Off-market deal sourcing with no upfront fee, what actually works?

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May 12, 2026

by a searcher from Imperial College London - Imperial College Business School in Wakefield, UK

I’m looking at using an off-market search business / deal sources to help find targets for Project Forge. The issue is I don’t want to pay meaningful upfront fees before a deal is real. For people who’ve done this, what structure actually works in practice, and what gets serious sources engaged without cash upfront?
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from University of Oxford in Glasgow, UK
A tool like UK Data Access from www.uspdata.co.uk is a good starting point. You are doing the searching yourself using this access to the latest data and can screen by geography, financials, ownership profile, sector etc etc.
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from Imperial College London in Wakefield, UK
Great thank you.
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