Sound familiar?

"Determined to buy and run a small business, but not sure where to actually start?"
"Spinning your wheels reviewing deal after deal that never goes anywhere?"
"Keep getting to LOI, then feel overwhelmed trying to drive the process to a close?"
"Lying awake wondering which big diligence questions you're going to miss?"
"Tired of accelerators and courses that give shallow advice but no real support?"
"Searching while employed, and need someone to keep your deal on track while you're at work?"
"Staring at an SBA lender checklist and not sure what they actually want to see?"
"Negotiating alone against a seller and broker who've done this before?"
"Found 'the one' and terrified of fumbling it between LOI and closing?"

You don't need another course. You need someone in the deal with you.

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Deal Execution Advisory for ETA Searchers

Your Deal Partner
From First CIM
to Closing Table

Dunmore Bay Advisors works exclusively with entrepreneurship-through-acquisition searchers buying businesses with $500K - $3MM in SDE — providing hands-on support across deal screening, SBA financing, due diligence, negotiation, and closing, so you get to the finish line on the right deal, at the right terms.

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50+ Deals Executed
IB + PE Trained — applied to your deal
SBA 7(a) Fluent — we speak lender
1 Client Type: Searchers — this is all we do
WHERE WE PLUG IN
Search Define criteria & sourcing
Screen CIMs & broker deals
LOI Offer & terms
Financing SBA 7(a) package
Diligence Financial, legal, ops
Negotiate Purchase agreement
Close Funding & signing
Day 1 Owner with a plan
ABOUT

An Operator In Your Corner — Not
Another Cheerleader

The ETA world is full of content — podcasts, courses, accelerators, communities — and starved of actual execution support. Searchers are told what to do, then left alone to do it. That's where deals die.

We work differently: a trained deal professional working your transaction alongside you, from your first CIM to the closing table. If you're pursuing a business with $500K - $3MM in SDE, we plug in wherever you are and stay until the deal is done.

Self-Funded Searchers
Traditional Search Funds
Searching While Employed
SBA 7(a) Deal Structures
Services

Everything Between "I Want to Buy a Business" and "I Own One"

Engage us for the full journey or plug us into the stage where you're stuck. Every engagement is scoped around your deal, your timeline, and your budget.

01

Search Strategy & Deal Screening

Stop wasting months on deals that were never going to work. We help you define your acquisition criteria, build your sourcing approach, rapidly screen CIMs and broker listings, and pressure-test seller financials before you fall in love — so your energy goes only into deals worth chasing.

02

Valuation, Offers & LOI

Know what the business is actually worth and what a lender will finance. We build the model — SDE and EBITDA normalization, debt service coverage, sources & uses — help you set your offer, and draft an LOI with terms that protect you without scaring off the seller.

03

SBA Financing Support

The SBA 7(a) process makes or breaks most searcher deals. We prepare your lender package, build the sources & uses, structure the seller note and any equity injection to satisfy SBA rules, help you compare lender term sheets, and manage the bank's checklist so financing never becomes the bottleneck.

04

Due Diligence Management

Sleep at night knowing the big questions got asked. We build and run your diligence plan — financial, operational, legal, customer, and people — coordinate your Quality of Earnings provider and attorney, chase down every open item, and translate findings into a clear picture: proceed, renegotiate, or walk.

05

Negotiation & Purchase Agreement Advisory

Don't negotiate alone against a seller and broker who've done this before. We're at your side through price adjustments, working capital targets, reps and warranties, indemnities, seller transition terms, and non-competes — bridging what your attorney drafts and what the deal actually needs.

06

Process Management to Close (and Day 1)

The distance from LOI to closing is where searchers get overwhelmed. We run the master checklist, coordinate lender, attorney, accountant, landlord, and insurer, hold everyone to the timeline, and drive the deal to the closing table — then help you plan a clean Day 1 and first 90 days as the new owner.

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How We Work

Built Around Your Deal,
Not a Curriculum

Search Screen LOI Financing Diligence Negotiate Close Day 1

We're with you from screening to close — or wherever you're stuck.

01

Fit & Scoping Call

A free, confidential conversation about where you are in your search, what you're stuck on, and what support would actually move the needle. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you — and point you somewhere useful.

02

Engagement Design

We scope the engagement to your stage: full journey support, deal-by-deal execution, or targeted help (say, just diligence and closing). Clear deliverables, clear fees, no surprises.

03

In the Deal With You

This is the part nobody else offers. We work your live deal: screening, modeling, lender management, diligence, negotiation. Regular working sessions, fast turnarounds, and someone who answers when the deal gets weird — because it always does.

04

Close & Handoff

We drive the final stretch — closing conditions, funding mechanics, final documents — through signing and wiring. Then we make sure you walk into Day 1 as an owner with a plan, not a panic.

Why Dunmore Bay

Real Support.
Not Another Community.

You Work Directly With the Principal

No junior analysts, no "office hours," no getting lost in a cohort of 40. Every call, every model, every negotiation session — it's the principal, personally, on your deal.

Trained Where Deals Are Hard

Investment banking and private equity execution experience — dozens of closed transactions — applied to your acquisition. You get big-deal rigor sized for a small-business purchase.

Aligned With Getting You to Close

Flexible structures — retainer, milestone-based, or success-weighted — designed so we win when you close the right deal, and so you're never paying for fluff.

Discreet by Default

Searching while employed? Sensitive seller conversations? Every engagement runs under strict confidentiality. Your employer, your network, and the market hear nothing from us.

Where We Plug In
  • Defining your search criteria
  • Screening CIMs & broker deals
  • Making offers & drafting LOIs
  • SBA 7(a) financing & lender packages
  • Running due diligence
  • Negotiating the purchase agreement
  • Driving LOI → closing
  • Day 1 & first 90 days
Who We Work With
  • Self-funded searchers
  • Traditional search fund entrepreneurs
  • Searching-while-employed professionals
  • First-time buyers of SBA-eligible businesses
  • Buyers of businesses with $500K - $3MM in SDE
  • Searchers stuck mid-deal who need a closer
The Accelerator Gap

Courses Teach. Communities Cheer.
We Execute.

Accelerators and online communities are great for learning the map. But when you're staring at a real CIM, a real lender checklist, and a real seller across the table, the map isn't enough. That's the gap Dunmore Bay fills: a deal professional who does the work with you — building the model, managing the process, asking the questions you didn't know to ask — until the keys are in your hand.

Accelerators
Communities
Dunmore Bay
WHAT YOU GET
Frameworks & templates
Encouragement & vibes
A trained operator on your live deal
WHEN IT GETS HARD
Cohort call next week
Anecdotes from the group
Someone who answers, fast
WHO DOES THE WORK
You, alone
You, alone
We do it with you
OUTCOME
You know the map
You feel supported
Keys in your hand
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FAQ

Straight Answers Before You Reach Out

Accelerators teach you the playbook; we run plays with you. Communities give you peers; we give you a deal professional. When you work with Dunmore Bay, the deliverables are on your actual deal — the model for your target, the diligence list for your target, the negotiation strategy for your seller. If you've done an accelerator, we're the natural next step. If you haven't, you may not need one.

Either works. Some searchers engage us at the start to sharpen criteria and screen deals faster. Others call us the week they sign an LOI and realize what's coming. The one bad time to call is after you've signed a purchase agreement you didn't fully understand. If you're between those points, you're in our window.

We're not a buy-side brokerage and we don't sell deal flow. We help you build a sourcing approach that fits your search, and we screen what comes in — CIMs, broker listings, proprietary outreach responses — so you spend time only on deals that can actually close. Think of us as the filter and the closer, not the lead list.

Scoped to the engagement: a monthly retainer for ongoing search support, fixed fees for defined workstreams (like diligence management), or hybrid structures with a success component at closing. We'll give you a clear quote after the scoping call. What we won't do is charge you accelerator tuition for templates.

No. Every engagement is confidential by default, we'll sign an NDA on request, and we work around your schedule — early mornings, evenings, weekends. Many of our clients search nights-and-weekends; keeping your search invisible to your employer is a design requirement, not an accommodation.

Fluently. Equity injection rules, seller note standby requirements, DSCR expectations, personal guarantees, franchise and eligibility questions, and what different lenders actually care about. We build the lender package, structure sources & uses to satisfy SBA rules, and manage the bank's checklist so financing doesn't stall your deal.

Yes — and you'll get far more out of them with us in the room. We're not a law firm or accounting firm. We coordinate those advisors, translate their findings into deal decisions, and make sure their work happens on your timeline. We can also refer you to searcher-experienced attorneys, QoE shops, and lenders if you don't have them.

Deals die; searches shouldn't. If diligence reveals the business isn't what was advertised, helping you walk away is us doing our job — a bad acquisition costs you years, not fees. Depending on your engagement structure, we roll into the next deal with you rather than starting from zero.

SBA-eligible businesses with roughly $500K - $3MM in SDE, across most industries — services, trades, distribution, light manufacturing, healthcare services, and more. If your target is meaningfully larger, smaller, or outside SBA financing, reach out anyway; we'll tell you quickly whether we're the right fit and point you elsewhere if not.

Our standard model is advisory fees, which keeps our advice clean — we get paid to protect you, not to get the deal done at any cost. In select cases we may discuss aligned structures, but only when you raise it and only where it doesn't compromise objectivity.

No, but first-timers are our core. If you've bought before and just need horsepower — someone to run diligence or drive a stalled process to close — we offer targeted engagements for exactly that.

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Let's Talk About
Your Search

Whether you're six months from your first offer or six days from a diligence deadline, reach out for a free, confidential conversation. Come with a live deal, a stalled deal, or just a plan — we'll tell you honestly where we can help. Our sweet spot: SBA-eligible businesses with $500K - $3MM in SDE.

All enquiries are strictly confidential — including from employers. NDAs available on request.