Acquisition operating system
Buy your first business with structure, confidence, and a clear operating plan.
EquityLift OS helps first-time acquirers and buy-and-build entrepreneurs source, assess, finance, negotiate and grow SME acquisitions using a step-by-step operating system.
- 10
- guided stages
- 16
- playbooks and templates
- 100
- point deal scorecard
- 90
- day growth plan
Built on practical experience across SME acquisitions, commercial due diligence, post-acquisition growth and buy-and-build strategy in owner-led businesses — cleaning, facilities management, electrical, plumbing, heating, fire safety, recruitment, care, nurseries and professional services.
If any of this sounds familiar, you're in the right place
You don't know what makes a good deal.
You're unsure how to speak to sellers.
You don't know what lenders need.
You're overwhelmed by due diligence.
You're worried about what happens after completion.
You're trying to build a group, not just buy a job.
Everything the process needs
Fourteen modules that carry you from first thesis to post-acquisition growth.
Acquisition Thesis Builder
Turn a vague ambition into precise buying criteria.
Target Pipeline
A CRM for owners, brokers and next actions.
Mandate & Screening Desk
Your criteria as numbers — every target scored against them.
Deal Scorecard
Score any target out of 100 across ten categories.
Valuation Suite
Five methods, one defendable range, on your own numbers.
Finance Readiness
Adjusted EBITDA, debt cover and the lender document list.
Seller Conversation Planner
The running order for a first owner call.
Data Room
Every document requested, received, chased and queried.
Due Diligence Room
Thirteen workstreams with owners and risk levels.
Document Builder
NDA, IOI, heads of terms and lender pack drafted from your data.
Offer Builder
Upfront, deferred, earnout and the rationale behind it.
90-Day Integration Roadmap
Stabilise, systemise, grow.
Buy-and-Build Strategy Map
Platform, bolt-ons, shared services, exit story.
Playbook Library
Sixteen practical templates and frameworks.
What you get beyond the roadmap
Screening, valuation, documents and a data room — the parts of a deal most buyers run in a pile of spreadsheets.
Screen more, read less
Write your mandate once as numbers. Every target in the pipeline is measured against it and ranked, with the red flags — asking multiple, thin margin, owner dependency, cold next actions — called out before you spend a week on a business you would never buy.
A number you can defend
EBITDA, seller discretionary earnings, revenue, discounted cash flow and net assets, all on the same inputs, with a range, an implied multiple and the equity value after debt. Every figure is computed from what you entered — nothing is invented.
The paperwork, drafted
Mutual NDA, indication of interest, heads of terms, information request list, buyer credentials and a lender pack summary — each one written from the deal data already in your workspace, ready to copy or download for your solicitor.
One place the information lands
A request list by category with status, owner and a link to every file, plus a running question-and-answer log, so you always know what is outstanding and what came back.
From first teaser to completion
Roadmap, thesis, pipeline, scoring, finance, diligence, offer and the first 90 days after completion — one target, one set of numbers, shared across every screen instead of eight spreadsheets.
Your workspace, on your account
Everything saves to your account as you type, so you can pick the deal back up on any device — and nothing you enter is shared with anyone else.
Simple, serious pricing
Operator
£249/month
The full acquisition workflow, end to end.
- Education modules, checklists and playbook library
- Deal scoring and finance readiness
- Diligence workspace and offer builder
- 90-day post-acquisition roadmap
- Acquisition coach assistant
Partner / Advisor
£499/month
For advisors and brokers supporting multiple buyers.
- Everything in Operator
- Multiple buyers and deals
- Client workspaces
- White-labelled roadmap exports
- Partner referral tracking
Stop reading about acquisitions. Start running a process.
Build your thesis, load your first targets, and see exactly what to do next.
Start your acquisition roadmap