Stop fighting over picked-over listings. Mainferret ferrets out the owners who are ready to sell but haven't told anyone — and proves which businesses are actually worth buying, from 2.17 million real SBA loan outcomes.
Owners who took an SBA loan 16–26 years ago are now at prime exit age — and many bought the business with that loan, so they already know the playbook. We own that signal nationwide, fused with the one dataset that reveals which businesses actually survive.
Query any geography × industry × size × loan-vintage. Get exit-age owners with mailing addresses, ranked by sell-readiness — before they list.
Real default rates by industry and owner profile from 2.17M outcomes. Know the safe sectors from the landmines before you spend a dollar.
Tell us your skills, geography, and risk tolerance. We rank where you add the most value for the most reward — personalized and explainable.
THE FULL LIFECYCLE
SBA-data succession signal + enrichment → ranked off-market targets and a direct-mail list.
Survival truth by industry and owner profile. Acquisition fails at less than half the startup rate.
Ingest your edges and interests → personalized theses, sectors, and a next-move origination plan.
One-click company + owner dossier: registration, licenses, litigation, reviews, news — with AI risk flags.
Seller uploads files once, encrypted. AI normalizes SDE, flags concentration, drafts a QoE-lite report.
After you buy: benchmarked dashboards, covenant monitoring, and AI tools — on a plan that grows with you.
THE MOAT
SBA outcomes are the success/failure label. We layer on owner identity, distress, demand, and — where public — real financials, to score every business on sell-readiness, acquirability, and estimated performance.
SBA FOIA · Census survival data · Medicare cost reports · USAspending · state registration & licenses · UCC/liens/litigation · Google/Yelp trends · web & ad signals.
PRICING
Enterprise sourcing tools cost $20–100k/yr. Mainferret starts free.
Know the market first.
Run a real off-market search.
For sponsors & holdcos.
White-label & data feeds.
"We're running our own search on it — environmental & permitting firms across the Mid-Atlantic. It finds the owners brokers never see."
Free to start · no card required