Private Equity
Proprietary deal flow for every thesis in the fund.
Equitle’s agents map the whole market for a platform or add-on thesis, research who owns each company and why they might sell, and run the letters, emails and calls that put your deal team in front of them first.
212
Companies fit
184
Owners identified
171
Verified contacts
46
Likely to sell
HVAC services, Southeast
Ranked by fit with your thesis
Company
Revenue
Employees
Owner
Contact
Fit
Coastal Air Mechanical
Charleston, SC
$14M
86
Dale Whitaker
Age 67
Piedmont Comfort Systems
Greenville, SC
$9M
54
Ray Hollins
Age 61
Bayline Heating & Air
Savannah, GA
$18M
112
Sandra Pike
Age 58
Tidewater HVAC Services
Norfolk, VA
$6M
38
Gene Castillo
Age 64
Weave Growth
Weave Growth0×
More owner meetings a month than traditional BD teams.
What happened
For eight months we ran a traditional BD workflow in a shadow beta and compared it with anonymized Equitle customer campaigns. Equitle surfaced 18.5 interested owners a month to the traditional team’s 11.5, and more of them agreed to meet: 21.6% against 17.4%. Together that came to 4.0 owner meetings a month against 2.0.
Read the studyOne system from thesis to first meeting.
See the whole market in hours.
Every company that fits your thesis, sized and mapped.
20+ data providers searched at once
ML and AI web search finds companies databases miss
Revenue, headcount and ownership on every company
Every company scored against your thesis
HVAC services, Southeast
212 companies fit your thesis
Company
Revenue
Score
Coastal Air Mechanical
Charleston, SC
$14M
Piedmont Comfort Systems
Greenville, SC
$9M
Bayline Heating & Air
Savannah, GA
$18M
Tidewater HVAC Services
Norfolk, VA
$6M
Add-on sourcing for every platform at once.
Each portfolio company gets its own live pipeline.
A separate thesis for every platform
New fits surfaced every week
Meetings tracked platform by platform
Add-on programs
One thesis per platform
Summit Comfort
HVAC services
6
meetings
Northline Dental Partners
Dental practices
11
meetings
Harbor Veterinary Group
Veterinary clinics
4
meetings
Know which owners are ready to sell.
Age, tenure, successor and court records on every owner, each with a source.
Owner age, tenure and successor
Intent score built from public signals
Court records, local press and company bios
A source linked on every fact
Dale Whitaker
Owner, Coastal Air Mechanical
67
Age
31 yrs
Owned
None
Successor
Turned 67, no successor named
Company bioTwo local peers sold in 2025
Local pressReach owners where they actually answer.
Letters, email, calls and LinkedIn, sent under your firm’s name.
Letters in your own cloned handwriting
Printed, stamped and mailed for you
Email, calls and LinkedIn in the same sequence
Replies and meetings logged automatically
Handwritten letter
To Dale Whitaker · Coastal Air Mechanical
Letter
Dear Dale,
Thirty-one years of keeping Charleston cool is no small thing. I came across Coastal Air while looking at the best service companies in the Southeast, and your team kept coming up.
We partner with founder-owned businesses like yours and help them grow without losing what made them work. If you ever want to talk about what comes next, I would love to hear how you built it.
Warmly,
Michael
HARBORLINE CAPITAL
200 Meeting St
Charleston, SC
ROI calculator
Sourcing cost a year
Traditional team
$360,000
Equitle
$90,000
Qualified owner meetings a year
Traditional team
36
Equitle
72
Cost per qualified owner meeting
Traditional team
$10,000
Equitle
$1,250
What PE teams ask us first.
Those are databases: they list companies and leave the rest to your team. Equitle runs the whole origination process for you. It finds the companies, researches each owner, verifies their contact details and runs the outreach in your name, guided by your thesis and your decisions. You get deal flow, not another platform to log into and pay for.
Equitle is built for the lower middle market, including family businesses with a few million in revenue and very little online footprint. Those are the companies databases miss and bankers have not reached yet.
Yes. Each platform gets its own thesis, target list, research and outreach history, so add-on programs never mix. Your operating partners and portfolio CEOs can see the pipeline for their platform.
Yes. Letters carry your team’s signature, emails come from inboxes set up for your firm, and calls show your number. You can approve every touch before it goes out, or let it run on its own.
Describe the thesis and Hawk starts returning ranked companies the same day. Owner research and contact details fill in as it works through the list, and the first owner conversations usually follow within the first few weeks.
Review the list, star or cut companies, and approve the outreach. Most teams spend an hour or two a week on it. Every decision you make also trains the fit model, so each list is sharper than the last.
Yes. Lists, owner research and contact details export, and Equitle connects to CRMs and other systems through supported APIs and MCP integrations, so your existing pipeline stays part of the workflow.
