Arkon GroupModuleInorganic growthMarket Scan
Your target list doesn't fit your thesis.
Market Scan names which markets to enter by acquisition, then ranks the targets that fit — up to 200 candidates scored against your thesis.
Outcome · Thesis first, then a ranked target list
From banker deck to ranked candidates.
- +15-30% expected EBITDA delta
- On the acquired entity over a 24-month integration window, lever-tagged from the thesis onward.
- Ranked target list
- Up to 200 first-pass-fit candidates per scan, surfaced from an external reference dataset of private companies and scored against your thesis and your plan.
- Days, not weeks
- Thesis and ranked list delivered in days — what a banker-led exercise delivers in weeks. Same evidence depth, faster turnaround.
Ranges illustrative — your audit sizes the inorganic potential specific to your market; the thesis and the ranked target list are what this module delivers.
What moves the number
Which markets, then which targets.
The thesis — which markets by acquisition
The first step names the lead inorganic angle — roll-up, adjacency, capability tuck-in, platform build, geographic expansion — bounded by scope appetite and deal-size band, and ranks the markets buying beats building in.
Target criteria locked
The criteria flow from the angle: sector, size band, ownership and succession signals, capability gaps your baseline flags. Locked before any name appears, so the list cannot drift from the thesis.
Cross-industry scan against your thesis
An external dataset of private companies enriched with ownership, succession, valuation and capability signals; adjacent verticals and bolt-ons your plan flags surface first.
Strategic-fit scoring against your baseline
Each candidate carries a commercial-fit score against the locked angle, an EBITDA-uplift band and a one-line rationale, confidence-flagged.
Hand-off to Commercial Due Diligence
When strategic fit, owner readiness and a plausible valuation envelope converge, the candidate moves to Commercial Due Diligence with the scan output already populated.
Methodology · Thesis + ranked target list
Angle stack, structured scan, signal-driven promotion.
- How does Market Scan lock the angle stack?
- It names the lead angle — roll-up, platform build, adjacency, vertical extension, capability tuck-in, geographic expansion — scored for fit against your baseline and bounded by scope appetite and deal-size band; the target-criteria framework flows from that lock.
- What reference dataset does the scan run against?
- An external private-company dataset enriched with ownership, succession, valuation and capability signals; the scan runs your target-criteria framework against it.
- How is strategic fit scored?
- Three components: angle-match to the locked lead angle, capability-gap match to a baseline-flagged gap, and integration readiness. Each carries a confidence band; the composite reflects the weakest link.
- When does a candidate get promoted to Commercial Due Diligence?
- Two-of-three trigger: strategic-fit score above threshold, owner-readiness signal present (succession event, age band, prior partial transaction), valuation envelope plausible against comparable deals. All three triggers prioritisation; two triggers promotion.
See it for yours.
Five minutes, €0: your inorganic potential sized from the median target in your market, and the angles a thesis should draw on. This module delivers the thesis and the ranked target list.