Engagement & pricing
A one-time setup retainer covers launch of the outreach engine for your sector. From there we work on a referral fee agreement on closed transactions. Sample agreement available on the intro call.
Typical setup is 2–3 weeks: target universe build, channel infrastructure, copy and signal development, then live launch. First warm leads usually surface within 4–6 weeks.
Yes — each thesis gets its own outreach engine with its own target universe, copy and channel allocation. Volume figures are per active mandate, and as we expand our infrastructure we can run more theses in parallel for the same firm.
Universe build, contact enrichment across decision-maker roles, warmed sending domains, AI dialing infrastructure, signal monitoring, multi-channel cadence orchestration, and human-supervised qualification of every warm conversation handed back to you.
How the engine works
Our agents handle initial conversations across channels, confirm decision-maker identity, surface intent signals, and only escalate when a target is genuinely warm. You only see leads ready for a real conversation.
Email, AI voice calls, SMS, voicemail and direct outreach on LinkedIn, coordinated against the same target universe. Cadence and channel mix vary by role (founder vs CFO vs operations head) and by the signal that triggered the touch — and as we expand our services, our outreach surface area expands with them.
Public, observable, attributable events — leadership changes, equipment financing UCC filings, capacity-expansion job postings, license renewals, recapitalisations, founder-age dynamics. Generic web-behaviour “intent data” is not part of the signal stack.
It’s generally a template with automated personalisation — every first-touch message references specific, attributable facts about the target company, assembled from public sources.
Coverage & sectors
We build a custom target universe for each engagement, so sector coverage is defined by your thesis. We’ve run mandates across industrials, healthcare services, business services, software and consumer — anywhere the lower-middle and mid-market is fragmented and a clear acquisition thesis can be articulated.
A typical thesis universe runs 2,000–8,000 viable targets after enrichment and qualification. We work through the entire universe with a coordinated cadence rather than a curated short list — and as we add capacity, the universes we can credibly cover keep getting larger.
Primarily North America today. We can run select sector mandates in the UK and EU, but the operational and compliance lift is higher and the engagement is scoped accordingly.
Compliance & operations
Yes. Email follows CAN-SPAM and regional rules; SMS follows TCPA and carrier-level opt-in handling; voicemail uses ringless delivery within legal frameworks. AI dialing operates within FCC guidance on artificial-voice calls. Compliance is built into the infrastructure, not reviewed after the fact.
Every sending domain is properly authenticated (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), independently warmed, and segmented across adjacent verticals to prevent concentrated deliverability collapse. Sending volume is paced to the warming curve of each individual domain.
AI agents handle the canvas-pass conversations — initial qualification, signal confirmation, decision-maker identification, meeting scheduling. Anything that requires human judgement, including warm handoff to your team, is run by Acquisition Atlas human operators.
Target universe, signal data and conversation transcripts are held in account-segregated infrastructure. Nothing is shared between mandates or accounts. At engagement end, your data can be exported in standard CRM-compatible formats.
Reporting & accountability
You get regular briefs and updates from the team running your mandate — progress on universe coverage, signals fired, conversations in progress and qualified hand-offs delivered. A live client dashboard is on our roadmap; in the meantime, qualified hand-offs are delivered by our team to yours in whatever format your buy-side team prefers — PDF, Excel, or any CRM-friendly export.
Universe fully built and contacted; signal monitoring live across the full target list; baseline reply and connect rates established; first cohort of warm conversations qualified and handed to your team. Closed transactions typically follow in months four through nine.
