DealSource Systems vs Kiya.

DealSource Systems wrote this page and DealSource Systems is one of the firms on it. That belongs in the first line, not in a footnote. Every Kiya claim below was read off kiya.co on 18 September 2026 and is quoted. Kiya publishes no pricing, no deal size range and no track record figures, so this page says so rather than filling the gaps with estimates.

Who each one is for

Kiya states it plainly: "Kiya sources off-market acquisitions for independent sponsors, PE platforms and strategic acquirers." It is "Run by an operator, who built, sold, and bought."

DealSource Systems serves private equity funds, M&A advisors, boutique investment banks and search funds that want origination running continuously across a full market rather than a hand-picked shortlist.

What Kiya actually does

The method is the product. "We know why each company fits your thesis before we reach out." "A founder leads each call." "We answer hard questions and leave room for 'not now.'" Each introduction "comes with the owner's goals and concerns", so "You know their timing before the first meeting."

On scale, they are explicit and unembarrassed: "Our team stays small so each owner gets that call." The founder is Yannick Lorenz, who writes that he built a digital services firm to seven figures, sold it, then "sourced and closed multiple off-market deals" as a buyer. The firm is in Newport Beach, California.

Not published anywhere on the site: pricing, minimum term, deal size range, number of clients, number of conversations delivered, or any track record figure. We checked and found none, so this page states none.

What we do

DealSource Systems runs origination as a standing function for private equity funds, M&A advisors, boutique investment banks and search funds. AI maps the market against your thesis, scores readiness signals on each company and drafts the approach. Then operators with deal experience review every message before an owner sees it and handle the replies, including the ones that need a real answer about structure or timing.

Pricing is on the site rather than behind a call: from $4,000 a month for a single thesis, $8,000 and above for a dedicated multi-thesis mandate, no success fee, 90-day minimum term. The engagement we publish in full is Merritt Healthcare Advisors, a healthcare investment bank: 14 qualified founder conversations in the first three weeks, 133 inside 90 days. We are part of Danish Lead Co.

Where Kiya is stronger than us

Depth per company. Studying a company properly before anyone contacts it, then having the founder make the call, produces a better first conversation than a system optimised for coverage. If your thesis is twenty companies rather than two thousand, Kiya's approach is the right shape and ours is over-engineered.

An operator on the phone. Their founder has bought and sold companies. When an owner asks a hard question in the first ninety seconds, that answer lands differently coming from a principal than from anyone else.

Smallness as a promise. "Our team stays small" is a commitment to a service ceiling. Ours is a commitment to run the market, which is a different and sometimes worse thing.

Where we are stronger

Coverage. We map the full market against your thesis rather than working a curated list, and we can run several theses at once. On our published engagement that produced 133 qualified founder conversations inside 90 days.

Published price and terms. From $4,000 a month, $8,000 and above for a dedicated multi-thesis mandate, no success fee, 90-day minimum. Kiya publishes nothing, so the only way to find out is to book the call.

Capacity that does not depend on one diary. A model where the founder personally leads every call has a hard ceiling. If you need volume, that ceiling is the constraint.

Published proof. We publish one engagement in full, with dated numbers anyone can check. We looked across kiya.co for a client count, a conversation volume or a closed deal figure and found none, which makes the service harder to assess before you sign.

The honest counterweight: we are the newest firm in this category and we publish one documented engagement. Anyone asking for a decade of closed transactions across hundreds of mandates is asking for something we do not have yet.

When to choose Kiya over us

Choose Kiya if your target universe is small and specific, if the quality of the first human conversation matters more than the number of them, if you want the person who calls the owner to be a principal who has sat in the owner's chair, or if you are an independent sponsor whose reputation with a handful of owners in one niche is the whole asset.

When to choose us over Kiya

Choose us if you need coverage of a market rather than a shortlist, if you are running more than one thesis, if you want a stated price and minimum term before you engage, or if you need the pipeline to keep producing conversations at a rate that does not depend on one person's calendar.

How we checked this

Read on 18 September 2026: kiya.co, which carries the positioning, the method, the "Our team stays small" line, the founder's note and the field notes index. We looked for a pricing page, a deal size range and any track record figure, and found none, which is why this page says none published rather than guessing. Our own numbers come from our published engagement.

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