Market Research
Know the whole market before you pick a target.
Describe a thesis and Equitle sizes it: how many companies there are, where they sit, who owns them and how fragmented the market is, from federal industry data and a live search of the web.
Commercial HVAC service, Southeast
6 states · federal counts plus a live web search
1,284
Companies
71%
Founder-owned
46%
Owner over 55
$7M
Median revenue
Top metros
Atlanta, GA
142
Charlotte, NC
98
Nashville, TN
87
Tampa, FL
81
0%
More companies found than private market databases
0+
Data providers searched at once
0/7
Sourcing that never pauses for a live deal
Every company, on one map.
Each dot is lit by how many companies in your thesis sit near it, so you can see at a glance which metros are crowded and which are wide open.
Commercial HVAC service · 9,840 companies
Founder-owned$3–20MFewer
More companies
Densest metros
Dallas–Fort Worth
612
New York
588
Atlanta
541
Los Angeles
497
Houston
463
Chicago
431
Least covered
Boise, Tulsa, Omaha
Few companies, no PE-backed platform yet
From a question to a sized, owned, watched market.
Size any market in minutes.
Ask about a market in plain words. Equitle counts every company in it, by size, place and ownership.
Federal establishment counts for every industry
By state, metro and county
Headcount and payroll to estimate revenue
A live web search for companies the codes miss
Commercial HVAC, Southeast
2,651 establishments in 6 states
Companies by size
1–9 employees
1,840
10–49
612
50–99
141
100+
58
See who owns the market.
The market split by ownership and company size, so you can see how fragmented it is and where platforms already sit.
Founder-owned, family, PE-backed and corporate
Split by company size
How much the largest players hold
Platforms already in the market
Who owns the market
2,176 commercial HVAC companies, Southeast
Founder-owned, 1–9 employees
1,310
Founder-owned, 10–49
438
Second generation
274
PE-backed
96
Corporate
58
See businesses the day they list.
A daily brief of the businesses newly listed for sale that match your thesis, each with why it matches.
New broker listings matched to your thesis
Only listings you have not seen before
A reason for every match
In your inbox each morning, with a weekly recap
Daily brief
HVAC services, Southeast
Commercial HVAC contractor, Columbia, SC
Today
Mechanical service company, Macon, GA
Today
Refrigeration repair, Mobile, AL
Yesterday
9 new listings matched this week
Mon
Everything in Market Research.
Plain-words theses
Describe the market the way you would to a colleague. Hawk turns it into industry codes, geography and size ranges.
Industry sizing
Establishment counts, headcount and payroll for every industry code, down to the county.
Fragmentation
How the market splits by company size and ownership, so you can see where a roll-up has room.
Market maps
Every company on one map with layers for ownership, owner age and fit.
Daily brief
Businesses newly listed for sale that match your thesis, every morning.
Exports
Take any market list into a spreadsheet or your CRM with the filters you applied.
Questions about Market Research
Company counts start from federal establishment data for each industry code. Equitle then searches the live web and more than 20 data providers to find the actual companies, including the small, owner-run ones that never show up in databases.
Yes. Describe it in plain words, like “commercial kitchen hood cleaning”. Hawk searches the web for companies that do it rather than relying on a code alone.
The web search runs when you ask, so results reflect the web that day. The daily brief adds businesses newly listed for sale that match your thesis each morning.
Not today. Market sizing uses US federal data, and Equitle is built around US companies and owners.
The whole market, mapped for you
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