Find owner-operated companies before they go to market. Seastone identifies privately held US businesses likely to enter an exit in the next 6-18 months.*

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Behavioral Blueprints
ProCredit Bank
American HealthCare Capital
LIFCO
Hines
Ubersuggest

Identifying company owners during retirement

3.48x higher acquisition odds observed. Powered by 30+ verified signals. Read more.

Sourcing from public filings

Every prospect surfaces from a mandatory disclosure filing — not a guess, not a scraped listing. If it's in the record, it qualifies.

Nation-wide coverage

Public filings tracked across all 50 states, spanning the sources every state and federal agency requires businesses to file.

Enterprise-Grade Compliance

Data is handled securely end-to-end, with access controls and encryption at every layer of the pipeline.

const company = await enrich(input.company)

const website = await crawl(company.domain)
const signals = extractSignals(website)

const classification = await claude.generate({
  model: "claude-sonnet-4",
  context: signals,
  task: "classify acquisition readiness"
})

const score = mlModel.predict({
  growth: company.revenue_growth,
  hiring: signals.hiring_velocity,
  ownership: company.owner_tenure,
  sentiment: classification.sentiment
})

return filter(score > 0.82)

Enrichment using AI/ML

Every signal is verified and enriched by AI agents before it reaches you — cross-referenced against public records, not inferred from a database field.

Predicting every industry.

Financial Services
Healthcare
Technology
Construction
Energy
Transportation
Manufacturing
Accommodation
Retail
Real Estate

Research Studies

36 Research-Supported Signals. One Pre-Exit Intelligence System. Seastone combines 30+ empirically grounded indicators to identify when a company may be moving toward an ownership transition. Read article

30+

Research-supported signal families

3.48x

Higher acquisition odds observed

2 yrs

Earlier external exit observed

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