AI-native deal origination for private equity

Deal sourcing needs its own agent workforce.

Cambridge Agents runs hundreds of research agents in parallel to sweep entire markets, score every company against your thesis, and hand your team a fully sourced shortlist of proprietary opportunities — before anyone else has opened a spreadsheet.

Built by Cambridge engineers. Priced on results, not retainers.

cambridge-agents · run #1,204 · thesis: uk-specialty-industrial-services 247 agents live
$ agents run --thesis "UK specialty industrial services, £2–10m EBITDA, founder-owned"
▸ decomposing thesis → 14 sub-sectors · 6 screening criteria · 3 disqualifiers
▸ dispatching fleet → 247 agents across Companies House, web, filings, hiring data, trade press
agent-041 testing-inspection-certification → 312 companies screened
agent-112 planned-maintenance-services → 289 companies screened
agent-198 flagged: succession signal — founder 63, no ext. hires in 4y
▸ cross-checking findings → every datapoint verified against a primary source
▸ scoring against thesis → 3,184 screened · 214 qualified · 31 high-conviction
✓ shortlist ready — 31 companies, sourced & scored, delivered to Slack in 3h 42m
100s
of agents researching in parallel
2.3×
faster than single-agent baselines
100%
of findings traced to a primary source
24/7
market monitoring between runs
How it works

From thesis to shortlist, in hours.

You describe the companies you want to own. The agent workforce does the weeks of analyst work in between.

01

Encode your thesis

Sector, size, geography, ownership, buy-and-build angle — expressed in plain English. The agent decomposes it into hundreds of concrete research questions.

02

Agents sweep the market

Hundreds of agents fan out across registries, filings, websites, hiring data and trade press in parallel — exhaustively, not a sample.

03

Findings are verified

Every claim is cross-checked and traced to a primary source. Quality-check agents challenge weak findings before they reach you.

04

You take the meetings

A scored, sourced shortlist lands in your inbox and Slack — with owner details, succession signals and a one-page brief per company.

The platform

Research at a scale no analyst team can match.

The same agent architecture that compresses weeks of scientific research into hours — pointed at deal origination.

Parallel agent fleets

Hundreds of agents explore different corners of your thesis simultaneously — every sub-sector, every region, every angle at once.

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Every finding, fully sourced

No hallucinated pipelines. Each revenue estimate, ownership fact and succession signal links back to the primary document it came from.

Always-on monitoring

Between runs, agents watch your markets 24/7 — leadership changes, new filings, distress signals — and flag companies the moment they become approachable.

Built-in quality checking

Adversarial checker agents attack every shortlist candidate before it ships. Weak evidence gets killed, not forwarded.

Your workflow, supercharged

Shortlists flow straight into your CRM and data room. Connects to the tools your deal team already lives in.

Collaborates like a colleague

Ask follow-ups in Slack: “why did this company score 94?” — and get an answer with sources, not a shrug.

Built for private equity

Proprietary deal flow, on demand.

  • Thesis-driven originationPoint the workforce at any thesis and get an exhaustive, scored market map back — not the same list every banker is shopping.
  • Add-on sweeps for platformsGive us a platform company and the agents map every credible bolt-on in the geography, ranked by fit and approachability.
  • Succession & timing signalsFounder age, leadership churn, filing patterns — agents surface the companies likely to transact before they go to market.
Shortlist · High conviction run #1,204 · 31 of 3,184
Fenland Calibration LtdTIC · Cambridgeshire · est. £4.1m EBITDA
94 / 100
Northgate Lift ServicesMaintenance · Yorkshire · est. £2.8m EBITDA
91 / 100
Harwick EnvironmentalCompliance · Midlands · est. £6.3m EBITDA
89 / 100
Solent Marine InspectionTIC · South Coast · est. £3.5m EBITDA
87 / 100
every figure sourced → Companies House · FCA register · trade press · company filings
Works with your stack

Plugged into the tools your team already uses.

Slack Salesforce Affinity DealCloud Snowflake Google Drive Jupyter Atlassian
Enterprise-grade

Your thesis is your edge. We treat it that way.

Zero data retention

Your theses and shortlists are never used to train models, and never shared across clients.

SOC 2 aligned

Security controls built to SOC 2 Type II standards from day one, with audits underway.

SSO & access control

SAML SSO, role-based access and full audit logs for every agent action.

Private deployment

On-prem and VPC deployment options for firms with strict data boundaries.

Your competitors are still cold-calling brokers.

Book a 30-minute call. Bring a live thesis — we'll show you what the agent workforce finds in it. Pricing is performance-based: we win when you take meetings.

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