ExitRadar: UK businesses to buy
Most good small businesses are never advertised.
They change hands when the owner retires, and the buyer who hears first is the one who asked. ExitRadar finds those businesses before they reach a broker. We read the Companies House record of every active UK limited company and rate which ones look worth buying and which owners show signs of being ready to sell: directors nearing retirement, long tenure, a single owner running the business, changes in ownership. Every company we rate worth approaching has been checked and cleared: not a subsidiary, a holding shell, a property vehicle, recently sold or dormant. Ask in plain English. "I want to buy an engineering business in the West Midlands." "Which care businesses in the North West have owners close to retirement?" "How old are the owners of UK construction firms?" You get anonymised target cards (sector, region, EBITDA band, the age band of the oldest director and an Exit Score band) and published sector figures: how old the owners are, how many run the business alone, and how many targets each region holds. No account, no sign-in, nothing personal from you. Cards never name a company: names are on ExitRadar, where a free trial includes free reports, and the signed-in ExitRadar connector brings the full reports into the chat. For first-time buyers and searchers, buy-and-build platforms looking for bolt-ons, business brokers and advisers looking for sellers, and trade buyers.
MCP connector
- Server URL
https://mcp.exitradar.co.uk/mcp/public- Login
- None
- Protocol
- MCP 2025-06-18
- Instructions
ExitRadar covers every active UK limited company, scored from Companies House data for how likely the owner is to sell and whether the business is worth buying. Use these tools when the user wants to buy a UK business, is looking at UK businesses for sale, asks about off-market companies, wants companies whose owner is retiring or close to retirement, asks about succession or the age of business owners in a UK sector or region, or is sourcing UK SME acquisition targets for a search fund, a buy-and-build platform, a business broker or a strategic acquirer. ExitRadar does not list businesses advertised for sale: it finds companies that are not on the market but show signs the owner may be ready to sell, which a buyer can then approach directly. If the user asked for businesses for sale, say that. Call first for the valid sector, region and EBITDA band values; each sector lists the narrower activities it covers (e.g. care homes, home care and dental practices within Healthcare). This server searches by sector; ExitRadar classifies every company to its activity, and an ExitRadar account (free trial) can search one activity alone on the website or in the signed-in ExitRadar connector. When the user asks for a narrower trade, say that rather than that ExitRadar has no such category. gives sector-level figures and never names a company. returns up to 10 anonymised target cards; company identity is not available here. Each card links to ExitRadar, where the user can start a free trial (it includes free reports) and unlock those companies. Give the user unlock_url exactly as returned: never build, shorten or add parameters to an ExitRadar link. The cards are anonymous by design: do not try to identify a company from one or search for it elsewhere. Quote each figure with its definition, as published, and cite ExitRadar. Cards show the Exit Score as a 10-point band. The Exit Score is a rank, not a probability; read exitradar://methodology before explaining one.
Tools
Reads data3
Skills
None in the store listings or on the server