--- name: "longlists_buyers" area: "longlists" title: "Find buyers for a company" price: "$0.05 per buyer returned" method: "POST" url: "https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/longlists_buyers" mcp_server: "https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/longlists" auth: "Authorization: Bearer " docs_url: "https://conecto.chat/tools/longlists/longlists_buyers" --- # Find buyers for a company (`longlists_buyers`) 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. 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. Price: $0.05 per buyer returned. A call that fails costs nothing. ## Use it when When selling a company, to find the strategic buyers to approach first. - For companies to buy, use [longlists_find](https://conecto.chat/tools/longlists/longlists_find.md). ## Say this to your agent > Our competitor in Lyon, 30 staff and €6 million revenue, may sell. Which bigger companies in our industry could buy it? ## Inputs | Name | Type | Required | Description | Allowed values | Default | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | `target` | object | yes | The company to sell: its id, or its industries, size and country. | | | | `target.company` | string | no | A company id from companies_search. Up to 40 characters. | | | | `target.industries` | array of strings | no | NACE Rev. 2 codes: a division (28), a group (28.9) or a class (28.93). Norway and newer Finnish filings are on NACE Rev. 2.1, searched under what each code became. 1 to 10 items. | | | | `target.employees` | integer | no | 1 to 10,000,000,000,000. | | | | `target.revenue_eur` | number | no | 1 to 10,000,000,000,000. | | | | `target.country` | string | no | Matches ^[A-Za-z]{2}$. | | | | `value_chain` | array of objects | no | Industries along the value chain, with their role towards the target. Up to 10 items. | | | | `value_chain[].code` | string | yes, in each item of `value_chain` | Up to 8 characters. | | | | `value_chain[].role` | string | yes, in each item of `value_chain` | | `"supplier"`, `"customer"`, `"adjacent"` | | | `countries` | array of strings | no | 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 | no | 1 to 100. | | `25` | ## Example Written for Hansen & Voss, a restaurant-equipment wholesaler in Hamburg with 60 staff. MCP: call `longlists_buyers` on the MCP server `https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/longlists` with these arguments: ```json { "target": { "industries": [ "28.93" ], "employees": 30, "revenue_eur": 6000000, "country": "FR" }, "countries": [ "FR", "NO" ], "limit": 5 } ``` REST: ```bash curl 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}' ``` ## Response ```json { "call_id": "5f0c8a2e-3b7d-4c1e-9a64-2d8e1f7b0c93", "tool": "longlists_buyers", "status": "succeeded", "replayed": false, "cost_usd": "$0.25", "balance_usd": "$19.75", "result": { "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": 86582337.0, "currency": "EUR", "year": 2025 }, "net_income": { "amount": 4958926.0, "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": 41391398.0, "currency": "EUR", "year": 2024 }, "net_income": { "amount": 4012780.0, "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." } } ``` `result`: companies (the buyers: id, name, country, number, city, industry, employees, revenue, score, reasons, source), considered, unavailable, notes and scoring. ## Errors | Code | Status | When | Fix | |---|---|---|---| | `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. | The refusals every tool can give (401 key, 402 balance, 429 limits) are on the errors page: https://conecto.chat/docs/errors.md ## Related - [longlists_find](https://conecto.chat/tools/longlists/longlists_find.md): Companies that fit a brief (industry, headcount, revenue, distance, ownership) from four registers, each scored out of 100 with its reasons. $0.02 per company returned.