The next wave of acquirers needs people like you.
Six million businesses are changing hands, bought by first-time acquirers, solo searchers, and independent sponsors taking on the hardest thing they have ever done. Your experience is the execution infrastructure that makes them succeed. Five Experts brings the clients to you and gives you one place to run the work.
Open to apply, and vetted. We review every application personally.
Your Five Experts engagements, all in one place.
Every Five Experts engagement in one dashboard: appointments, reviews, scheduling, payments, thought leadership, and your public profile.
Weekly overview
Visibility insights
12 profile shares this week
How often we shared your profile with searchers and independent sponsors
Your public profile
1 item left: publish a thought leadership post
Sample dashboard with representative data.
The clients come to you. You run the rest from one place.
Qualified clients come to you
We recommend you to the right member at the right phase, so inquiries arrive with context and intent. Your time goes to real engagements, not tire-kicking, and there's no business development on your end.
Run your engagements
Bookings, scheduling, chat, and payments in one dashboard. Every appointment is tracked from booked to completed, with your full history per client.
Get paid your way
Per session, or retainer, project, and ongoing. You set the rate; members book and pay through the platform.
Build your reputation
Reviews, ratings, and thought leadership build a profile that does the selling for you when you are recommended.
Experts are matched across all five phases, from search through exit, so the work recurs across a member's whole journey, not a single session.
You're part of a system. Not a name on a list.
On a marketplace, you do a session and disappear. Here, context travels with the deal: when a member moves from diligence to close to Year 1, you walk in already knowing the deal, the history, and what the last expert handled.
One deal, handed forward
A profile that does the selling for you.
Members see your experience, your reviews, your thought leadership, and your calendar in one place, and book you directly. Hourly, project-based, or retainer: you decide what you offer.
About me
Marketing executive with 15 years operating inside lower-middle-market services businesses. I build go-to-market engines owners can run without me.
✓ Rebuilt demand generation for a $2.4M EBITDA services platform; 31% revenue growth in Year 1
✓ Repositioned a regional HVAC brand post-acquisition; retained 96% of commercial accounts through transition
✓ Built the first marketing hire plan and playbook for six first-time owners
From the reviews
"Understood a first-year owner's constraints immediately. Practical, fast, zero fluff."
Phase 04 member · Services business
"Gave us a 90-day plan in the first session. We ran it and it worked."
Phase 04 member · Distribution
Thought leadership
The first 100 days of marketing a business you just bought · Article
Pricing power in boring industries · Podcast
Book a video call
30 Min · Zoom
$250.00 · Session
Session length
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Sample profile with representative data. Hourly sessions, project work, or retainers: you choose the engagement model and the rate.
30+ expert categories, mapped to five phases.
Every category below is live in the member command center, matched to the phase where it changes outcomes. Engagements run on your terms: hourly, project-based, or retainer. You choose what you offer and set the rate.
- ETA Advisor
- Financial Readiness Coach
- CEO Coach
- Mindset / Transition Coach
- Personal CPA / Tax Advisor
- ETA Advisor
- Deal Sourcing Specialist
- Financial Analyst
- M&A Advisor
- Buy-Side Business Broker
- Insurance Advisor
- M&A Attorney
- SBA Lender
- Deal Structuring Advisor
- QoE Provider
- Commercial Diligence Specialist
- Tax Advisor
- Environmental / Property Specialist
- Fractional CFO
- Fractional COO
- Fractional CMO
- Fractional CRO
- CEO Coach
- Growth Advisor
- HR Executive
- Technology Advisor
- Industry Specialist
- Banking & Credit Advisor
- Cybersecurity Advisor
- Business Insurance Advisor
- Exit Planning Advisor
- Sell-Side M&A Advisor
- M&A Attorney
- Tax Advisor
- Wealth Advisor
- Succession Planning Advisor
- Business Valuation Specialist
Expertise that fits the journey but not a listed category? Apply anyway; the bench grows where members need it.
Start immediately. Personally reviewed.
Anyone can apply, and every expert in the network is vetted. We review each profile ourselves, because the quality of the network is what makes a match worth something to both sides.
You're in the dashboard immediately. No wait, no gatekeeper.
Rate, availability, and engagement models: hourly, project-based, or retainer.
Every profile is vetted before it goes in front of members. Quality is the product.
We recommend you to members who need exactly what you know, at the phase where you fit.
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