Prepared for Meridian Search · Example
Your buy box, sized.
Estimates from public statistical data — government business counts, licence records, published industry rates — not a register of every company. Close enough to plan around. Anything inferred rather than counted is marked as inferred.
Businesses that fit your buy box, counted
Mechanical contractors in the stated geography that clear the technician floor and revenue band.
1,284
How many clear your financing
Share that clears the stated leverage and equity cheque, from published industry margin bands.
412Inferred
Who else is active in the same shape
Buyers and processes already working this industry and size, from recorded listings and outreach.
7
Where deals in this industry tend to fall apart
The failure that shows up most often after a first conversation, before a letter of intent.
Licensing
The one criterion to loosen, and what it opens up
Dropping the revenue floor is the single change that adds the most names that still clear the rest of the box.
+840
What can't be verified from outside the business
Customer concentration, add-backs and true margin are not visible from public records.
MarginInferred