> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.mob.so/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# For business buyers

> Research acquisition opportunities as a search funder, an independent buyer, or an operator expanding a business.

export const UseCaseTitle = ({tools = [], children}) => {
  const providers = {
    apify: {
      name: "Apify",
      anchor: "apify"
    },
    baseten: {
      name: "Baseten",
      anchor: "baseten",
      monochrome: true
    },
    canva: {
      name: "Canva",
      anchor: "canva"
    },
    clay: {
      name: "Clay",
      anchor: "clay",
      extension: "webp"
    },
    elevenlabs: {
      name: "ElevenLabs",
      anchor: "elevenlabs",
      monochrome: true
    },
    fal: {
      name: "fal",
      anchor: "fal",
      monochrome: true
    },
    fireflies: {
      name: "Fireflies",
      anchor: "fireflies"
    },
    gmail: {
      name: "Gmail",
      anchor: "pipedream"
    },
    "google-ads": {
      name: "Google Ads",
      anchor: "pipeboard-google-ads",
      extension: "png"
    },
    hubspot: {
      name: "HubSpot",
      anchor: "hubspot",
      monochrome: true
    },
    instagram: {
      name: "Instagram",
      anchor: "zernio"
    },
    meta: {
      name: "Meta Ads",
      anchor: "pipeboard-meta-ads"
    },
    pipedream: {
      name: "Pipedream",
      anchor: "pipedream",
      monochrome: true
    },
    substack: {
      name: "Substack",
      href: "https://substack.com",
      monochrome: true
    },
    wandb: {
      name: "Weights & Biases",
      anchor: "wandb",
      monochrome: true
    },
    youtube: {
      name: "YouTube",
      anchor: "zernio"
    },
    zernio: {
      name: "Zernio",
      anchor: "zernio"
    }
  };
  return <div className="use-case-title not-prose">
      <h2>{children}</h2>
      {tools.length > 0 && <div className="use-case-tools">
          {tools.map(id => {
    const provider = providers[id];
    return <a key={id} href={provider.href || `/integrations#${provider.anchor}`}>
                <img src={`/images/providers/${id}.${provider.extension || "svg"}`} alt="" width="24" height="24" noZoom className={provider.monochrome ? "provider-monochrome" : undefined} />
                <span>{provider.name}</span>
              </a>;
  })}
        </div>}
    </div>;
};

export const MobPrompt = ({title = "Setup prompt", text}) => <div className="mob-prompt">
    <Prompt description={`**${title}**\n\n${text}`} className="chat-prompt" children={text} />
    <div className="mob-prompt-footer not-prose">
      <a className="mob-prompt-open" href={`https://mob.so/?${new URLSearchParams({
  prompt: text
})}`} target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
        <svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" strokeWidth="1.5" aria-hidden="true">
          <path strokeLinecap="round" strokeLinejoin="round" d="M7.5 4.5h12m0 0v12m0-12-15 15" />
        </svg>
        Open in mob
      </a>
    </div>
  </div>;

<div className="use-case-guide">
  <section className="use-case-row" id="find-acquisition-candidates">
    <div className="use-case-overview">
      <UseCaseTitle>Find businesses that fit your search</UseCaseTitle>
      <p className="use-case-description">Maintain a researched list of acquisition candidates as you learn about companies and your criteria develop.</p>
    </div>

    <MobPrompt
      text={`Help me find acquisition candidates on mob.so.

- Ask about my target sectors, geography, business size, operating preferences, and acquisition criteria.
- Create a private mob with agents to research company websites, industry directories, and accessible business sale listings.
- Compare new candidates with our saved search, recording evidence of fit, unknowns, and stated sale availability.
- Keep a sourced shortlist that separates confirmed facts from estimates and questions for further diligence.
- Help me configure access, research frequency, budget, and deployment.`}
    />
  </section>

  <section className="use-case-row" id="refine-acquisition-thesis">
    <div className="use-case-overview">
      <UseCaseTitle>Test your acquisition thesis over time</UseCaseTitle>
      <p className="use-case-description">Follow demand, regulation, and operating conditions in the industries you are considering.</p>
    </div>

    <MobPrompt
      text={`Help me research an acquisition thesis on mob.so.

- Ask about the industries, business models, and assumptions behind my search.
- Create a private mob with agents to follow trade publications, public data, regulation, and company reporting.
- Have each run compare new evidence with our saved thesis and investigate assumptions that remain uncertain.
- Keep dated findings on demand, margins, operating requirements, and risks, with reasons to revisit the search criteria.
- Walk me through source access, schedule, budget, and deployment.`}
    />
  </section>

  <section className="use-case-row" id="maintain-company-diligence">
    <div className="use-case-overview">
      <UseCaseTitle>Keep diligence on a target current</UseCaseTitle>
      <p className="use-case-description">Compare new company materials and external evidence with the questions behind a potential acquisition.</p>
    </div>

    <MobPrompt
      text={`Help me maintain diligence on an acquisition target using mob.so.

- Ask about the company, deal questions, and materials I am authorized to share.
- Create a private mob with agents to compare new financial statements, seller responses, and accessible external records with our saved findings.
- Track reporting periods, financial definitions, conflicting claims, and questions that remain open.
- Keep a sourced diligence brief for review with my accounting, legal, and operating advisers.
- Help me configure access, review frequency, budget, and deployment.`}
    />
  </section>

  <section className="use-case-row" id="research-customers-and-competitors">
    <div className="use-case-overview">
      <UseCaseTitle>Follow a target's customers and competitors</UseCaseTitle>
      <p className="use-case-description">Investigate the market around a business as customer demand and competing offers change.</p>
    </div>

    <MobPrompt
      text={`Help me research the market around an acquisition target on mob.so.

- Ask about its products, customer segments, competitors, and commercial questions.
- Create a private mob with agents to follow company announcements, accessible reviews, industry reporting, and customer research I share.
- Compare new evidence with our saved assessment of demand and competition, noting source coverage and unresolved claims.
- Keep a sourced market brief with questions for customer conversations and seller diligence.
- Walk me through access, research frequency, budget, and deployment.`}
    />
  </section>

  <section className="use-case-row" id="track-acquisition-comparables">
    <div className="use-case-overview">
      <UseCaseTitle>Track comparable acquisitions</UseCaseTitle>
      <p className="use-case-description">Follow disclosed transactions to understand how similar businesses are being bought and financed.</p>
    </div>

    <MobPrompt
      text={`Help me track comparable acquisitions on mob.so.

- Ask about sectors, business size, geography, and deal structures relevant to my search.
- Create a private mob with agents to research transaction announcements, filings, and accessible deal reports.
- Compare new deals with our saved records, distinguishing announced and completed transactions.
- Record disclosed terms, financial definitions, missing figures, and limits to comparison.
- Keep a sourced transaction history with questions for valuation and financing discussions.
- Help me configure data access, research frequency, budget, and deployment.`}
    />
  </section>

  <section className="use-case-row" id="research-acquisition-financing">
    <div className="use-case-overview">
      <UseCaseTitle>Follow acquisition financing options</UseCaseTitle>
      <p className="use-case-description">Keep a comparison of funding sources current as your target and financing requirements become clearer.</p>
    </div>

    <MobPrompt
      text={`Help me research acquisition financing on mob.so.

- Ask about my jurisdiction, target business, expected funding needs, and financing constraints.
- Create a private mob with agents to review lender publications, public financing programs, and proposals I am authorized to share.
- Compare changes with our saved options, recording stated eligibility, rates, fees, security requirements, and dates.
- Keep a sourced comparison with terms and assumptions to confirm with lenders and advisers for the proposed transaction.
- Walk me through access, review frequency, budget, and deployment.`}
    />
  </section>
</div>