Source
Find and match established businesses. Off-market sourcing plus 50,000+ live listings filtered against your buy box, so you see real companies before they reach a broker.
People × capital × deal flow × execution
Buying Companies
Has Always Been a
Team Sport.
Acquisition Network helps buyers find, evaluate, finance, acquire and operate established businesses — combining technology with experienced acquisition and operating teams.
FindOff-market sourcing + matched listings
EvaluateIUF underwriting & diligence
FinanceLenders & private lending
OperatePost-close operating support
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How an acquisition actually moves
Five stages. One system.
Buying a company is not one event — it is five. Most options do one of them. We run all five on one platform, with the team behind each.
Underwrite
Cash flow, risk and fit. A structured underwriting framework — the IUF underwriting model — turns a seller's financials into a clear read on quality, risk and a defensible price.
Finance
SBA and conventional lenders, plus private lending and alternative capital. Acquisition Network facilitates introductions across its lender relationships; AN is not a licensed lender and does not guarantee approval.
Acquire
LOI, diligence, structure and close. The team negotiates, runs a 150-point diligence process, structures the transaction and moves the deal to funding and signing.
Operate
Transition, recruiting and management, KPIs, financial controls, reporting and growth — as appropriate to the engagement. Closing is the start, not the finish line.
The platform
Real tools.
Not a slide deck.
This is where the machine actually runs. Sourcing, underwriting, diligence, financing and reporting are screens on a shared board — the Deal Desk — so the team, the lender and the consultant all look at the same file.
- Deal Desk pipeline — every deal on one board
- Acquisition Compass — AI analysis of listings and financials
- IUF underwriting model — cash flow, risk and fit
- Data room & 150-point diligence attached to each deal
- Sourcing, pipeline tracking and reporting tools
The model, explained
How the network works.
Ryan walks through the model and the platform behind Acquisition Network.
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Three ways in
Choose your path.
Which path is right depends on your capital, your time and how much of the work you want to own. We'd rather tell you honestly on the first call than sell you the wrong one.
01
Done For You
We find, vet, negotiate, and close it.
You stay the buyer and review the LOI. Our buy-side team brings the sourcing, financial vetting and execution behind you — and operating support after close.
- Systematized pipeline, LOI to close
- Deal sourcing and financial vetting
- Negotiation and financing support
- Post-acquisition operator support
02
Done With You
A consultant on every stage.
We do it with you — hands-on guidance through the whole deal. Dedicated consultant pairing, with the Deal Desk and templates behind you.
- Dedicated consultant pairing
- Full Deal Desk + templates
- Hands-on diligence guidance
03
Do It Yourself
Self-serve in the app. Upgrade anytime.
You do it, with our tools — the app, marketplace, and university. Build your process with the network.
- Marketplace + buy-box DealMatch
- AI deal tools + document templates
- University curriculum
After the close
Closing isn't the finish line.
Most help ends at signing. We stay — placing operators, setting controls and reporting on the business you now own.
Transition & recruiting
A managed handover from the seller, and recruiting or placement of the operator who runs the business day to day.
KPIs & financial controls
The reporting rhythm, financial controls and KPIs that keep cash flow visible — led by our operating team, as appropriate to the engagement.
Growth
Add-on acquisitions, shared services and the network behind the business — so the first deal is not the last one.
Why us, specifically
The Acquisition Network difference
Buying a company takes four things: finding the deal, financing it, structuring it, and running it afterwards. Almost everyone does exactly one — and is paid before you succeed.
Every other option
One piece, then gone
- Courses teach you to find a deal — and stop there
- Brokers work for the seller and leave at the close
- Listing sites are free because you are the product
- Software finds owners; it doesn't finance or run anything
Acquisition Network
All five stages, on your side
- Buy-side team — sourcing to close, representing you
- Financing facilitated across lenders and private lending
- Diligence, structuring and negotiation handled
- Operating support after you own it
The team
The bench is the product.
The people behind Acquisition Network.
Ryan Morgan
Founder & CEO
Built the product, the model and the team. Four years turning marketing spend into qualified acquisition conversations, then assembled the bench that closes them.
Jim O'Leary
COO
20-year sales and operations executive. Scaled a company from $1M to $200M+, running 450 locations across 30 countries.
Steve Johnson
CFO
20-year finance executive. Advised a $1.2B beverage bottler on roll-up acquisitions and on raising over $700M. Owns diligence, deal structuring and the underwriting framework.
David Dowda
President of M&A
15 years in M&A, and has personally bought and operated ten companies over the last decade. Negotiates and closes the transaction.
Inside the network
See an All Hands meeting.
A recorded example of the team sharing its work and introducing the Accelerator.
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Next step
Come to the call already knowing what you want.
The one-on-one is a fit conversation — your capital and criteria first, products second, and a straight answer about whether there's a fit at all.