M&A and growth intelligence

Who it's for

Corporate development and strategy leaders

You own buy-side opportunity identification and initial deal execution at a large company, and you need sector depth you don't have in-house.

CEOs and chief product officers

You run a growth-stage company and you're weighing an acquisition, a channel partnership, or how to position the business for an eventual sale.

Companies without a corporate development team

Most auto retail software companies can't justify a full-time corp dev function. We provide one on a fractional basis: senior operators who assess opportunities, run the process and bring the network, for as long as the work needs.

What we do

Build, buy/sell, partner analysis

Before any target gets serious attention, we test all three paths against the same opportunity. The answer is often a combination: buy the core, partner the edges, build the differentiator.

Landscape mapping with AutoScapes

For every category in play: who competes, how critical it is to the dealer, how it's monetized, and what breaks if you swap it out. About AutoScapes

Market sizing

We move from total market to serviceable market to a penetration model tied to real go-to-market capacity, so you get a number a board can underwrite.

Target screening

Candidates are ranked on strategic fit, technology, growth, integration potential and ownership. We write down why each one is a pass, so the team doesn't re-litigate dead options.

Expert validation

Data shows market structure. Operators who have used, sold or built these products tell us what the data can't, like the channel partner whose field team would never sell your product.

Qualitative and quantitative research

Expert interviews, our transcript library, licensed market data and primary research, combined into one view.

Introductions

We often network clients directly into conversations with targets, partners and decision-makers.

Buy- and sell-side positioning

For acquirers, we sharpen the thesis and the case for each target. For smaller companies, we look at your business the way a strategic acquirer would and help you tell that story in the language corporate development teams use.

What you get