Off-market deal alerts for qualified acquirers. Join the WETYR Buyer Registry to receive confidential teasers on sell-side mandates and operator-buyer pass-through opportunities before they hit any public marketplace. Free. Mutual NDA required before financials.
Who The Registry Is For
Search funders raising or in-search, holdco operators, family offices with direct-deal mandates, PE platforms looking for bolt-ons, and individual operator-buyers with capital and a defined acquisition thesis. The registry is not for tire-kickers, brokers reselling to their own list, or unfunded buyers without a credible source of acquisition capital.
What You'll Receive
- 1-2 confidential teasers per month, matched to your stated criteria (niche, geography, EBITDA range, structure preference)
- WETYR's quarterly multiples report 48 hours before public release
- Direct introductions to sellers when there is a fit (not a public broker process)
- Off-market opportunities sourced through WETYR's proprietary owner outreach
Registry Application
How Sellers Are Vetted
Every mandate WETYR sends to the registry has been pre-engaged: financials reviewed, value-driver diagnostic completed, seller motivation verified, and a structured process committed. You will not receive cold blasts, untested listings, or "for sale by owner" leads. The cost of being on the registry is sustained selectivity — buyers who routinely waste seller time get removed.
Why WETYR Runs A Registry vs A Public Marketplace
Public marketplaces (Empire Flippers, BizBuySell) optimize for breadth — many buyers see many listings, conversion happens at scale. The WETYR registry optimizes for fit. Each teaser goes only to buyers whose stated criteria match the mandate. That produces higher-quality conversations on both sides: sellers don't field 200 unqualified inbounds, buyers don't sift through 10x deals that don't fit. The trade-off is volume — registry members may receive only 1-2 teasers per month, but those teasers are matched.
Authoritative Sources & Further Reading
WETYR works alongside primary sources, regulators, and industry data providers when advising owners and operators. The references below are the same sources our advisory team uses when modeling deals, benchmarking multiples, and stress-testing assumptions. We encourage every owner, buyer, and operator to verify any data point that materially affects their decision against the underlying primary source.
Primary Federal Sources
- U.S. SBA — 7(a) Loan Program for acquisition financing eligibility, terms, and lender list.
- SEC EDGAR for public-company comparables, 10-K disclosures, and recent strategic acquirer filings.
- IRS — Sale of a Business on Section 1060 asset-allocation reporting and tax treatment of asset vs stock sales.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Industries at a Glance for wage, employment, and growth data by NAICS code.
- U.S. Census Economic Census for industry size, firm counts, and revenue distributions.
- Federal Reserve Economic Data for prevailing rate environment underwriting.
Standards & Reference Bodies
- AICPA for Quality of Earnings methodology and CPA standards governing transaction-related financial work.
- FINRA Rules and Guidance for understanding when a transaction crosses into broker-dealer territory.
- NACVA business valuation credentialing body and standards (CVA designation).
- USPAP — Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice for valuation engagement standards.
- Investopedia — EBITDA reference page for definitional alignment with our glossary.
- Harvard Business Review — Mergers and Acquisitions archive on integration and post-close value creation.
For deeper transaction-specific data, the GF Data and PitchBook private-company transaction databases publish quarterly multiple ranges by industry size band that we cross-reference against our own pipeline benchmarks. Owners considering a sale should also review the Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Report (free, annual) for current cost-of-capital and lender appetite data across the lower middle market. Buyers underwriting search-fund or holdco theses commonly pair Stanford GSB's Search Fund Study with the IBBA Market Pulse report, which tracks multiples for sub-$50M transactions quarterly. None of these sources replace deal-specific advisory, but they give owners and operators the same reference points professional acquirers are using on the other side of the table.
Related WETYR Resources
Every WETYR resource ladders into a structured engagement framework. Whether you are diagnosing readiness, modeling a number, or preparing for a specific transaction phase, the resources below cover the most common owner and operator workflows. All tools are free; all guides are operator-written; all engagements start with a confidential conversation.
Engagement Pillars
Decision Tools
Operator-Written
Glossary & FAQ
Checklists & Templates
Niche Coverage
If you are not sure where to start, the Exit Readiness Score takes about four minutes and produces a one-page diagnostic on the value drivers most likely to compress your multiple. From there the natural next step is either a long-form guide covering your specific situation, a focused glossary term lookup, or a confidential introductory call with our team to discuss whether WETYR's advisory or operator-buyer engagement is a fit. Our team responds to every inbound inquiry within one business day.