Using AI to scale & automate my search

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In addition to accessing the most active online network of business buyers, Searchfunder licenses research that is simply not cost effective for individuals. Access over 15,000 industry reports and 50,000 transaction financials. You also get monthly credits for contact information for your company sourcing campaign with the option to purchase more at drastically discounted rates. Searchfunder has pre-purchased access from these data providers in order to empower individual buyers and to help searchers level the playing field versus private equity.

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by a professional from Stockholm School of Economics in Riga
in Charlotte, NC, USA

2yrs ago

Using AI to scale & automate my search

After spending the better part of 2023 searching for deals based on somewhat specific search criteria, and realizing how manual the process is, I decided to tinker with AI and see if I could automate it to some extent. It turned out to be doable, and I enjoyed building the tool so much that I'm currently turning it into a SaaS product to make it accessible to other searchers as well. We're currently gearing up for our public launch - if anyone's interested in a demo, please reach out at redacted or send me a DM here.

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reply by a professional 1yr ago
from Duke University in New York, NY, USA

For proprietary sourcing, it's a combination of finding businesses and their owner contacts

I recommend checking out a free Google Maps scraper we launched, then using our Google Sheets extension to find owners/personalize outreach (did you know there's a ton of diff types of cleaning biz, like gutter cleaning to residential to solar?) Free scraper: redacted Extension: redacted

reply by a professional 1yr ago
from Stockholm School of Economics in Riga in Charlotte, NC, USA

Hi everyone! I wanted to thank you all for your interest, support, and feedback! I am happy to share that as of today Skarp AI is officially live. There's a "Try For Free" version, allowing you to initiate 3 searches and access 3 listings at no cost. Additionally, I'm offering a discount to those who expressed early interest, if you haven't received one via email from me yet please reach out. To start exploring visit redacted and click on “Try For Free”.