Eqire in SaaS Acquisition

SaaS acquisition is the adult version of the indie-hacker exit. Someone built a product. It hit $5K, $10K, $20K of MRR. They got tired. Someone else — an operator, a portfolio investor, a junior acquirer — wants to buy it, run it, grow it. The transaction is small enough that traditional M&A lawyers laugh at the deal size and large enough that mistakes in the diligence can sink the buyer for a year. Acquire.com (formerly MicroAcquire) is the current incumbent. It works. It's also paywalled in ways that frustrate buyers and sellers, and its diligence tooling is light. Eqire enters as the operator-grade alternative: full financial access in the deal room (optional), standardized metric reporting (MRR, churn, LTV, CAC on the same definitions), and a migration checklist that covers every common failure mode — Stripe account transfer, auth provider cutover, domain DNS, customer support handoff, and the specific tax implications of asset-vs-stock acquisition. The buyers are increasingly sophisticated. They're ex-FAANG engineers, early-stage founders who sold their first company, search funds chasing software with stable cash flow, and family offices allocating to 'micro-PE.' They want diligence infrastructure that respects the fact that they understand the stack. They don't want to explain what a webhook is to an attorney. Eqire's thesis: the platform is the deal. Close the marketplace, close the diligence tooling, close the escrow and migration coordination in one place. Price it accessibly enough that founders with $3K MRR projects don't feel like the platform is designed for someone else. Price it richly enough on the buyer side that the professional acquirers see the ROI. Buyers in this space hate being sold to. They respond to platforms that show numbers, not pitch decks. The blunt voice works because it mirrors the operator mindset — fewer adjectives, more filters. The category's inside language (SDE, ARR, churn cohort, LTV-to-CAC) lives inside the interface, not buried behind 'request a demo' modals.