Searcher OS is the operating system for buying a small business. It pulls business-for-sale listings from marketplaces and hundreds of regional broker sites into one feed, matches them against your acquisition criteria, and then runs the rest of the work: a Kanban pipeline for every conversation, AI analysis of the CIMs brokers send you, SBA loan and DSCR calculators for the financing math, and automated broker outreach so NDAs stop stalling your week.
Acquisition entrepreneurs across the spectrum: self-funded searchers buying their first business with an SBA loan, funded searchers backed by investors, and micro-PE operators buying their fifth. The platform covers deals from roughly $500K to $30M in asking price — anywhere the work is the same grind of sourcing, triaging, analyzing, and negotiating.
I'm Joshua Thacker. I spent 15 years as a SaaS executive — go-to-market at Salesforce and PagerDuty, then COO of Mews — before leaving to buy a cash-flowing business of my own. I expected the hard part to be finding a good deal. It turned out the hard part was everything around it: refreshing five marketplaces, copying listings into spreadsheets, reading 80-page CIMs at midnight, rebuilding the same loan model in Excel, and chasing brokers for NDAs that took two weeks to arrive.
After a year of searching that way, the tooling gap was obvious. Every other serious profession has an operating system; searchers had bookmarks and a spreadsheet. So I built Searcher OS — first for my own search, then for everyone else running one.
I run the company as a solo founder with a team of AI agents handling engineering, support, and operations alongside me. That's not a gimmick; it's the reason a one-person company can ship a platform this broad. I wrote about how it works in The AI Team That Runs Searcher OS, and you can meet the whole cast on the team page.
There's a free plan with no credit card required: the full deal feed on a 3-week delay, 1 buy box, and 1 AI CIM analysis a month. Paid plans add fresh, real-time listings and the full workflow, starting at $79/month. No success fees, no cut of your deal. Details on the pricing page.
Email support@searcheros.ai — I read everything. You can also find me on LinkedIn.
Free plan, no credit card. Set a buy box, watch the feed fill, and run 1 CIM through the AI analyzer before you pay anything.
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