Acquire Startup Listings data for agents

How an agent would call it

{
  "tool": "search",
  "arguments": {
    "query": "<your real query>",
    "sources": ["acquire"],
    "runId": "<from run_begin>"
  }
}

Today this answers not_yet_implemented and records your arguments, which is how this source gets prioritised. Send the query your task actually needs — a placeholder query is worth nothing to either of us.

Routing guidance

What an agent reads to decide whether acquire is the right source, and what to reach for when it is not.

Answers

What a startup is FOR SALE at, and on what numbers. Deal sourcing, asking-price and revenue-multiple comparables, and reading a seller’s own price justification. Returns asking price with its full drop history, TTM and monthly revenue and profit, annual growth, customer and churn bands, tech stack, competitors, growth opportunities, key assets, and a per-year P&L snapshot.

Query shape

A listing URL resolves that one listing. `key:value` filters combine with free words — category, sort, minPrice, maxPrice, minRevenue, maxRevenue, minProfit, minGrowth, customers, location. An unknown filter key or value is refused and named, never silently ignored.

Cost

Metered per listing collected, plus a per-run fee. Billing follows rows COLLECTED, not rows returned — a narrow filter over a wide window still pays for the whole window.

Latency

Fast (~10s).

Prefer instead

`trustmrr` when you need revenue verified through a connected payment provider, or a company that is not for sale — every figure here is seller-declared. Use both for a valuation: asking price here, verified revenue there. `producthunt` or `hackernews` for launches and traction rather than a sale.

Cannot answer

Who the seller is — listings are anonymised until an NDA is signed, and no attempt is made to unmask them. Buyer-side or closed-deal data. Anything off the marketplace.

Caveat

The marketplace publishes no search API. Without an authenticated session, filters and sorting are ignored upstream, so a filtered search scans only the first N listings rather than the full marketplace. Widen the cap to widen the scan.

Caveat

A listing marked verified means the marketplace reviewed the listing, not that the money was audited.

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