Forty years of closed deals.
Now the next owner hears about them first.

Prepared for
Don · Versailles Group, Ltd.
Selling
Sell-side M&A, divestitures, private placements and fairness opinions for lower-middle-market and middle-market owners
Prepared
September 2026 · Charm

A hundred thousand emails a month to the owners who have been in the chair long enough to think about the exit, on domains you never build again, with LinkedIn following from your seat.

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01 / Current stateThe work was never the problem. Finding the next owner was.

The business
  • Forty years in January, founder from day one. Sell-side M&A, divestitures, private placements and fairness opinions for owners, family companies and corporate clients, at home and across borders.
  • A low-volume shop by design: quality over quantity, senior execution on every mandate. A division sold for Texas Instruments, two divestitures for the company that became Verizon, a New Jersey company sold to a Japanese buyer.
  • Every client is a one-time client. The deal closes, the owner goes to the beach, and the relationship ends because it worked.
The channels
  • Referrals are the main source and they are mature. They also thin out: one happy seller's friends had all retired before he did, so his network was gone.
  • Email in bursts. Domains bought, Clay set up, Apollo data, ten to fifteen thousand sends in total and a client here and there. Then static sends from Constant Contact, and a few prospects thanking you for not sending one of those AI messages.
  • A LinkedIn contractor visited profiles and sent the thirty-ninth-anniversary message. Zoom calls got booked. There was no business in them.
What is on the desk now
  • A live sell-side mandate that came the way most of them do: someone who knew you introduced the founder.
  • Outbound stops whenever a client has heavy demands, which is exactly when the next mandate should be getting sourced.
  • Someone on the team fields the replies that come in. Nothing is built to keep feeding them.

02 / Root of problemsThe best outcome for the client is the end of the relationship.

The model eats its own pipeline
  • A seller exits once. Repeat business exists, the 2013 seller who came back years later, but it is rare and it cannot be scheduled.
  • Referrals depend on networks that retire with the seller, so the source shrinks in step with the client base it comes from.
  • Owners who are ready to sell are a small slice of any list on any given month. Reaching them means writing to the whole universe, constantly, not in bursts.
The volume never reached a verdict
  • Ten to fifteen thousand sends in total is less than one message needs to be judged. Financial offers run at seven hundred fifty to twelve hundred sends per positive reply, so a good theory looked like a bad one.
  • Apollo is the most canvassed dataset in the world. Every owner in it hears from everyone who bought it, and the owner on his own 2004 website is not in it at all.
  • Nobody owned the infrastructure, so it lapsed the moment a mandate got busy.
The message was about you
  • "Versailles Group just celebrated its thirty-ninth anniversary, let's do a Zoom" is one me and no you. The people who accepted wanted to say hello, not to sell.
  • Signals were read out ("you have been in business forty years") instead of tied to the situation the signal implies: after forty years, an exit is on the mind, and here is what one looked like.
  • Static sends kept you human and got you thanked. They did not answer why me and why now, so they did not book mandates either.

03 / What you'll haveBy month three, the introductions are coming from the inbox.

Pipeline
  • Replies from named owners of niche businesses, twenty and thirty years in, landing in your inbox the same day with the thread attached, ready for your team to qualify and book with you.
  • About thirty thousand new owners written to every month, three touches each, on domains you never build, warm or replace.
  • Where the owner cannot be reached, the person beside them is: the CFO, the second generation, the partner, and the corporate development lead at the large companies with a division to shed.
The engine
  • Four new campaigns every two weeks, each a theory about who sells and why: an industry, a tenure, a situation, written in that owner's language with enough sends behind it to judge.
  • Straight-volume campaigns to the widest owner universe raced against the signal plays, so nothing waits for a trigger.
  • Two channels acting like one person. The email goes out, and the connection from your seat follows within the hour: "I'm the one who just wrote to you."
What you see
  • Every reply, the same day, with the owner's details.
  • Your own lead database: every owner we find, resolve and write to, exportable and yours.
  • At ninety days, a ranked answer to which industries, tenures and situations reply, and the three or four theories worth scaling.

We run all of it: the lists, the copy, the sending infrastructure and both LinkedIn seats. Your team takes the replies and you take the mandates.

04 / How it runsFrom a business owner to a signed mandate.

Charm × Versailles Group Sendinginfrastructure Listbuilding Ownerresolution Signalagents LinkedInseats Copy Four campaignsevery two weeks ↺ every cycle built from the last Email and LinkedInas one person Every reply in your inbox,same day ✓

05 / CampaignsWhere we start, and how we find them.

Owners twenty years in, by industry
  • Who. Founder-owners of niche manufacturers, distributors and specialist service firms in the industries Versailles has closed in, twenty or more years into the business.
  • How we find them. Charm's crawl of US company websites, filtered by industry and a founding date twenty or more years back, matched to the owner on LinkedIn and resolved to a verified email. One campaign per industry, in its language.
  • The ask. A confidential read on what a company like theirs is fetching right now.
The people who already raised a hand
  • Who. Everyone who downloaded an eBook, used Ask an Expert, enquired and went quiet, or sat on the Constant Contact list without replying.
  • How we find them. Your exports, cleaned, anyone with a live mandate excluded, then five lookalikes for every record from the lookalike model.
  • The ask. Is the exit still on the table.
Companies that look like the ones you have already sold
  • Who. Owners of businesses that look like the tombstones on your transactions page: the metal-detection maker, the medical transcription firm, the telecom manufacturer.
  • How we find them. Each closed deal seeds a lookalike pull by industry, size and country, resolved to the owner. The email names the kind of company you sold and the kind of buyer who bought it.
  • The ask. Would they want to know what buyers paid for a company like theirs.
Family-owned, next generation undecided
  • Who. Family companies where the founder is past sixty and no successor is named.
  • How we find them. An agent reads each About page for "family-owned", "second generation" and "founded by my father" language, with a human spot-check, and LinkedIn puts an age on the owner.
  • The ask. Is the next generation taking it over, or is a sale on the table.
Corporate divisions being shed
  • Who. The corporate development lead or division head at large companies with a non-core unit, the Texas Instruments and NYNEX shape of deal.
  • How we find them. A press and filings pull for "strategic review", "non-core" and "divest" in the last ninety days, matched to corporate development and division leadership on LinkedIn. The two hundred best also get the connection from your seat.
  • The ask. Whether the unit has a banker yet.

Four campaigns go out every two weeks, starting with owners by industry, the raised hands and the lookalikes of your closed deals. Some ship as written and some change at the parameter session, and every cycle after is built from what the last one showed.

06 / In personThe conference calendar, worked like a campaign.

Before
  • Every event has four data wells: attendees, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors. We pull all four for the trade shows in the industries you have closed in and the deal conferences where the buyers are, then resolve each name to the owner or the corporate development lead.
  • Every name is ranked against your scorecard, so the list of people worth crossing a hall for is finite and in order before the flight.
  • Three weeks out, the ranked list gets the email and the connection from your seat, and a LinkedIn listener catches anyone posting that they are going.
During
  • The exhibitor hall mapped with your targets marked and the shortest path drawn through it, so a day on the floor is a route, not a wander.
  • The people you meet get the connection and the note from your seat the same day, while the conversation is still fresh.
  • The people on the list you did not reach get "sorry we missed each other" before the event is over.
After
  • Everyone met is written to within forty-eight hours, in the language of the conversation you had.
  • Everyone on the ranked list you did not meet gets the recap, with the same ask as the campaign that was running before the event.
  • The four wells stay in your lead database, so the next event in that industry starts from a list instead of a badge scan.

Owners still shake hands on the floor of their own industry's show. The engine gets you there with the list already ranked, and works the same people by email and LinkedIn on either side of the handshake.

07 / Tool stackThe stack costs more than the fee.

Data & enrichment
Clay
Enrichment waterfall, owner resolution
$800/mo
DiscoLike
Lookalikes from your closed deals and the warm list
$199/mo
LeadMagic
Email verification
$249/mo
Ocean.io
B2B lookalikes
$600/mo
Infrastructure & sequencing
Hypertide
Inbox infrastructure
$1,850/mo
Charm Sequencer
Private IP pool
$500/mo
HeyReach
LinkedIn, human-paced, two seats
$197/mo
PhantomBuster
Social automation
$49/mo
Signals & glue
Apify
Website, press and filings pulls
$100/mo
RB2B
Visitor deanonymisation on versaillesgroup.com
$149/mo
n8n
Workflow glue
$100/mo
Signal agents
Built per campaign by us
Included
Licensed by yourself
$4,793/mo

Plus the person who runs them. You bought the domains, set up Clay and ran the Apollo data yourself. You know what it took, and who was doing it instead of working the mandates.

VS
Included with Charm
$0

Every tool above sits on our licenses and is run by our team. At the Engine tier you pay $4,500 a month, lead data and infrastructure included, and the stack behind it lists at more than that on its own before anybody's time.

08 / Timeline and deliverablesOwners hear from Versailles in week one.

LinkedIn seats live
Warm list and closed-deal lookalikes built
Cold domains warming
Industry pulls, agents and copy built
Cold campaigns at full volume
New cycle every 2 weeks
Week 1
  • Parameter session: forty years of closed deals ranked by industry and situation
  • LinkedIn seats connected, corporate track live by DM
  • eBook, enquiry and Constant Contact lists exported and cleaned
  • Cold domains ordered
Week 2
  • Industry and tenure pulls
  • Lookalike lists built from your closed deals and the warm list
  • Family-owned and divestiture agents built
  • Owners resolved with verified emails
Week 3
  • All sequences written and scored
  • Copy approved by you, written to be read aloud
  • Soft launch on the new domains
Week 4
  • All tracks live at full volume
  • Replies in your inbox the same day
Month 2 +
  • Four new campaigns every two weeks
  • Next cycle written from the replies to the last
  • Strategy call weekly, then every other week
Included in every package
  • Full cold infrastructure on separate domains, never on versaillesgroup.com
  • Up to 100,000 emails a month as three-touch sequences, about thirty thousand owners
  • Two LinkedIn seats managed end to end
  • Industry, lookalike, family-owned and divestiture data pulled fresh per campaign
  • Every record we build exportable and yours
  • Your clients and live mandates suppressed before the first send
  • Straight-volume owner campaigns raced against the signal plays
  • Event intelligence before, during and after every conference you attend
  • Any campaign swapped into the rotation at the next two-week cycle
  • All copy written, scored and iterated cycle over cycle
  • Replies routed to your team the same day
  • Sending domains warmed and replaced as needed for the life of the engagement
  • Dedicated account manager

09 / ProofWe have solved every piece of this before.

Hello Hero

Youth mental health platform · Same shape: a universe no data vendor sells, resolved to the named human
Challenge

Decision-makers across thousands of US school districts, a universe that exists only in public records, with the actual humans buried behind institutional entities.

Solution

Mapped every administrator in every US public school district from public data, resolved each to a verified direct contact, and ran parallel campaigns off that dataset. The owner on his own 2004 website who is not in Apollo, and the corporate development lead behind a "strategic review" press release, are the same build.

$35M
Pipeline generated
300+
Institutional leads
15+
Specialists recruited
6 mo
Timeline

Rightworks

Cloud accounting and practice management · Same shape: a public signal as the trigger, email and LinkedIn together
Challenge

A saturated mid-market category, a sales team stretched thin, and a need for targeting that cut through noise rather than adding volume to it.

Solution

Intent-based outbound triggered on firms hiring specific roles and engaging with specific content, multi-touch across email and LinkedIn. The divestiture play and the family-owned play above are that exact mechanic: a public signal, the situation it implies, and the two channels acting as one person.

$4.2M
Pipeline generated
180+
Demo requests
28%
Reply rate
5 mo
Timeline

VirtualFork

Restaurant technology platform · Same shape: owner-operators, in a category that closes on relationship
Challenge

Owner-operators who ignore generic email, in a category that closes on a handshake, where the deal happens when the buyer is ready and not before. A different industry with your exact dynamic.

Solution

Signal data identified operators at the moment of expansion, with sends timed to when those buyers were actually reachable. An owner sells when he is ready, and the job is to be the name in his inbox that month. Twenty years in, a successor unnamed, a unit declared non-core: those are the moments, and the campaigns above are built around them.

$1.8M
Pipeline generated
200+
Operator leads
35%
Reply rate
3 mo
Timeline

Ben's Bites

AI education SaaS · Same question: which angle earns the mandate
Challenge

Real credibility in the space but no systematic outbound, and no clarity on which of many possible angles would produce pipeline. Your question wears different clothes: industry, tenure, family succession or corporate carve-out first?

Solution

Forty-plus campaign types tested weekly across email and LinkedIn, doubling down only on what converted. You do not have to pick the winning theory in advance. Enough sends behind each one, and the replies pick it.

$2.5M
Pipeline generated
156x
ROI in 120 days
40+
Campaign types tested
4 mo
Timeline

10 / AcceptAccept, sign and start, right here.

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Engine

$4,500/mo

Four campaigns every two weeks, eight a month. A hundred thousand emails to about thirty thousand owners, lead data and infrastructure included, with the warm list and the lookalikes of your closed deals written to in the first cycle.

  • 4 campaign deployments every two weeks, 8 per month
  • Up to 100,000 emails a month as three-touch sequences, about 30,000 owners
  • Full cold infrastructure: domains, DKIM, SPF, MX, warming, private IP pool, never on versaillesgroup.com
  • All lead data included: industry and tenure pulls, lookalikes, family-owned and divestiture records, resolved to the owner with a verified email
  • 2 LinkedIn seats managed end to end: your seat plus a second Versailles seat, paired with the email
  • Every record we build exportable and yours
  • Straight-volume owner campaigns raced in parallel with the signal plays
  • Event intelligence before, during and after every conference you attend: the four data wells pulled, ranked and worked by email and LinkedIn
  • Any campaign swapped into the rotation at the next two-week cycle
  • Parameter session, forty years of closed deals ranked and the universe sized live
  • All copy written, scored and iterated cycle over cycle
  • Weekly strategy call in month one, then every other week · dedicated account manager

Engine ×2

$8,000/mo

Eight campaigns every two weeks, sixteen a month. Two hundred thousand emails to about sixty thousand owners, with every industry and situation live from month one.

  • Everything in Engine
  • 8 campaign deployments every two weeks, 16 per month
  • Up to 200,000 emails a month, about 60,000 owners
  • Every play live from month one: owners by industry, the warm list, closed-deal lookalikes, family-owned, corporate divestitures
  • Industry and country permutations tested from month one instead of after the first cycles prove out
  • Additional LinkedIn seat
  • Visitor deanonymisation on versaillesgroup.com, so we see which owners come looking after the email
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⬡ Our guarantee

If we miss ROI, month four is on us.

If the engagement has not returned its cost by the end of month three, we run month four entirely at our cost, full effort, nothing held back, and we will connect you with people we have run that month for so you can hear how it went. And at month three you choose either way: keep going, or take the campaign matrix, the copy and every list we built and run them yourself. They are yours regardless.

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11 / Next stepsWhen Versailles Group signs.

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Fill the onboarding form

Access, brand assets, the eBook and enquiry exports and the Constant Contact list. The link comes with your signed copy.

03

Book the parameter session

The working session that ranks forty years of closed deals by industry and situation and sizes the universe live. Pick the date here.

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Owners hear from Versailles in week one

LinkedIn live on the corporate track while the cold domains warm, full volume from week four.

Forty years of closed deals.
Thirty thousand owners a month hear about them.

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