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01 — Find

We find the companies other buyers miss.

Sourcing starts with coverage. We map the entire market to your criteria, enrich every company into a clean record, and track down the right owner. Our Research Team combines industry-leading databases with data collection we built ourselves for maximum coverage.

01 Market Mapping & Criteria

We map the entire market to your criteria.

Before we find a single company, we lock in exactly what you're looking for. Then we map every business that fits, not just the ones that are easy to find. Unlike other buy-side groups, our team cares deeply about exhausting each niche so you know you've turned over every stone.

Criteria, recorded & tracked

Your search criteria is documented and kept current, so we always know exactly what you're looking for.

95%+ of fitting companies

We surface more than 95% of the companies that match your criteria in any given niche.

A custom data-collection tool

We built our own engine combining industry-leading databases with proprietary scrapers. If a company has any meaningful web presence, we'll find it.

AI finds and filters. Humans review.

Our engine surfaces and screens companies at scale, but no target reaches your outreach list until our Research Team has reviewed it by hand. Every single one.

AI

Finds

Casts the widest possible net, pulling candidates from 40+ databases and our own real-time scraping tools.

Thousands of companies

AI

Filters

Screens every company against your exact criteria, discarding poor fits before a person ever looks.

Narrowed to the best fits

HUMAN VERIFIED

Research Team

Manual review of every target

Multiple researchers verify each company against your mandate before it's approved. Nothing is trusted to the machine alone.

  • Fit against mandate
  • Ownership & size verified
  • Reviewing now
No target goes out without human approval — the Research Team has the final word.

Coverage vs. standard databases

Off-the-shelf lead databases are fast but never exhaustive. Off-the-shelf scraping tools collect lots of data that takes effort to sift through, but they still don't find everything. Blending them with our own real-time collection is how we exhaust each search.

Standard lead databasesup to 40% of a niche
Pre-built scraping toolsup to 50% of a niche
Dedicated M&A databasesup to 60% of a niche
Evercap Mosaic95%+ of a niche
25+ tools measured for exhaustiveness Tested in-house

The Evercap Research Team has tested virtually all leading company finding solutions and found none of them to be exhaustive. Some are better than others for specific industries, but not a single one has been able to find all companies with an online presence in our clients' areas of focus.

We built our own scraping and data-collection tool that finds 95% of targets in the first run. It is the only tool that has scored higher than 60% on our list-building exhaustiveness test.

Reach out and ask our team about the tools we've tested if you'd like to learn more.

40+ data sources, unified

We built a custom list building tool that blends best-in-class databases with real-time collection across the open web, search, directories, and social.

Company discoveryEvery target, mapped

We build the complete universe of companies that fit your criteria, including the off-market names no single database holds.

Contact findingStraight to the owner

For each company we resolve the decision-maker. We manually verify their name, role, and direct contact details - not a generic inbox or phone line.

02 Company Finding

For every company, a complete, clean record.

Once a company enters your universe, we enrich and de-duplicate it into a single reliable profile so your list is accurate, current, and free of noise.

Deduplication

One clean record per company. Duplicates are matched and merged automatically, so your list is never cluttered with the same business twice.

Acme Freight Co.
Acme Freight Company
ACME Freight, LLC
Acme Freight Co.

Addresses

Verified mailing and physical addresses, ready for outreach.

Company history

Founding, ownership changes, and the milestones that shaped the business.

Detailed location information

Every site and facility, not just headquarters.

End markets

The customers and sectors each company actually serves.

Company philosophy

Culture and operating ethos, gathered from across the web.

Signals

Growth, hiring, and intent signals that flag the right timing.

Sizing every target beyond the estimates.

A database revenue figure is a starting point, not the answer. We validate the true size of every company against real-world evidence before it reaches your list.

Starting point

PitchBook

PitchBook revenue estimate

$42Mest.

A modeled figure: useful as an anchor, but never trusted on its own.

We don't take third-party revenue estimates at face value. Every company runs through our own sizing process that validates the true figures against real-world evidence to confirm it lands inside the revenue and EBITDA ranges our client is actually looking for.

Validated against

Size validation signals

Eight independent signals triangulate real scale.

FacilitiesSite scale and square footage from listings and imagery.
LocationsEvery terminal, plant, and office, not just headquarters.
EmployeesHeadcount triangulated across LinkedIn and multiple sources.
ImagesFacility and fleet photos that reveal real operating scale.
CertificationsLicenses and accreditations that imply capacity and reach.
Reviews & social signalsPublic reviews and social presence that corroborate scale and reputation.
Example customersNamed accounts that signal size, reach, and credibility.
CustomersConcentration and diversity of the customer base they serve.
Validated sizeA range you can trust that grounded in evidence, not one estimate.

Enriched record

Every company resolves to a single, complete profile.

IF

Ironwood Freight & Logistics

ironwoodfreight.com

Annual Revenue (MM)

$42

EBITDA (MM)

$7.2

Est. LinkedIn Employees

68

Company Ownership

Private

Account Lead

John Giambalvo

Client

LVC – T&L

Headquarters

2100 Gateway Commerce Dr, Suite 210 · Edwardsville, IL

Locations Web scrape

HQ Edwardsville, IL · terminals in Indianapolis, Nashville & Louisville · cross-dock in Dallas, TX.

Products & Services Web scrape

LTL, final-mile, refrigerated freight, HAZMAT-certified transport, dedicated contract logistics.

Industries Served Web scrape

Food & beverage, industrial manufacturing, retail distribution, building products.

Client Comments

Asset-light regional carrier; strong owner-operator network; smaller headcount but likely higher margin.

One source of truth

Fragmented data, resolved into one record.

Any given company is scattered across dozens of databases, directories, and its own website. Each can have a revenue figure, a stale employee count, or a generic contact. We reconcile every source into a single profile our Research Team can stand behind.

  • Cross-referenced — every field is corroborated against multiple sources before it lands in the record.
  • Web-scrape verified — locations, services, and end-markets are pulled straight from the company's own site.
  • Human-reviewed — a research analyst signs off on the size range and fit before it reaches your desk.

03 Contact Finding

The right owner and every way to reach them.

Finding the company is only half of it. We identify the decision-maker and verify every channel before a single message goes out.

Mobile number finding

We track down direct mobile numbers for owners then run every one through a multi-step phone-number verification process before we dial.

Email verification

Every email address is validated before outreach, protecting deliverability and keeping bounce rates low.

LinkedIn

LinkedIn profiles

We match the right LinkedIn profile to every contact, so outreach reaches the actual decision-maker.

Enriched record

Every decision-maker resolves to a complete, verified contact record.

DW

Dana Whitfield

President & CEO · Ironwood Freight & Logistics

Salutation

Ms.

LinkedIn

Email

dwhitfield@ironwoodfreight.com Verified

Phone Number

(618) 555-0142 Verified

Account Lead

Brandyn Townsend

Street Address

2100 Gateway Commerce Dr

City / State

Edwardsville, IL

Postal Code

62025

Region

Southeast

Industry

Less-than-truckload & final-mile freight transportation

Description

Owner-operated regional carrier providing refrigerated and HAZMAT-capable LTL service across the Midwest and Southeast.

Reach with confidence

The decision-maker, on every channel.

A name isn't enough. We resolve the actual owner or operator, not a gatekeeper, and confirm every way to reach them before a single message goes out.

  • Verified email — every address is validated to protect deliverability and keep bounce rates low.
  • Verified mobile — direct numbers are run through phone-number verification before we dial.
  • Matched LinkedIn — the right profile is tied to every contact so outreach lands with the real decision-maker.

Start with total coverage

Find every company that fits your mandate.