Deal origination for private equity roll-ups

The best companies to buy are not for sale.
We get their owners on the phone.

Autopilott finds founder-owned businesses that fit your buy box, opens the conversation, qualifies the owner, and books the meeting with your deal team. You walk in first, before the bankers, before the auction.

10
Meetings, Guaranteed
Qualified, off-market owner meetings in your first ninety days.
5min
Owner to Phone
Every inquiry gets a call while the owner is still at their desk.
0
Brokered Processes
No listings, no banker decks, no auctions. Owner-direct only.
What we actually do

We are not a data platform, a marketplace, or a listing service. Autopilott is a done-for-you origination practice. Our team runs the entire origination effort end to end, in your name, and turns private owners into acquisition meetings on your calendar.

Your team never writes a cold email, never chases a callback, never builds a sourcing function. You set the thesis. We deliver the owners who fit it.

Thesis in. Meetings out.

Three movements, run entirely by us, measured on one number: qualified owner meetings booked with your deal team.

I.

Find the owners

Source

We calibrate your buy box (verticals, geography, size, EBITDA), then go where owners actually are, not where deals are listed. Valuation-first advertising that owners engage with privately, high-intent search, and direct outreach that opens with a number: a valuation we’ve already run on their business.

II.

Have the first conversation

Qualify

The moment an owner raises a hand, our team is calling within minutes, not days, using AI to help us move fast. Every reply gets worked, every question answered, every owner screened against your criteria. Curiosity gets filtered out. Intent gets through.

III.

Put them on your calendar

Book

Qualified owners book directly with your partners, arriving with revenue, motivation, and timeline already in hand. Owners who aren’t ready yet enter a patient, months-long nurture, so when timing turns, yours is the only call they take.

The engine, proven in the field.

Autopilott's origination systems were built and proven on live revenue operations before being aimed at acquisitions.

01

A pipeline that filled itself, without adding a salesperson.

A high-value operator needed steady conversations with decision-makers at a volume no team could reach by hand. We took ownership of the front of their funnel and ran it inside the systems they already worked in, so their people stopped prospecting and started taking meetings.

Zero
New headcount
Lift
In lead conversion
In-stack
Inside their own systems
02

New demand and a forgotten customer list, both turned into revenue.

A multi-location operator was sitting on two untapped assets: people discovering them for the first time, and years of past customers nobody had spoken to since. We built one system that worked both and carried every lead through to a confirmed booking, without anyone on their team chasing it.

Both
New and past customers
Every lead
Carried through to booking
One system
Front door to booked job
03

Leads they already paid for, finally answered in time.

Operators buying leads were losing them to whoever responded first. We closed the gap between an inquiry and a real conversation down to minutes, at every hour, so the leads they were already paying for turned into booked appointments instead of voicemails.

Minutes
Inquiry to conversation
24/7
Nights and weekends covered
Zero
Extra staff hired

The same machinery, now pointed at one job: putting business owners in front of your fund.

Our guarantee

Ten qualified meetings in ninety days.
Or you don’t pay.

A definite term

Ninety days, one number, no open-ended retainer. The engagement continues past day ninety only if the pipeline has earned it.

Your name on everything

Ad accounts, domains, lists, and the pipeline itself are built in your name and stay with you. We operate them; you own them.

We call, you close

Our team handles outreach and screening at scale, with AI helping us move faster. Your partners handle the meetings that matter. Nothing important is left unattended.

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Discretion, by design

Owners stay invisible

Neutral branding, no retargeting, unmarked subject lines. An owner’s employees and customers never see a signal that a conversation is happening.

Nothing goes out unapproved

Every ad, every message, and every new engagement gets a human check before it reaches an owner. You’re never surprised by what went out in your name.

One client per buy box

Your pipeline is never pooled or resold. Dedicated infrastructure, isolated data, and targets that go to you alone.

Fair questions.

Are these actually off-market?+
Yes. We reach owners before they’ve hired a banker or entered a process. Most haven’t spoken to another buyer at all. You’re typically the first institutional conversation in the room, which is where proprietary pricing lives.
What counts as a “qualified” meeting?+
An owner who fits your stated buy box (vertical, geography, size, EBITDA range), has confirmed genuine interest in a transaction conversation, and shows up. Curiosity clicks and tire-kickers don’t count toward the ten.
Who is on the phone with owners?+
First contact and screening are handled by our team, using AI to help us respond quickly and follow up consistently. The acquisition conversation itself belongs to your deal team. We fill the calendar, you run the meeting.
What does it cost?+
A one-time build fee and a fixed monthly fee across the ninety-day term. Ad spend runs through accounts you own, at a budget you control. No percentage of deal value, no success fees, no surprises. If we miss the ten, your management fees are refunded in full. We’ll walk you through exact numbers on the first call.
How fast can we start?+
The system is templated and hardened. It’s calibration to your buy box, not a ground-up build. Most engagements go from signed to live outreach in the first two weeks of the ninety-day term.
Before you book

What happens on the call.

Show us what your team sends owners right now. Emails, LinkedIn messages, call scripts, anything you have.

We’ll tell you why it isn’t working. It’s almost always one of three things: the emails are going to spam, the message sounds like a broker, or nobody follows up fast enough.

If it is working, we’ll tell you that, and you don’t need us.

Thirty minutes. No deck, no pitch.

Autopilott

Walk in first.

You’ll leave knowing exactly what to fix.

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