Most PE firms that look at Searcher OS decide it's too small for them. Or they figure they already have their own process and their own CRM, so why bother.
Both of those are basically right. Keep your process. This is about bolting one cheap thing on underneath it.
The gap it covers
Searcher OS monitors 361 broker websites and listing marketplaces. I pulled the production numbers this morning: about 89,000 listings tracked, roughly 1,485 new ones in the last 7 days.
Most of those are too small for you. But asking prices run past $30M at the top, and that end overlaps the lower middle market and independent sponsor territory. Somewhere in this week's 1,485 there are probably a few that fit your thesis, and the usual way to find them is an analyst skimming listing sites when they get around to it. Or nobody checking at all.
The setup
Searcher OS runs a hosted MCP server. Setup is pasting one URL into Claude (or ChatGPT, or any MCP client) and logging in with your browser. No API keys, no config files. You don't need an engineer.
You set a buy box: price range, EBITDA range, industries, states. The feed filters against it automatically.
Once connected, the AI can search the live feed, count matches, pull full listing detail, and filter down to only what appeared in the last hour.
The routine
Claude supports scheduled tasks. So you set up a routine to check hourly for new deals that have landed and have anything that matches written directly into your CRM, a spreadsheet, an email to the deal team, or however you'd like it. Your CRM connects through its own MCP connector or API. The output format is whatever you ask for.
We already have users doing this today. One example: a self-funded searcher whose agent triages overnight listings against his buy box and writes notes into the CRM before he calls brokers in the morning. Same mechanics, smaller deals.
New listings flow in continuously through the day, so an hourly routine surfaces a deal within about an hour of it hitting the feed. Your analysts see it before the broker's email blast goes out to everyone else.
What it won't do
This only covers the listed, brokered market. It won't source proprietary off-market deals; that stays your job and your edge.
That's kind of the point. It's the coverage layer for the part of the market your team skims manually, or skips because it's mostly noise.
The math
$79 a month. That's less than 1 analyst-hour at most firms, and it buys standing coverage of 361 sources with an agent watching around the clock.
If it flags 1 deal a year you'd have otherwise missed, the conversation is over.
There's no enterprise sales process and no demo call. It's $79/month (or $759/year) with a 7-day trial. Set the buy box, paste the MCP URL from Settings into Claude, and let it run in the background while your real sourcing engine does its thing.