I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about where searchers lose the most time during sourcing. It does not seem to be just “finding companies.” The harder part seems to be everything after that: - turning a thesis into a usable target list - knowing which companies are actually worth reviewing - finding the right owner/operator contact - avoiding generic inboxes when possible - tracking what has been reviewed, skipped, deferred, or contacted - keeping company sourcing, broker/advisor sourcing, and outreach in one workflow I’m a student at the University of Texas at Austin and I’ve been building ASE Partners around this problem. The product is meant to help searchers source companies, score them against a thesis, find better contacts, draft outreach, and now also source relevant brokers and M&A advisors. I’m still early, but I’m trying to make the research quality strong enough that a searcher can actually trust the pipeline instead of just getting another generic scraped list. For searchers actively sourcing right now: what part of the sourcing workflow still feels the most manual or painful? Would love to compare notes.