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.*






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.
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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