The school for self-funded searchers
Buy your first business.
Off-market deal flow on demand. A search process that actually converts. The discipline to walk away from a bad deal before it costs you. Free community. Real systems. No secrets.
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The real enemy
The bad deal is the enemy.
Most search content teaches you how to buy. Almost none of it teaches you when not to. One wrong acquisition can take your savings, your credit, and years of your life. So every system here runs both directions: a machine that fills your pipeline, and the checklists that kill bad deals before you sign for them.
Why we teach it this wayThe four jobs
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Searchers come here to do four jobs. Every course, call, and checklist in the school maps to one of them.
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Get off-market leads.
1,000 in your buy box, enriched and scored, from a $69-a-month stack you own. Not a $1,500-a-month platform subscription.
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Master the search process.
Buy box to LOI: targets, cadence, screening scorecards, and the conversion math that keeps a pipeline honest.
03
Build a diligence bench.
How to pick QoE, legal, and lending partners who work for you, not for the closing, and the checklists to run them hard.
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Never sign a bad deal.
The 12 Red Flags and the walk-away doctrine, built from 60+ buyer post-mortems. Crash reports first. Checklists always.
The Three Sourcing Layers
Volume finds them. Public databases confirm them. Intelligence ranks them. That is the entire off-market game, and it is teachable in five days.
Learn it in the ChallengeThe ladder
Start free. Go as deep as your search demands.
Searcher School
Free
The community. 770+ searchers, the How to Search crash course, live events, and every win and post-mortem we publish.
Join freeOff-Market Leads Challenge
$197
Five days. 1,000 real off-market leads in your buy box, enriched and scored. Offered monthly.
Take the ChallengeSearcher Advisors
By application
Full-service buy-side representation. A principal on your side of the table.
Request a conversationFrom the community
Outcomes, with names attached.
“The Off Market Lead Challenge was a game-changer. Jed broke down how to leverage Claude and other tools to build a detailed buy box, scrape multiple databases, enrich the data, and create a validation scorecard. In 5 days, I generated 1,930 leads ready to roll after our warm-up period.”
“I went into the week as the proverbial tire kicker and came out as a professional searcher.”
“We closed yesterday.”
Questions
Straight answers.
What is Searcher School?
Searcher School is an education community for self-funded searchers and first-time business buyers. It teaches an AI-first, off-market search system: sourcing, screening, underwriting, and closing. The free community lives on Skool and has 770+ members.
What does it cost?
The community is free. The Off-Market Leads Challenge is $197. Searcher Academy is $17,000 and capped at 25 seats per cohort. Searcher Advisors is a private engagement, priced after an application and a conversation.
Will this help me avoid a bad deal?
That is the point of the whole curriculum. The 12 Red Flags, the walk-away doctrine, and the diligence checklists are all built from 60+ buyer post-mortems: documented reasons real acquisitions died. You learn to kill bad deals early, before the sunk costs start arguing with you.
What is the Off-Market Leads Challenge?
A five-day live challenge, offered monthly. You build a tracker of 1,000 real off-market leads in your buy box using Claude, Apify, and public databases. About 90 minutes a day.
Is this another guru course?
No. There are no promises about your outcome, because nobody honest can make them. There are systems, live reps, and checklists built from documented failures. The community is free, so you can inspect everything before a dollar moves.
Do I need to be technical?
No. If you can write an email, you can run the stack. Every tool is set up live, step by step, during the Challenge.
Your first lead is closer than you think.
Join 770+ searchers running the system. Free.