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Business-for-sale intelligence feed that aggregates cross-platform listings, deduplicates them, enriches each with public financial signals, and delivers a scored deal flow to acquisition entrepreneur

The search fund and micro-PE wave is creating thousands of individual buyers who need institutional-grade deal flow without institutional budgets, and no one has built the Bloomberg terminal for Main Street M&A

Built for Business brokers and M&A marketplace operators.

The angle

Sells to the buyer side of the market as a deal sourcing subscription rather than to brokers, aligning incentives with the fragmented individual acquirer who has no research infrastructure

“I'm looking for someone to collect publicly available business-for-sale listings from multiple business sale websites and compile them into a well-structured ..…”

The receipts — real demand

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7 / 10 · idea quality

demand score 6.8 — the receipts are below

Pain 8
Willingness to pay 6
Feasibility 8
Specificity 8
Audience 7
Competition 7

Why this is a gap

Surfaced from a high-intensity complaint with clear willingness to pay and a specific, reachable audience.

The market

Business brokers and M&A operators need aggregated business-for-sale listings. 0 monthly searches combined with a specific manual task (collecting from multiple sites) suggests this is a niche pain point, not mass demand.

Competition & the opening

Wedge play crowded — win on a narrow angle Moat 3/10 · thin angle Market 6/10 · a real vertical
Crowded market · 7/10 vs Kumo (6Kumo) — cross-platform on-market aggregator covering BizBuySell, BizQuest, BusinessesForSale, and brokerage feeds with deal scoringDealorb — deal sourcing software that indexes and compares cross-platform business-for-sale listingsApify 'business-for-sale-aggregator' actor (shelvick) — open scraper that normalizes and deduplicates software/ecommerce listings across 3+ marketplaces, free/low-costBizBuySell — category-defining incumbent with the largest US listing inventory, saved searches, and basic financial dataFlippa — dominant for online businesses; has built-in financial verification, traffic data enrichment, and deal scoring (Flippa Score)Reddit DIY aggregator (r/Entrepreneurs thread) — community-built tool already aggregating 23 marketplaces, publicly described

Competition is minimal (1/10), but BizBuySell, Flippa, and brokerage networks already list businesses. The gap is aggregation—pulling data from fragmented sources and normalizing it into a single structured feed.

real pricing Kumo (dealorb.ai/blog reference — cross-platform BFS aggregator with BizBuySell, BizQuest, BusinessesForSale + brokerage feeds) $79–$179/mo · BizBuySell (dominant marketplace with its own search/filter/alert tooling) $59-$299/month

What's hard to build

High difficulty (8/10 is harder to build): scraping business listing sites requires maintaining parsers for 10+ different site structures, handling dynamic content and paywalls, and managing legal risk around scraping terms of service. You'll also face constant schema drift as sites redesign.

Why now

Business brokerage portals remain siloed and unstructured; no public API aggregator exists for the M&A sourcing workflow.

How you'd monetize

Usage-based API ($0.50-$2 per listing) + monthly search plan ($99-$399)