Look-alikes for the lower middle market
One company in. Every company like it out.
Paste a website. PE Radar reads what the company is and comes back with a ranked list of companies like it, with size, revenue and ownership facts on the strongest, that your whole deal team votes on, annotates, and watches grow every week.
- First list in minutes
- Votes and notes, per company
- Lists that grow every Monday
- Invite-only · provisioned per firm
More like harbor-marine-fab.com
A ship-repair and marine fabrication contractor doing welding, shipfitting and watertight-door work for Navy and waterfront vessels.
Norfolk, VA · P(≥$2M) 71% · 95 emp · est. 1984 · owner 22y
Navy repair contracts referenced · dry-dock capability
Mobile, AL · P(≥$2M) 64% · 60 emp · est. 1997
Shipfitting, piping and electrical · Coast Guard work
Gulfport, MS · P(≥$2M) 58% · 40 emp · est. 2003 · owner 19y
Marine fabrication and barge repair · family owned
Tacoma, WA · P(≥$2M) 49% · 70 emp · est. 1991
General industrial fab; some marine work
Try it: vote or leave a note. Illustrative companies and team.
Team activity
- ARAlex liked Tidewater Hull & Steel
- JLJordan noted on Bayline Marine: “owner is second-gen”
- SOSam passed Cascade Industrial Welding
- MCMia liked Gulfport Weld & Fab
How it works
Three minutes from one name to a list the whole team can work.
Sourcing starts with a company you wish you had ten more of. PE Radar starts there too.
- 01
Paste one company
A website is enough. Add a sentence about what you like (family owned, service contracts, three branches) and a geography if it matters. Nothing to configure.
- 02
Get the list
Within minutes: hundreds of ranked candidates, measured against what the company actually is. The strongest rows carry company facts: size, revenue, founding year, how long the owner has held it.
- 03
Work it together
Vote a company up or down, leave a note on it, see your partners' faces on the rows they care about. Refine turns the team's judgment into a sharper list. Watch it, and every Monday it grows.
What a row carries
Norfolk, VA · P(≥$2M) 71% · 95 emp · est. 1984 · owner 22y
Navy repair contracts referenced · dry-dock capability
- Match strength
- how closely it fits the company you gave
- Company facts
- P(≥$2M EBITDA), headcount, revenue, founded, owner tenure
- Highlights
- two lines on why it fits
- Your team
- votes with faces, notes, who's seen it
Depth
Quick · Deep · Exhaustive
Minutes to a few hours. Pick how far to go; the list is ranked either way.
Watch
Grows every Monday
A watched list re-runs weekly and posts what's new to the team's feed.
Built for the whole deal team
A list is only as good as the judgment on it.
Sourcing breaks down between people: the partner who heard something, the associate with last quarter's spreadsheet, the BD lead who already called half of it. In PE Radar the list, the facts and the team's read on every company live in one place, and every vote and note shows up in the firm's feed.
Votes with faces
Thumbs up or down on any company, one per person, with the faces of who voted. The team's temperature on a row is visible at a glance, and nobody calls a company a partner already passed on.
Notes on every company
A note lives on the company, not in a thread somewhere else. The reason you passed in March is on the row in September, and it lands in the feed the moment it's written.
Owner is second-generation. Worth the first call this month.
Mostly structural steel. Not a fit for the thesis.
One feed, every Monday
Every list lands in the firm's Activity feed with reactions and a thread. Watched lists re-run weekly and post what's new. Partners read it on Monday; associates work it by Tuesday.
Partners
Five minutes on Monday: which lists grew, what the team liked, what they passed on and why. Enough to point the week's attention without a deck.
Associates
One company you're excited about becomes the list by lunch. Refine it from the team's votes instead of rebuilding it from a stale spreadsheet.
Business development
The liked rows are the call list, with the note that says why. Export when you need it in your own system.
What the lists are drawn from
2.1M
Owner-operated companies analyzed and scored
26k
Strong targets identified by score or P(EBITDA ≥ $2M)
51
States covered
10k+
PE buyers monitored, so a crowded sector is known before you call
Trust & data
Built to be trusted by the firms that use it.
Public information and derived facts. Nothing a company shared privately, ever. Firms are provisioned individually; your lists, votes and notes are yours alone.
- No owner contact or engagement data, ever
- Lists, votes and notes are scoped to your firm
- Lists refresh weekly; the database nightly
- CSV export for your own models and CRM
Data model: what a list shows
| Tier | Data | Shown |
|---|---|---|
| Public | Company name, website, location, deal announcements | Yes |
| Derived | Match strength, P(EBITDA ≥ $2M), headcount, revenue, founding, owner tenure, highlights | Yes |
| Sensitive | Owner contacts, conversations, replies, meetings, financials | Never |
Weekly
watched lists grow
Per firm
provisioning & isolation
Invite-only
limited per sector
Request an invite
Bring one company you wish you had ten more of.
Lower-middle-market PE firms, independent sponsors and search funds. Access is limited per sector so the edge stays an edge. Tell us who you are and what you buy; we'll set your team up and your first list runs the same day.
- Whole-team access: votes, notes and faces on every list
- Lists that grow every Monday and post to your feed
- 100 credits to start, a shared pool for the whole firm
- CSV export; no contacts, ever