draft the email
Pick any buyer in the project and Signum finds a real contact at the company, then drafts a short, specific outreach email referencing the actual reason that buyer is a fit. Contact lookup tries a direct people-search database first and falls back to a targeted web search when that doesn't turn up a result. Nothing is ever sent automatically — you review and send it yourself.
Refresh signals, on demand
Re-score every buyer already in the project against the latest news, hiring, and patent activity — without generating a single new candidate. A full generation pass just to check for updates would be slower and more expensive for no reason, so this is deliberately a separate, lighter action.
A scoring engine built to be skeptical of itself
20 signals, 3 tiers, grounded in real evidence
Every buyer is scanned against Google News, job postings, and recent patent filings, then classified against a 20-signal framework spanning three tiers of strength. The signal set draws on published M&A takeover-prediction research, not invented categories. Every rationale that cites a specific fact links back to the real source it came from — if we can't verify it, we say so plainly instead of dressing up a guess as a fact.