sponsored by DealGen Partners: 

A quick intro, for anyone new here.

I'm Joe Zanca, and I run DealGen Partners. We outsource business development for private equity firms, family offices, and qualified buyers. We work as a partner, not as a vendor. In plain terms, we become your deal origination engine.

The work speaks for itself. On average, our clients are under LOI within the first 90 to 120 days. And we stand behind it: we'll bring you 10 qualified deals within the first four months, or we work for free until we hit that number.

So if you're looking for a new platform company to buy, or one of your existing platforms is looking to grow through acquisition, let's talk. We'll get into the industry, do a little market mapping, and start putting together a qualified list of targets.

Reach out to me directly at [email protected]

Every morning, everyone at DealGen opens a report.

It tells them what to focus on today. What needs to get done. What’s waiting on them.

At the end of the day, a second report shows up. What actually got accomplished.

AI builds both. It’s the newest job we’ve handed it, and far from the only one. We use AI to communicate with clients. We use it to win new ones. We use it to organize data that used to eat hours of somebody’s week.

It’s made us faster and more organized than a team our size has any right to be.

But here’s what the morning report can’t do.

It can’t pick up the phone. It can’t hear the hesitation in an owner’s voice and know when to push and when to back off. It can’t sit across from a founder who built something from nothing and earn the right to talk about what comes next.

It can’t set the vision. It can’t keep a team aligned on it. And it can’t execute.

The report tells you who to call. Somebody still has to dial.

AI made our process better. It didn’t make our people optional. Deals still get done through strong communication, alignment, vision, and execution, and nothing I’ve seen is anywhere close to replacing that.