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Sonar

The sourcing and origination engine.

10,000 buyers or sellers a month from one brief, enriched down to the owner.

Sonar has sourced 70,000 leads in a single month.

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BRIEFClient brief

Sector: industrial services

Side: buy-side

Region: ON, QC

Owner: founder-led

SONARMarket map · 212
Machining · ONFit
HVAC · QCFit
Fluids · ONFit
Fabrication · ONReview

The problem

A market map is days of manual list-building.

The databases behind it are priced for an enterprise desk, and the map is stale the day it is finished. Sonar builds it from a brief and keeps watching.

Features

01

Brief in, market map out.

Sonar takes a client brief and produces a market map: the universe of companies that fit, in a browse-and-filter view.

BRIEFClient brief

Sector: industrial services

Side: buy-side

Region: ON, QC

Owner: founder-led

SONARMarket map · 212
Machining · ONFit
HVAC · QCFit
Fluids · ONFit
Fabrication · ONReview

02

Enriched down to the owner's direct line.

More than 20 data sources run in a waterfall, best source first for each field: revenue band, headcount, ownership, the principal's email and phone.

SONAREnrichment
Revenue bandSource 03
HeadcountSource 07
Owner emailSource 12
Owner phoneSource 15
OwnershipSource 04
Best source per field, in order

03

Buyers as well as sellers.

For a sell-side process: every strategic with a public deal in the space, every financial buyer whose published criteria match, and their portfolio companies.

SONARBuyer map · Lantern
Strategic · 3 public dealsMatch
Sponsor · criteria matchMatch
Strategic · 1 public dealMatch
Portfolio company · affiliateMatch

04

Know the week a target changes.

Watch specific targets, sectors or businesses. New CFO, new location, new owner: it shows up in the mandate with a note on what changed.

SONARWatching · 3
Fluids · new CFO hireChanged
Sector: coatings · 4 newChanged
Controls · no change—

05

One step into Reticle.

A market map becomes a pipeline and an outreach campaign in Reticle, with the enrichment already on every record.

SONARMarket map · 212
212 records · enrichedSend to Reticle

Works with

One record across all three.

  • Reticle

    Maps become pipelines and campaigns.

  • Trove

    A buyer map from Sonar seeds the buyer groups in a sell-side room.

The hand-off

Sourced in Sonar. Run in Reticle. Closed in Trove.

BRIEFClient brief

Sector: Industrial Services

EBITDA Range: $2-5M

Ownership: Founder led

Region: CA / US

SONARProject Lantern

Finds and enriches the buyers and sellers worth calling.

CompanyRevenueEmail
✓Precision machiningBand Con file
Industrial HVACBand Bon file
✓Fluid handlingBand Con file
Metal fabricationBand Don file
✓PackagingBand Con file
✓Test equipmentBand Bon file
✓ControlsBand Con file
CoatingsBand Don file
Shared to Reticle ✓
RETICLEProject Lantern

Runs every mandate, call and task in one place.

Contacted

Test equipment
Controls

Engaged

Packaging

NDA

Fluid handling

LOI

Diligence

Precision machining
TROVEMeridian Precision Ltd.

Opens the data room and shows who read what.

01 Corporate
02 Financials
03 Commercial
04 Legal
05 Q&A
Buy-Side Lawyerviewing
Sell-Side LawyerNDA ✓
Target CEOviewing
Buyer CFONDA ✓
Groups inherited from Reticle
A brief becomes a list. The list becomes a pipeline. The pipeline opens the room. Nothing is re-keyed.

AI-first

API, MCP server and CLI.

An API, an MCP server and a CLI. Run a brief from an agent or on a schedule.

Example

A monitored sector re-runs weekly, and new matches land in the mandate's pipeline with a note on what changed.

Founding partners

We're selecting our founding partners.

A small group of firms will run their mandates on Vibanc first and shape what we build next. We review every application and choose by fit.

What we look for

  • — Advisors running live mandates, sell-side or buy-side.
  • — Firms ready to run on AI, not just try it.
  • — Partners who will tell us what to build next.

Tell us about your practice. We read every application.

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