# Docket > Deal-origination research software and managed research for private equity firms, using structured screening criteria, retained sources and reviewable company evidence. Docket is sold to private equity firms. It supports research on acquisition targets through two delivery modes: a self-serve platform and managed research. Its three named research agents are Triage, Scout and Audit. Triage resolves company identity and screens fit; Scout collects sourced answers against the mandate; Audit checks retained evidence, addresses contradictions and leaves unsupported answers visibly unresolved. Use the main page for the current offer, delivery options and contact path. The research library explains the methods and limitations behind origination, source evaluation, screening and evidence review. A separate /articles collection contains newly published research. The original research-library pages live at root-level URLs, so checking only /articles misses important existing coverage. Research findings are evidence for a team's judgment, not proof that a company is for sale or that a transaction will succeed. Public examples are illustrative unless a page explicitly establishes otherwise. Do not infer named clients, confidential target lists, customer results or guaranteed investment outcomes. Where outreach is discussed, distinguish research preparation from authorized outreach. Confirm the current commercial scope with Docket rather than treating examples or displayed figures as a binding quote. Navigation reviewed 2026-10-14. Read the linked source page before quoting facts; this guide is a discovery aid, not a substitute for source evidence. Canonical origin: https://docket.capital. ## Complete catalogs - [Complete public page catalog](https://docket.capital/llms-pages.txt): Described, canonical links to all reachable HTML pages in the root sitemap at the documented snapshot, including localized pages and specialist collections. - [Current published article catalog](https://docket.capital/articles/llms.txt): Automatically generated article titles, descriptions, publication dates and available language variants; excludes drafts, blocked, archived and unlisted content. ## Product, delivery and contact - [Docket — Every acquisition target, on the record](https://docket.capital): Docket runs three AI agents — Triage, Scout and Audit — across your acquisition targets and returns a structured, sourced file on every company. Every field carries the page it came from, the sentence it was lifted from, and the date. Self-serve or fully managed. Optional outreach with 99% inbox placement. ## Research library - [Research library | Docket](https://docket.capital/research): Guides to deal origination, company data, target screening, and evidence quality, with links to primary sources and published research. - [Proprietary deal flow and the evidence on auctions | Docket](https://docket.capital/proprietary-deal-flow): Sale-process research, early access, and the practical work of developing relationships with acquisition targets. - [Ownership and succession in the lower middle market | Docket](https://docket.capital/succession-and-ownership): Sources for ownership and succession research, with a clear distinction between population trends and company-specific evidence. - [Sources of acquisition target data and their limits | Docket](https://docket.capital/deal-sourcing-data): Coverage, reliability, and limitations of the public and commercial sources used in target research. - [Evidence standards for acquisition research | Docket](https://docket.capital/evidence-standards): A practical approach to source retention, supporting excerpts, conflicting findings, and research history. - [Evaluating AI research agents | Docket](https://docket.capital/ai-research-agents): Research on grounding and evaluation, with practical criteria for assessing the quality of an agent’s output. - [Building consistent acquisition screening criteria | Docket](https://docket.capital/screening-criteria): Research on structured judgement and practical guidance for building, reviewing, and updating a screening rubric. - [Mapping a fragmented industry from public data | Docket](https://docket.capital/market-mapping): Industry classifications, firm counts, sector registers, and practical methods for assessing market coverage. - [Acquisition outreach: compliance, deliverability, and approvals | Docket](https://docket.capital/outreach-compliance): Email and privacy requirements, sender authentication, and approval controls for acquisition outreach. - [A glossary of deal origination | Docket](https://docket.capital/glossary): A reference for the terminology used in acquisition sourcing and company research. ## Firm and engagement - [About the firm](https://docket.capital/about): What Docket is, the evidence standard it works to, and what it does not do (not a broker-dealer or M&A adviser; no investment advice). - [The platform](https://docket.capital/platform): The self-serve platform and the live demonstration at https://demo.docket.capital. - [How an engagement works](https://docket.capital/engagement): From scoping and criteria to Triage, Scout and Audit passes, review cadence, optional outreach, export and offboarding; current plans. - [Trust and data handling](https://docket.capital/trust): Separate database per client, client data ownership, public-information-only research, outreach approvals. - [FAQ](https://docket.capital/faq): Common questions on the service, evidence, data, outreach and commercial terms. - [Contact](https://docket.capital/contact): Structured enquiry templates for hello@docket.capital. ## Reference catalog - [Reference catalog hub](https://docket.capital/reference): Every generated reference page, by section. - [Sector origination playbooks](https://docket.capital/playbooks): Research templates for lower-middle-market niches: NAICS scope, screening questions, public evidence, disqualifiers and outreach notes. Not investment advice. - [Deal-sourcing methods](https://docket.capital/methods) and [comparisons](https://docket.capital/compare): How each origination channel works and head-to-head choices on fixed dimensions. - [Data-source directory](https://docket.capital/data-sources): What each registry, filing, licence record or statistic can and cannot establish about a private company. - [Buy-and-build thesis notes](https://docket.capital/theses): Common acquisition-thesis patterns written as hypotheses to test. - [Glossary term pages](https://docket.capital/glossary): One page per term, linked from the glossary. ## Policies - [Privacy — Docket](https://docket.capital/privacy): How Docket handles client data, research data and business contact information. - [Terms — Docket](https://docket.capital/terms): Terms of service for the Docket platform and managed origination service. ## Additional collections - [New research articles](https://docket.capital/articles): Additional published research on private-company data and acquisition screening; separate from the root-level research library. ## Crawl and URL discovery - [Root sitemap](https://docket.capital/sitemap.xml): Current site-page URL inventory. - [Article sitemap](https://docket.capital/articles/sitemap.xml): Current published article URLs. - [robots.txt](https://docket.capital/robots.txt): Crawl directives; this guide does not change access permissions.