Christi Loucks, DealBuff founder

A better way to source off-market deals.

We run targeted outreach campaigns that put you in front of business owners who are ready to have a conversation.

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$14T

in business value is transitioning hands over the next decade. 90% of these companies are invisible to traditional deal databases.

The acquirers who win are the ones who know how to find them. Not through marketplaces. Through systems, discipline, and relationships.

The Reality

Most searchers burn months building infrastructure instead of building relationships.

Contact lists. Email domains. Deliverability. Copy. Follow-up sequences. The operational load of proprietary outreach pulls you away from what actually matters: having conversations with business owners who might sell.

Meanwhile, the few searchers who do get in front of owners are doing it with generic templates and spray-and-pray volume. The owners can tell. And they tune it out.

The deals that actually close start differently. They start with targeted, human outreach. With discipline and systems. With someone keeping things moving when the middle gets slow.

DealBuff team networking at industry event

The Challenge

Why most proprietary searches stall.

01

Outreach gets ignored

Owners are flooded with generic cold emails from buyers and brokers. Without precision targeting and a human touch, your message disappears.

02

Infrastructure eats your time

Building lists, managing domains, handling deliverability. The operational load of outreach pulls you away from what matters.

03

Without focus, nothing lands

Spraying emails at a broad list isn't a strategy. The deals that close start with intentional, targeted conversations.

How We Help

Three engagement levels.

Pick the level of partnership that fits where you are. Each tier builds on the one before it. We help on off-market and brokered deals.

Search-as-a-Service

Outreach engine.

We run targeted outreach campaigns. You take every owner conversation. The system that gets you in front of business owners ready to talk.

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Guided Search

Outreach + advisor.

The full outreach engine plus an experienced advisor at every decision the deal turns on. Built for first-time and self-funded searchers.

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Full Service Search

Done for you.

A complete search team, led by you. We run the operational load. You stay focused on thesis, owner conversations, and the decisions only you can make.

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Other Ways To Engage

The DealBuff team

Who We Are

Built by people who have actually done this.

Every member of our leadership team has personally acquired a business. We've done the outreach, had the long conversations, and lived through the slow middle where timing matters and nothing feels urgent. That experience is what shaped this program.

DealBuff exists because we built the system we wish we'd had. It's not theory or advice from the sidelines. It's the structure we needed while we were buying. We're a US-based team headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

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1,000's
Owners Engaged
50%
Interest Rate
$75M+
Businesses Teed Up
80+
Industries Covered

National Reach

Sourcing across every market that matters.

We run targeted campaigns coast to coast. Whether you're focused on a single metro or casting a wider net across industries and regions, our outreach infrastructure is built to cover it.

DealBuff national coverage map

What our clients say

★★★★★
Instead of spending hours sorting through contact lists, managing our email infrastructure, and trying to get in front of business owners, DealBuff brings the conversations to us. It's a huge unlock.
Billy
Traditional Search Fund
★★★★★
The team delivered quality leads that turned into relationships with multiple strong businesses we hope to acquire for the long term. The process was smooth.
Patrick
Defense & National Security Services
★★★★★
Christi, Chris, and the team at DealBuff are a joy to work with. They are organized, professional, and communicative. Most importantly, they deliver on what they promise. I strongly recommend that any searcher looking to do direct outreach have a conversation with them.
Dan
Self-Funded Searcher

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