Full-web acquisition target intelligence

Your thesis, screened against the entire active web

Proprietary deal flow starts with coverage nobody else has. We screen all 120M+ active domains against your thesis and hand you 35+ evidence-backed signals per company — targets that can't be in anyone else's pipeline, because no one else started from the entire internet.

Two example vertical workflows — 1,000+ verticals available the same way
120M+ domains99.99%+ of the active internet, classified
719,358domains in the Advertising & Marketing vertical
ICP screeningstandard thesis, read against every site
≈48,412qualifying agencies — 35+ evidence-backed signals each (estimate)
120M+ domains99.99%+ of the active internet, classified
367,766domains in the Mechanical & Industrial Engineering vertical
ICP screeningstandard thesis, read against every site
≈9,900qualifying companies — 35+ evidence-backed signals each (estimate)
Built by Alpha Quantum — a leading provider of website categorization & offline categorization databases, trusted by 300+ clients. The same 120M-domain engine powers every screen.
The data engine → Categorization platform
Trusted across the sector

More than 300 companies have trusted the AI platforms our company operates — including:

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Classified domains
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Business & finance sites
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Signals per company
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Evidence-backed claims
The method

Three steps. No black box.

Every vendor promises coverage. The difference is where the list starts — and whether you can audit why each company is on it.

1

The universe

We start from the entire active web — 120M+ domains, already classified across 700+ categories.

2

LLM thesis screening

Your thesis, in plain language, becomes the filter. Every candidate site is read and scored against it.

3

Evidence & deltas

Every call ships with a verbatim snippet and source URL. Monthly deltas keep the universe alive.

The deliverable

This is what lands in your inbox

One company from a real production run — a digital-marketing-agency screen — exactly as delivered: every visible signal with its confidence score and the verbatim quote behind it. A free pilot sends you twenty of these for your own thesis.

A note on confidentiality. The company shown is a privately held business, so in line with standard practice its quotes are paraphrased and identifying details replaced (e.g. “ACME 1 Inc.”); the published text is intentionally not traceable to it. Pilot and client deliverables carry the verbatim originals with source URLs. Request a free pilot →

DMA-01

Social Media Agency · VT
High-confidence fit 24 signals checked 14 visible on site Small team (2–10)
Founder / family association
100%
founder_led
“day-to-day leadership of the firm rests with a team member”
Visible leadership bench
100%
small leadership group: the founder plus support staff and outside creative partners
“the founder is backed by a lean internal team and a set of outside creative partners”
Operating history
100%
2017
“operating since the late 2010s”
Strategic fit
100%
social media agency + consulting, strategy, management, auditing, reporting, content creation + small businesses
“described as a digital marketing shop centered on social channels whose aim is growing client businesses”
Geographic footprint
100%
VT; serving nationwide
“builds and runs high-performing social campaigns for client companies across the country”
Service vs product model
100%
service_led
“promises to demonstrate what social channels are worth while handling the execution itself”
Recurring-offering indicators
100%
yes
“advertises monthly reporting summarizing each client’s social activity”
End-market exposure
100%
small businesses, a scientific association, a national health insurer, a regional brewery
“client roster includes a scientific association, a specialty bakeware maker, a national health insurer, and a regional brewery”
Management professionalization
100%
limited_visible_bench
“day-to-day work is handled by the founder with a small support team and external creatives”
Activity trajectory
100%
April 29, 2026
“blog post about putting social captions to work for SEO, dated April 29, 2026”
Digital-commercial maturity
100%
24/7 access to our reporting software
“clients get round-the-clock access to a reporting tool for checking progress whenever they wish”
Ownership status check
100%
no
“serves companies spanning a wide mix of communities and industries”
B2C client focus
100%
yes; small businesses, consumer brands
“frames small enterprises as a vital part of the local community”
Recurring retainer model
100%
yes
“billing built on monthly management fees for continuing managed work”
The edge

Where full-universe screening wins

For polished mid-caps, a conventional database serves you well. Our edge is everywhere the long tail lives.

Fragmented niches

Job shops and family operations whose sites say “trusted since 1972,” not “B2B SaaS.” We read what they actually do.

Custom ICPs

“Distributors with in-house service techs, no PE owner” isn't a database filter. It's one sentence of thesis text for an LLM.

Coverage audits

Point us at a thesis you think is covered. We show what your tools missed or misclassified — with evidence.

Who we serve

One engine, built into your workflow

From platform BD teams to search funds to corp dev — each gets the universe pointed at the question they actually ask.

The deliverables

What actually arrives

Not a login to a database — a mapped universe for your thesis, in files your team can work immediately.

The ranked universe

Every screened company with all signals, confidence scores, evidence quotes, and source URLs. CSV, Excel, or CRM-ready.

The sample report

Top fits, keyword-missed fits, documented exclusions, and honest insufficient-evidence cases. See a live one →

The exclusion log

Every removed candidate with the reason and the quote. Roughly one in ten keyword-perfect candidates turns out to be already group-owned.

Monthly deltas

New entrants, ownership changes, leadership changes, offering pivots — the universe stays alive after delivery.

The ranking

Three scores, one honest ranking

Every company is ranked the same way, and the weights are public — so you can audit why anything sits where it sits.

70%

Mandate Fit

Subsector, service model, recurring offering, footprint, compliance — how closely the company matches the written thesis.

20%

Outreach Suitability

An identifiable decision-maker and an independent owner. Companies already inside a group score zero here, whatever their fit.

10%

Transition Context

Long history, thin visible bench, generational language — deliberately capped so context never outranks fit.

Full methodology, including the core 20-signal framework (35+ with vertical-specific sets) and its verification discipline, on the method page.
The instrument

Twenty core signals, read from every company's own site — 35+ with vertical-specific sets

Nothing inferred, nothing purchased from data brokers — extracted from what companies publish, with a quote behind every value.

Independent ownership
Founder / owner involvement
Generational family language
Succession-relevant context
Operating history
Leadership bench
Management professionalization
Workforce & scale
Geographic footprint
Recurring revenue indicators
Customer base breadth
Customer tenure & retention
End-market mix
B2B orientation
Service vs product mix
Licenses & certification moat
Skilled labor bench
Visible asset base
Hiring posture
Digital-operations maturity

Plus vertical-specific signals per engagement: UL 508A panel shops, ISO/IEC 17025 scopes, ASME stamps, NADCAP approvals, OEM authorizations, rental fleets, chemical service programs…

The honest comparison

Company databases and full-web mapping do different jobs

Keep your database for profiles and workflow. Use the census to know what it can't see. Many clients run both.

Leading company databasesFull-web universe mapping
Starting poolCompanies their crawlers profiled120M+ classified domains — the active web
Long-tail industrial coverageThin — no news, no funding, no profileNative — the long tail is the point
Screening criteriaFirmographic filtersYour thesis text, read against every site
Evidence per inclusionProfile fieldsVerbatim quotes + source URLs
ExclusionsSilentDocumented, with reasons
Custom ICP re-runsNew search, same indexIncluded — same universe, new question
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Published sample verticals
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Companies deep-analyzed for sample reports
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Signals published with evidence
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Enterprise organisations on our AI platforms
Size your universe

How many domains operate in your target vertical?

Our classification database covers 120M+ active domains across every IAB content category. Search any industry to see the total addressable universe — the denominator most buyers never quantify before they start sourcing.

Try the industry counter
Example: Industrial Machinery
Total domains12,847
In top 1M popularity1,234
Long-tail (deep web)11,613

The long tail is where keyword-based databases lose coverage — and where acquisitive companies hide.

Where we've already screened

Twenty-five B2B verticals, ten with published sample reports

Every vertical is B2B or commercial-industrial by policy. The ten below carry live sample reports with full signal transcripts.

Straight answers

The questions finance buyers ask first

How much does this overlap with the databases we already license?
Less than you'd expect in fragmented verticals — in our sample runs, a fifth or more of confirmed fits lacked the category's obvious homepage keywords entirely. The gap analysis measures your number, on your thesis.
Can I verify the quality before paying?
Yes — that's what the sample reports are. Ten verticals, full signal transcripts per company, documented exclusions. Check them against your own tools; if we don't surface anything yours missed, don't buy.
Do you predict which owners want to sell?
No — and we advise skepticism toward anyone who claims to. We extract succession-relevant context companies state about themselves, and refuse the rest. The refusal list is public, on the standards page.
What does it cost, and how fast is delivery?
It starts free: the pilot delivers your first 10 qualified companies at no cost, with a measured projection of the full-run yield. Paid runs then scale with vertical size and signal complexity — reference tiers from $999 to $25,000, plus custom scopes sized to your budget after the pilot. Pricing detail →
Who is behind this?
Alpha Quantum — an EU-based data company operating several AI platforms and one of the largest independent website classification databases. 300+ enterprise organisations use the AI platforms we operate, from telecom to adtech to travel tech. About us →
What we refuse to sell

Discipline is the product

No “ready to sell” flags, no revenue guesses, no owner profiling, no distress detection — and no consumer-captive verticals. A vendor that documents what it refuses to infer is one whose positive classifications you can trust.

Read our standards
No “ready to sell”
No revenue guesses
No owner profiling
No distress detection

See the full universe for your thesis

Start with the free pilot — we configure the full run for your vertical, send the first 10 qualified companies with full signal transcripts, and project what the complete universe holds. No cost until you opt in.

Request a Free Pilot