Most Firms Wait for Brokers. Ted Finds Proprietary Deals While You Sleep.
Ted is an AI agent purpose-built for deal sourcing. Not a database. Not a marketplace. An agent that does the work of an entire sourcing team, autonomously, around the clock.
The Problem
Deal sourcing in the lower mid-market is broken. PE firms and search funds spend months chasing the same brokered deals that every other buyer sees. The best opportunities never hit the market. They go to the firms that find them first through proprietary outreach, relationship networks, and systematic sourcing that most teams cannot sustain at scale.
Hiring a dedicated sourcing analyst costs $115K-$185K per year when you factor in salary, benefits, and the PitchBook subscription they need. Even then, one human can only cover so much ground. The math does not work for most search funds. And even for PE firms with sourcing teams, the coverage gap means opportunities slip through every day.
The Agent
Ted runs on OpenClaw, an AI agent platform that gives agents the ability to operate autonomously across data sources, workflows, and communication channels. Ted is not a search tool with a chat interface. Ted is a full agent with memory, judgment, and the ability to execute complex sourcing workflows end to end.
That means Ted does not just find companies in a database. Ted searches across business registrations, public filings, industry directories, news sources, job postings, and proprietary datasets. Ted verifies ownership, estimates financials, scores thesis fit, and delivers qualified targets to your pipeline. The entire sourcing workflow, not just the search query.
Built for the Lower Mid-Market
The lower mid-market ($1M-$25M revenue) is where the best risk-adjusted returns live. It is also where deal sourcing is hardest. Companies at this size do not have IR departments. They are not covered by analysts. Many have never been contacted by a buyer. Finding them requires going beyond the databases that every other firm uses.
Ted was built specifically for this market. The sourcing models, verification methods, and scoring algorithms are calibrated for founder-owned and family-owned businesses in the $1M-$25M revenue range. The companies that make the best acquisition targets for roll-up strategies, platform investments, and search fund acquisitions.
What Ted Believes
Proprietary beats brokered.
The best deals are the ones nobody else sees. Ted finds companies before they enter a broker process.
Systematic beats serendipitous.
Hope is not a sourcing strategy. Consistent, thesis-driven sourcing produces consistent, thesis-matched pipeline.
Speed beats perfection.
Your first targets arrive within 24 hours. Thesis refinement is continuous, not a prerequisite.
Pipeline beats pitch decks.
You do not need another market map. You need qualified targets with contact information and a reason to call.
The Human Question
People ask whether Ted replaces deal professionals. The answer is no. Ted replaces the work that deal professionals should not be doing. The hours spent searching databases, cold-calling from purchased lists, cross-referencing data sources, and building spreadsheets of potential targets. The mechanical sourcing work.
Your deal team should be building relationships with owners, evaluating businesses, structuring transactions, and closing acquisitions. They should not be spending half their week sourcing leads from the same databases every other firm uses.
Ted is not the future of deal-making. Ted is the future of the work that keeps deal-makers from making deals.