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Accredited
Find exceptional businesses. Source like private equity.
Accredited gives individual buyers access to the kind of sourcing advantage usually reserved for private equity firms. Instead of sorting through broad, low-quality listings, buyers can discover exceptional businesses and use purpose-built tools to identify, evaluate, and pursue the right opportunities. It’s a more focused way to find and buy a great business.
We started Accredited for ourselves. We were actively looking to acquire cash-flowing, owner-operated businesses, and the sourcing process was a mess. Listings scattered across marketplaces. The same business posted three times under three different descriptions. The good ones gone before you saw them. No clean way to compare a $1.2M HVAC company in Ohio against a $900K landscaping business in Texas. No system to track what we had reached out to and what went cold.
Off-market was worse. Everyone tells you the best deals never hit a listing site, and they're right, but nobody tells you what that actually costs you. It meant pulling business lists from four different sources, cross-referencing them against state registries, hunting down an owner's contact info one business at a time, and mail-merging letters that half the time went to an address the company left in 2019. Weeks of work to build a list you could actually contact. We did it anyway, because that's where the deals were. We just hated every hour of it.
So we built the tool we wanted, for both sides of the problem. Then we opened it up.
We're super excited to get thoughts and feedback from the Product Hunt community!
This is a thoughtful approach to business acquisition. I especially like the focus on better sourcing and evaluation rather than simply adding more listings. I upvoted Accredited.
About Accredited on Product Hunt
“Find exceptional businesses. Source like private equity.”
Accredited was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #61 on the daily leaderboard. Accredited gives individual buyers access to the kind of sourcing advantage usually reserved for private equity firms. Instead of sorting through broad, low-quality listings, buyers can discover exceptional businesses and use purpose-built tools to identify, evaluate, and pursue the right opportunities. It’s a more focused way to find and buy a great business.
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Who hunted Accredited?
Accredited was hunted by Ben Sampson. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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