We find your next opportunity, and help you win it.
MergeSearch is the research desk behind your next mandate. Tell us the brief; a finished, source-linked market map lands within 24 hours. It’s the depth that makes you the expert in the room.
- First month free
- Within 24 hours
- Every figure source-linked
Market Map
Payments Platform CFO
US · Dallas–Fort Worth
The answer, first
Feasible in 14–18 weeks. The search hinges on the right gate, not the obvious one.
4.5/5
Scarcity
~$575k
CFO first-year cash
The spine
In live use, every week
Our market maps go into live client pitches every week. Consultants walk in with depth they never had time to build, and win the kind of mandate that pays for the map many times over.
The problem
Nobody walks into the pitch having read the market.
You are competing for the mandate against three to ten other firms, and none of you has the market study behind you, because a researcher week costs a week whether the mandate lands or not. The homework has always started after the award.
Three to ten firms pitch for the same mandate
That is the count the US federal award record puts on a competed search (NAICS 561312). Same brief, same fortnight, same references.
A researcher week costs a week either way
It costs the same whether the mandate lands or not. No research bench in this industry is staffed against a pitch, and arithmetic decided that, not anyone at your firm.
So the market read starts after the award
The study gets built once the work is signed, weeks after the pitch it would have won. Everyone walks into that pitch with what they already knew.
The system
So we built a research desk that runs before the pitch.
You send one line of brief. A finished map is in your portal within 24 hours, in your own brand, with the public source behind every figure a click away. Nobody at your firm loses a week to it.
We surface the opportunity
We watch your market continuously against your own criteria. A new CEO, a buyout, a funding round, a senior departure: every move that could open a search lands in your portal, with a line on why it is yours. Included on every plan.
We build the winning read
The Market Map: the market, the money, the talent, the plan. Answer-first, every figure source-linked and labeled fact, estimate or inference.
You walk in the expert
You show up the most prepared person in the room, on a sector you met yesterday, and open work before a search even starts.
How the map gets built.
A study like this arrives tomorrow because the desk is a system rather than a room of people. MergeSearch runs on research agents we built and operate, one per module of the map, working the primary record in parallel. Then the checking starts, and that is the part you can hold us to.
Send the brief
Sector, role, what’s off-limits. One short intake, that’s all it takes.
Agents build the map
One research agent per module, working filings, registries, compensation data and press at the same time.
The gate checks the work
Every cited source is re-fetched and every figure has to still stand on the page. What fails goes to one of us, and each number ships labeled fact, estimate or inference.
It lands within 24 hours
A finished map under your own brand: the answer, the evidence, the longlist.
Executive search is the wedge we run today. See it for search firms →
Inside the intelligence
Built from the primary record.
Every map triangulates dozens of public, primary sources, so a figure holds up when a client goes and checks it.
Regulatory filings
SEC proxies, Form Ds, WARN notices
Compensation data
Real bands from filings & surveys
Ownership & registries
PE holdings, company records
Hiring & leadership signals
Moves, postings, departures
Press & primary sources
Deal releases, funding, news
Market & gov statistics
Sizing, growth, cluster data
The deliverable
What lands in your portal.
You can open it in front of the client. Click any figure and the public filing behind it opens right there; export a table straight into your own deck, under your own logo. Below is a real one, from a live payments-CFO mandate, names redacted. Yours arrives on your own brief.
Market Map · Executive-search intelligence
Payments Platform CFO
US · Dallas–Fort Worth
A PE-backed, ~$200M integrated-payments / ISV-platform CFO mandate, two years into the hold, bolt-ons running. The talent, the money, the market, the plan.
The hidden gate
The generalist prices in the wrong gate.
What binds isn’t the licensing reflex. It’s payments revenue-recognition fluency, exit-readiness scar tissue, and a pitch built on equity and the CFO→CEO on-ramp.
The headline numbers
60–110
estMovable core
modeled · ~5–10 in TX
~$575k
estCFO first-year cash
band $475k–$700k
~$173k
estMandate value
+ follow-on account
Source · hover any figure
Six public payments-peer DEF 14A comp tables, size-discounted + PE-adjusted. Click to open the filing ↗
Every figure opens to its public source · export any table · labeled by confidence.
Get one built on your brief, free →Two minutes tells you if it’s winnable
Every module opens on its call, the one thing it found, with the working underneath. Read the top of each and you have the search.
Answer “where is that from?” on the spot
Hover a figure and the public source is one click away. Every number is labeled fact, estimate or inference, so you never have to promise to come back on it.
Walk in with it
The talent, the money, the market and the plan in one read. Export any table, quote any source, defend every figure in the room.
In the portal
Reach the opening first. Learn what your client read.
Be the first firm to call about the move.
The Opportunity Monitor spots an opening in your market. One press turns it into a brief with the company, the seat and the source already filled in, so the map is being built while the news is still fresh.
Know what your client read before the second meeting.
Send the map as a link, under your brand. You see when they opened it and which sections held them. Six minutes on compensation tells you what the next conversation is about.
Four more things we are building into the portal now.
- Marking what you wonTag a map pitched, won or lost, and the portal will show what your research is returning.
- Watching named firmsYour target account list will be monitored alongside your sectors.
- Re-running a mapAny map will run again against fresh data and whatever you have learned since.
- A profile that compoundsEvery brief you send will make the next map sharper on your markets.
Your brief, free
Seen enough? Get the same, built on your mandate, free.
You’ve seen the depth. Hand us one line (your sector and the role) and the same finished map lands on your brief, within 24 hours. No card, no call. If it isn’t worth it, you walk away and it cost you nothing.
- The hidden gate: the non-obvious read a generalist misses
- Five headline numbers: each with its source, one hover away
- Comparable placements: real, named moves in your sector
- A ringed longlist + named pool: real companies, straight from public sources
- A source for every figure: each links out to where it came from
Pricing
Your research desk, on a plan that fits.
Your first month is free, two maps on your own briefs, no card needed.
Desk
FIRST MONTH FREE$975 / map
First month free, no card required.
Two prepared pitches a month, for a fraction of what the same groundwork costs any other way. Nothing is held back on this plan: the maps, the Opportunity Monitor and your own brand are all here.
- 2 Market Maps every month: A finished, source-linked map on every brief you send.
- Opportunity Monitor, included: We watch your market continuously and put every opening that could become a search in your portal.
- Your own brand: Export any map under your logo, colors and cover.
- Within 24 hours: Send a brief, upload what you have, or just name the client.
Practice
$780 / map
Everything in Desk, with the rest of your team on it. The rung where every partner pitches with the same depth behind them, not only the one who sent the brief.
- Everything in Desk: The Opportunity Monitor, your own brand, within 24 hours.
- 5 Market Maps every month: Enough for every pitch worth preparing for.
- 3 seats: Your partners work from the same portal, on the same maps.
- $780 a map: Against $975 a map on Desk.
Firm
$650 / map
Everything in Practice, at the pace a full firm pitches. Twelve maps a month across ten seats, and when two land in the same hour yours is the one that builds first.
- Everything in Practice: Plus the two things a busy firm runs out of first: maps and seats.
- 12 Market Maps every month: Twelve finished maps, built and reviewed before release.
- 10 seats: Every consultant in the firm.
- Priority in the build queue: Your maps are built first when two land together.
Every plan is cancel-anytime, no contract.
Finished maps for less than a junior analyst, and the free first one proves it. A single won mandate covers your plan many times over.
Full pricing →Questions
Straight answers.
We already have our own research team.
Good, and they are not idle. They are loaded with the mandates you have already signed, which is where they should be. This is for the ones you have not won yet. Nobody staffs a researcher on a pitch they will probably lose, so that pitch has always gone in without the market read behind it. That is the gap this fills, and it takes nothing off anyone’s desk. You get the map and the longlist; the read on fit stays with your people.
Is this just ChatGPT?
No, and there is no point pretending there is no AI in it. A chat window hands you a fluent answer and leaves the checking to you. This is an agent system we built and run: research agents work your brief module by module, then a verification gate re-fetches every source we cite and checks the figures still stand on the page. Our name is on what comes back.
I already pay for PitchBook and AlphaSense. Why pay for this too?
They are not substitutes. Those are seats in a platform you operate: you get the data and the search bar, and turning it into the read is still a job on somebody’s desk. This is the finished document instead. Keep the subscriptions, send us the brief, and a map comes back within 24 hours with every figure linked to the public source behind it.
Can I put this in front of a client?
Yes, it’s built to be. Every figure links to the public source it came from, and estimates are labeled as estimates. No client files, nothing private. You can defend any number in the room.
What happens to my brief, and to my pipeline?
Your brief builds your map and nothing else. We don’t resell your work and we don’t build another firm’s map out of it. Your off-limits go in at intake and stay in, and the Opportunity Monitor runs on the public record, never on your pipeline. What you tell us about a live mandate stays with us.
What am I risking?
One line of brief and a month. Your first month is free: two Market Maps on your own briefs, no card. Every plan is cancel-anytime. If the first map isn’t worth it, you stop.
Start
Your next opportunity, found and won.
Tell us the move you’re working on. We build your first Market Map on your brief, free for your first month, so you hold the finished thing before you pay a cent.