Pricing

It starts with a $100 pilot. It scales to your budget.

Every engagement begins with a $100 pilot: we configure the full screening run for your vertical, deliver the first 10 qualified companies (the $100 credited toward a full run), and project the yield of the complete run. Only then do you pick a plan — sized by data, not by guesswork.

$100
pilot — first 10 companies
$999
smallest paid plan
custom
any scope in between
Priced against real infrastructure: Acquisition Universe runs on Alpha Quantum's categorization platform — a leading provider of website categorization & offline databases, trusted by 300+ clients. Operating the 120M-domain engine runs $80k–$110k/month; you access it for a fraction.
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$100
Step one — always

The $100 Pilot — 10 qualified companies

We set up the complete run for your vertical — your thesis, our 15-signal baseline, your custom signals — and stop it as soon as 10 companies clear the criteria with confirmed evidence. You get those 10 with full signal transcripts, plus a measured projection of how many qualified companies the full run would deliver, and quotes for every scope option below. How the pilot works →

10
companies, credited to a full run
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After the pilot

Plans for every scope

Every plan includes the same engine: the standard 15-signal framework, vertical-specific signals, and custom signals you define. Plans differ on exactly two dimensions — the size of the vertical (TAM) the run covers, and the number and complexity of signals extracted and verified per company. You select the plan after completing the pilot, when the projection tells you exactly what the full run holds. Most clients end up on a custom scope — the projection makes it easy to buy precisely the slice you need.

Most popular

Custom scope

quoted
after your $100 pilot

Exactly the candidates you need

  • Any TAM slice — a % of the projected yield or a fixed candidate count
  • Any signal set: standard + your custom signals
  • Ranked delivery — strongest fits first
  • Priced to the budget you name
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Starter

$999
per run

Small TAM, lean signal set

  • Vertical up to ~25K domains
  • 15-signal standard framework
  • Up to 2 custom signals
  • Ranked CSV with evidence quotes
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Growth

$1,999
per run

Mid-size TAM, richer signals

  • Vertical up to ~100K domains
  • Standard + vertical-specific signal pack
  • Up to 5 custom signals
  • Documented exclusion log
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Proof project

from €4,900
per thesis

Larger TAM, full thesis screening

  • Vertical up to ~250K domains
  • Standard + vertical pack + up to 8 custom signals
  • Sample report incl. exclusions
  • One custom ICP re-run included
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Full universe

from €9,900
per mandate

Big TAM, verified deep signals

  • Vertical up to ~750K domains
  • Extended signal set, analyst evidence-verification pass
  • Deep-dive briefs on top results
  • Two custom ICP re-runs, CRM-ready delivery
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Multi-vertical

$15,000
per program

Several verticals, complex signals

  • Up to three related verticals, combined TAM in the millions
  • Complex custom signal engineering
  • Unified ranking across verticals
  • Analyst verification on the full shortlist
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Platform mandate

$25,000
per program

Maximum TAM, maximum signal depth

  • Millions of domains — multi-country or category-wide
  • Full custom signal engineering, highest signal counts
  • Deep-dive briefs across the shortlist
  • Priority analyst support & re-runs
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Annual monitoring

from $1,000
per thesis / year — scales with thesis size

Any TAM, kept alive year-round

  • Monthly delta reports
  • Leadership & ownership-change alerts
  • Quarterly full re-screen
  • Unlimited ICP re-runs within the thesis
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All prices net. Multi-thesis and portfolio-wide agreements quoted individually. The $100 pilot is credited toward a full run.

Choosing

Don't choose yet — pilot first

The honest answer to "which plan do I need?" is measurable, and the pilot measures it. Two dimensions drive the price:

Signal / ICP complexity. Baseline signals are efficient to run at scale. Custom extraction — "owns its rental fleet vs brokering equipment," "in-house service techs, no PE owner" — needs configuration and verification, and pushes toward the higher tiers.
Vertical TAM. A 3,000-domain niche and a 700,000-domain category are different projects. The industry counter shows your vertical's domain count up front; the pilot then measures the actual qualification rate on it.

After the pilot you hold both numbers — TAM and measured yield — plus quotes for the full run and for partial scopes sized to your budget. Most clients find the decision makes itself.

Optional add-on

Quarterly refresh plans

A mapped universe ages: companies get acquired, pivot their offering, change leadership. Refresh plans re-screen your delivered universe every quarter and ship the deltas — a separate, optional choice attachable to any plan above, and lighter than full annual monitoring.

Refresh — Starter / Growth

from $499 / quarter

Quarterly re-screen of your delivered set: newly qualified entrants, ownership changes, dropped-out companies with reasons.

Refresh — Proof / Full universe

from $1,499 / quarter

Full-universe quarterly re-screen including the long tail, with a delta report in the same transcript format as the original delivery.

Refresh — Multi-vertical / Platform

quoted

Program-wide quarterly refresh across all screened verticals, with change alerts prioritized by your ranking weights.

Search fund searchers: the Search Subscription — $99–$199/month

A monthly delta scoped to one searcher thesis: new companies matching it, ownership changes, and new succession signals in your vertical. Priced by thesis size, billed monthly, cancellable when you close — most searchers keep it for the remaining life of their search.

Search Fund Hub

Searcher Radar: be first in every new searcher's inbox — $999/month

Every new search-fund and acquisition-entrepreneur website on the internet, checked on the day of registration — and, because many companies add content only after registering the domain, rechecked 1, 2, 3 and 4 weeks later — weeks before they appear in any directory or community. Each entry is a verified intelligence record: vehicle type (traditional, self-funded, independent sponsor, holdco), principals, stated thesis, target industries and geography, size criteria, stage, and verbatim evidence quotes. Refreshed weekly.

Built for search fund investors, SBA lenders, QoE and diligence firms, and intermediaries whose economics depend on being the first call. One deal sourced from this feed can potentially pay for years of the subscription. Structured JSON/CSV, monthly billing, cancel anytime.

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Onboarding and delivery set up within one business day.

Refresh is optional and cancellable per quarter. If you need monthly cadence and alerts instead, that's the annual monitoring plan.

Start where every engagement starts

The $100 pilot delivers your first 10 qualified companies and the numbers you need to size the rest — credited toward a full run. The data does the selling.

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