The Private Marketplace for Buying and Selling Service-Based Businesses
Meridian helps business owners explore a confidential sale while giving serious buyers access to better-prepared acquisition opportunities.
For Business Owners and Buyers on Opposite Sides of the Same Acquisition
Meridian helps service-business owners explore a private sale while giving serious buyers access to better-prepared business acquisition opportunities.
Explore Selling Your Business Privately Without a Public Listing
Understand your valuation, buyer fit, and exit options before exposing your company to the open market. Meridian helps you prepare the business, organize the right information, and move forward only when the next step is clear.
Explore Selling Your Business
Find Private Service-Business Acquisition Opportunities
Access privately surfaced off-market and pre-market service businesses with better information, clearer positioning, and a more professional path to diligence.
Request Buyer AccessWe don't showcase every business. We stay in our lane.
Meridian is a private deal marketplace — not a public listing site or broker. We focus exclusively on service-based businesses in the categories below, where operator quality, recurring revenue, and confidentiality matter most.
Home Services
HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, and other essential recurring-revenue trades.
Professional Services
Accounting, insurance, staffing, and advisory firms with established client bases.
Construction
Specialty contractors and regional builders with durable backlogs and crews.
Medical
Independent practices, clinics, and multi-site medical service groups.
IT & Managed Services
MSPs and technology service firms with recurring contracts and sticky clients.
Meridian Helps Business Owners Prepare Privately and Helps Buyers Find Better Acquisition Opportunities
We help owners organize the story, numbers, documents, and transition details buyers need to evaluate a business seriously. Then we surface qualified opportunities inside a private business acquisition marketplace built for real acquisition conversations.
Built From Real Business Acquisition Experience
After training thousands of serious business buyers, Carl Allen saw the seller-side problem clearly: good businesses were often underprepared, overexposed, or shown to the wrong buyers. Meridian was built to create a more private, prepared, and professional way for owners and buyers to connect.
For Business Owners Exploring a Private Sale
A structured, confidential path from first conversation to buyer-ready — without exposing your company to the open market.
- 1Request a private listing
Start a confidential conversation. No public posting, no broker network.
- 2Speak with a Meridian liaison
A short intro call to understand your business, timing, and goals.
- 3Complete the CIM Builder
Complete the CIM Builder so Meridian can understand the business, organize the right information, and present it properly to serious buyers.
- 4Provide core financial documents
Organize P&Ls, tax returns, and key contracts inside a secure workspace.
- 5Prepare the business for buyer review
Refine positioning, add-backs, and diligence materials before any outreach.
- 6Get surfaced privately to serious buyers when ready
Only vetted, qualified buyers see your opportunity — on your terms.
Explore what a confidential sale could look like.
- No public listing, no broker network
- Free preparation call with a Meridian liaison
- You control what buyers see, and when
Confidential by default. Nothing is shared without your written approval.
See privately surfaced service-business acquisitions.
- Opportunities not posted on public listing sites
- Prepared CIMs, financials, and transition details
- Direct path to serious diligence conversations
Access is reviewed. Meridian works with qualified, serious acquirers.
A preview of what's moving privately right now.
A live sample of service-business opportunities currently being prepared inside Meridian. Company details unlock after buyer access is approved.
Owner retiring, 12-tech crew, recurring service contracts.
80% MRR, healthcare vertical concentration, 6-year avg client tenure.
Licensed in 4 states, owner willing to stay 12–24 months post-close.
Sample listings shown for illustration. Live inventory updates continuously; qualified buyers see full CIMs, financials, and owner introductions after review.