Hi all - We all know that broker listings and aggregator alerts can be hit or miss, so how do you quickly identify the best opportunities to speed up your time to LOI?

My team has been using a cool scraper on Apify.com to streamline this process (https://apify.com/acquistion-automation/bizbuysell-scraper) amongst other scraping tools.

We've paired it with a proprietary AI deal screener that analyzes listings against our criteria using Clay.com. This approach has saved us at least 25 hours per week, but we're always looking to make this process better.

Here’s a high-level overview of our process:

  1. 1. Scrape: We scrape key listing sites like BizBuySell, Axial, and Interexo for our target markets, feeding the data into Clay via a webhook.
  2. 2. Analyze: Clay.com parses each listing, leveraging AI (Anthropic Sonnet & GPT-4o mini) to assess fit based on about 8 factors, resulting in a "Deal Score."
  3. 3. Alert & Organize: Listings that meet our criteria trigger a Slack alert and are added to our CRM with key deal stats and broker contact information.
  4. 4. Outreach: A personalized email is automatically drafted to the broker, requesting the NDA.

  1. What creative scraping tools and AI are you using to speed up your time to LOI?