Find buyers for a company

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Companies that could buy a company, in its industry or the value chain you name and at least twice its size, scored out of 100.

$0.05 per buyer returned

From your agent’s balance. A call that fails costs nothing.

Our competitor in Lyon, 30 staff and €6 million revenue, may sell. Which bigger companies in our industry could buy it?

Your agent callslonglists_buyers$0.05 per buyer returned

The example business is Hansen & Voss, a restaurant-equipment wholesaler in Hamburg with 60 staff. The reply is the one the tool really gives.

With these arguments

{
  "target": {
    "industries": [
      "28.93"
    ],
    "employees": 30,
    "revenue_eur": 6000000,
    "country": "FR"
  },
  "countries": [
    "FR",
    "NO"
  ],
  "limit": 5
}

What comes back

{
  "companies": [
    {
      "id": "fr:946250420",
      "name": "RATIONAL WITTENHEIM SAS",
      "country": "FR",
      "number": "946250420",
      "status": "active",
      "city": "Wittenheim",
      "industry": {
        "scheme": "NACE Rev. 2",
        "code": "28.93",
        "label": "Manufacture of machinery for food, beverage and tobacco processing"
      },
      "founded": "1962-01-01",
      "employees": {
        "min": 100,
        "max": 199
      },
      "revenue": {
        "amount": 86582337,
        "currency": "EUR",
        "year": 2025
      },
      "net_income": {
        "amount": 4958926,
        "currency": "EUR",
        "year": 2025
      },
      "ownership": {
        "signal": "independent",
        "basis": "inferred",
        "evidence": "No company among its leaders in the register; a group can still own it"
      },
      "source": "https://annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr/entreprise/946250420",
      "score": 91,
      "reasons": [
        "Industry 28.93 (Manufacture of machinery for food, beverage and tobacco processing): the same industry as asked",
        "Revenue €86.6M, 14 times the target's €6.0M"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "fr:875420192",
      "name": "MAGUIN SAS (K MAGUIN)",
      "country": "FR",
      "number": "875420192",
      "status": "active",
      "city": "Charmes",
      "industry": {
        "scheme": "NACE Rev. 2",
        "code": "28.93",
        "label": "Manufacture of machinery for food, beverage and tobacco processing"
      },
      "founded": "1954-01-01",
      "employees": {
        "min": 100,
        "max": 199
      },
      "revenue": {
        "amount": 41391398,
        "currency": "EUR",
        "year": 2024
      },
      "net_income": {
        "amount": 4012780,
        "currency": "EUR",
        "year": 2024
      },
      "ownership": {
        "signal": "group",
        "basis": "stated",
        "evidence": "Président de SAS: MORET INDUSTRIES PARTICIPATIONS (fr:585781305)"
      },
      "source": "https://annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr/entreprise/875420192",
      "score": 91,
      "reasons": [
        "Industry 28.93 (Manufacture of machinery for food, beverage and tobacco processing): the same industry as asked",
        "Revenue €41.4M, 7 times the target's €6.0M"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "considered": {
    "FR": 25,
    "NO": 7
  },
  "unavailable": [],
  "notes": [
    "Norway's register lists headcount but no revenue in a search: revenue counts as unknown (half marks); companies_financials reads the accounts per company.",
    "Deal history counts the acquisitions made under the buyer's own name since 2021 (mergers_search); a group that buys through another company counts apart."
  ],
  "scoring": "The share of these points: industry 30 (20 for a supplier or customer industry, 10 for an adjacent one), capacity 25 (three times the target or more; 15 for twice), country 15 (5 abroad), deal history 15 (its own acquisitions in the last five years). An unknown size or no deal on record earns half, and a NACE Rev. 2.1 class that also holds other industries two thirds of the industry's."
}

Use it when

When selling a company, to find the strategic buyers to approach first.

For companies to buy, use longlists_find.

What it does

Companies that could buy a company: in its industry, or in the value chain you name (suppliers, customers, adjacent industries), at least twice its size, in any country (registers where Conecto reads them, the businesses on the map elsewhere). Give the target as a company id, or as its industries with its headcount or revenue in euros. Each buyer comes back scored out of 100 for industry, size against the target, country and its own acquisitions on record (mergers_search), with its reasons.

What comes back

companies (the buyers: id, name, country, number, city, industry, employees, revenue, score, reasons, source), considered, unavailable, notes and scoring. Every reply also carries cost_usd and balance_usd.

Inputs

Name	Type	What it is
`target`Required	object	The company to sell: its id, or its industries, size and country.
`target.company`	string	A company id from companies_search. Up to 40 characters.
`target.industries`	array of strings	NACE Rev. 2 codes: a division (28), a group (28.9) or a class (28.93). Norway and newer Finnish filings are on NACE Rev. 2.1, searched under what each code became. 1 to 10 items.
`target.employees`	integer	1 to 10,000,000,000,000.
`target.revenue_eur`	number	1 to 10,000,000,000,000.
`target.country`	string	Matches ^[A-Za-z]{2}$.
`value_chain`	array of objects	Industries along the value chain, with their role towards the target. Up to 10 items.
`value_chain[].code`Required	string	Up to 8 characters.
`value_chain[].role`Required	string	One of: supplier,customer,adjacent.
`countries`	array of strings	The countries to search, as ISO codes ("DE", "BR") or names ("Germany", "Brasil"). Any country works: one whose register Conecto reads comes from it, every other from the businesses on the map (Overture Maps, and OpenStreetMap daily in Germany). Left out: the registers Conecto reads. 1 to 30 items.
`limit`	integer	1 to 100. Default: 25.

The call

Over MCP, call longlists_buyers on https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/longlists. Over REST:

Terminal

curl -X POST https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/longlists_buyers \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CONECTO_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"target":{"industries":["28.93"],"employees":30,"revenue_eur":6000000,"country":"FR"},"countries":["FR","NO"],"limit":5}'

When it refuses

A refused call costs nothing and says what to do next.

Code	When	What to do
`invalid_input`400	No target, an industry code that isn't NACE, or a country whose register can't be searched by industry.	Give the target as a company id, or as its industries with its size.
`not_found`404	The register has no company with that id.	Find it with companies_search.
`unavailable`503	None of the registers asked answered.	Try again in a minute.

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