Find the businesses whose owners are ready to sell

GRAVITAS is ownership-transition intelligence. It surfaces private companies whose owners are ready to sell — 6–12 months before they reach the market — by scoring operating momentum, owner readiness, and financial catalysts into a single readiness signal, then delivering them as a curated, exclusive deal feed for PE and M&A buyers. Where company databases map who exists, GRAVITAS reads who is ready to transact, so buyers reach off-market sellers first.

Built for investment bankers, lower-middle-market private equity, M&A advisors, business brokers, and search funds who need proprietary, off-market deal flow and lead time over the auction crowd. Databases tell you who exists. GRAVITAS tells you who's ready.

What signals show a business owner is ready to sell?

An aging owner with no clear successor, a long tenure with declining engagement, a growth plateau, reduced operating hours or footprint, and hard financial catalysts on the public record — fused into a single readiness score across operating momentum, owner readiness, and financial catalyst.

What are business exit signals?

Business exit signals are the observable indicators that a private-company owner is approaching a sale or ownership transition — often 6–12 months before they list. Common exit signals include an aging owner with no named successor, a long tenure with declining day-to-day engagement, a growth plateau, reduced operating hours or a shrinking footprint, leadership quietly stepping back, and hard financial catalysts on the public record. GRAVITAS reads these exit signals across dozens of data sources and scores how close each owner is to transacting.

Seller-intent data for off-market deal sourcing

Seller-intent data predicts whether a business owner is ready to sell — not just whether the company exists. For M&A and private-equity buyers, that means reaching owners in their selling window before a banker is hired and before a competitive auction inflates the price. GRAVITAS is the seller-intent and owner-readiness layer for off-market deal origination and proprietary deal flow in the lower middle market.

The silver tsunami: retiring owners with no succession plan

Roughly 2.9 million U.S. business owners are aged 55 or older and 58% have no succession plan — about $10 trillion in business value changing hands as a generation retires. GRAVITAS finds these retiring, baby-boomer business owners by reading owner age and tenure, the absence of a named successor, and corroborating succession signals, then ranks the owners most likely to transact in a given vertical and region so buyers reach them first.

GRAVITAS vs Grata vs SourceScrub

Grata and SourceScrub are company databases that map who exists from what a company publishes. GRAVITAS scores who is ready to sell — adding seller-intent, owner-readiness, exclusivity (one buyer per market), and physical-business ground truth those databases do not provide. If you are looking for a Grata alternative or a SourceScrub alternative focused on seller intent rather than discovery, GRAVITAS is the off-market layer.