Capability 02 · Find
Which ones should we go after first?
Find the highest-conviction targets, programs or borrowers. Originate bilateral acquisition and AI-native tuck-in targets outside banker auctions, cross-reference institutional RFP awards and manufacturing tolerances against funded programs, and qualify mid-market borrowers and commercial accounts.
You getScorecard and shortlist: AI research, checked by our analysts.
Discuss your projectSee what you receive ↓What you get, and what you provide
Scorecard and shortlist.
Turn a fragmented sector or tender pipeline into a conviction shortlist. We score acquisition targets, funded programs, suppliers or borrowers on your criteria, with sources and evidence gaps beside every rank.
- Who it is for
- Buyout funds, corporate development teams, prime contractors, commercial lenders and advisory practices.
- What you get
- A ranked, editable shortlist across targets, tenders or borrowers, with per-entity briefs, capability or credit flags and source references.
- Format
- Spreadsheet with editable weights and per-company drill-down; document; slides on request.
- Scope and timing
- Scope, formats and delivery dates agreed before work starts.
- What you provide
- The target universe or tender pipeline, your technical or financial screening criteria, and a contact on your team to agree the scope with us.
- Refresh
- On your calendar, when the deal pipeline, tender schedule or loan book changes.
Every score sits beside the technical certification, permit, financial signal or program requirement that produced it. Change the weights and the shortlist re-sorts; where a figure is unverified, the cell stays flagged.
Program & certification fit — Strong
high- Quality registry[Certificate]“Holds active aerospace and welding certifications across main plant.”
- Trade press[Interview]“Management comment on defence backlog; not independently verified.”
How we run it
- 01You
Define the acquisition, tender-capture or lending decision the shortlist serves.
- 02Together
Agree the universe, the technical or financial criteria and the weights.
- 03AI agents
Cross-reference companies, permits, certifications and financial signals against your criteria.
- 04Our analysts
Challenge rankings, verify corporate ownership and explain the top-ranked targets; unverified figures stay flagged.
- 05You
Take the top targets into bilateral outreach or diligence, and re-weight the model as priorities shift.
Scope boundaries
The engagement covers research and analysis. The following are outside this work:
- An exhaustive private-company universe.
- Precise revenues from proxies.
- A guarantee of who will take the meeting.
How to start
One question, a fixed fee, a first read in days.
- Your question
- One live question, with the decision it serves.
- What comes back
- A reviewed answer with a point of view (a ranked shortlist, a diagnostic or a plan), with every source and anything unverified flagged.
- The fee
- The fee is fixed and agreed before work starts.
- The timing
- A first read in days, not weeks, then the reviewed brief on the date we agree.
We can provide regular research updates after the first project.
Anonymized engagements
A typical engagement.
Anonymized examples of delivered work.
140 → 12
An advisory firm
- The question
- Which of roughly 140 organizations in one market should our partners pursue first?
- Scope
- Every organization in the market, scored against the practice’s own service lines.
- What we delivered
- A scan of the market, a ranked shortlist of about 12 priority targets, and an opportunity matrix showing where the value sits at each.
- What happened next
- Partners used it to decide which organizations to approach first.
Commercial outcomes
Outcome programs powered by this capability.
Opportunity Assessment & Tender Capture
Focus commercial capital and bid budgets where you can win and expand margins.
Pre-LOI Diligence & Valuation Bridges
Originate off-market targets and stress-test seller claims pre-LOI.
Your context
Research for your team.
From the 15Rock Review
Field notes & whitepapers on Find.
Analyst-checked teardowns, benchmarks, and decision frameworks drawn from delivered engagements.
The 10-Month Pre-RFP Window: How Sub-Tier Suppliers and Investors Detect Defence Work Packages Before Tenders Hit Public Portals
By the time a defence RFP hits public tender portals, 82% of Tier-1/2 consortium workshare is already locked. Triangulating fiscal reallocations, bunker permits, and clearance…
The Emerging Defence Frontier: Mapping Sub-Tier Chokepoints Across Arctic Infrastructure, Tactical Drones, and Rare-Earth Energetics
While 84% of drone startups crowd into software and assembly, C$265M in domestic propulsion and EO/IR optics sits unserved—alongside midstream rare-earth separation and Arctic…
Pre-LOI Defence Commercial Due Diligence: Replacing Conflicting Market Reports with Sourced-vs.-Inferred Audits and Automated Valuation Bridges
Syndicated defence market reports diverge by up to 3.4x. Cell-level Sourced-vs.-Inferred provenance and a 15-minute intrinsic valuation bridge deliver IC certainty inside…
Start with one question
Which targets should your team take into diligence?
Tell us what you’re investigating and when you need an answer. We’ll discuss the scope, inputs and research that would help.