search_businesses

Search for businesses for sale on Venturu. Supports natural-language location queries, financial filters, business type filtering, and pagination.

This is a read-only tool. No authentication required.

Parameters

Location

Parameter	Type	Description
`location`	`string`	Natural-language location query (e.g., “Palm Beach, FL”, “Miami”, “33101”). Geocoded to a bounding box automatically. Ignored if `bbox` is provided.
`state`	`string`	State or region filter.
`bbox`	`object`	Explicit bounding box with `sw` (lat/lng) and `ne` (lat/lng). Overrides `location`.

Business Type

Parameter	Type	Description
`businessTypeIds`	`number[]`	Filter by business type IDs. Get IDs from `list_business_categories`.
`statuses`	`string[]`	Filter by listing status (only publicly visible statuses are allowed).
`listedBy`	`string[]`	Filter by who listed: `"owner"` or `"broker"`.
`saleTypes`	`string[]`	Filter by sale type: `"ASSET_SALE"`, `"STOCK_SALE"`, or `"HYBRID"`.

Financial Filters

All financial filters use flat min/max parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description
`minPrice` / `maxPrice`	`number`	Asking price range
`minRevenue` / `maxRevenue`	`number`	Annual revenue range
`minProfit` / `maxProfit`	`number`	Annual profit range
`minSde` / `maxSde`	`number`	Seller’s discretionary earnings range
`minSdeMultiple` / `maxSdeMultiple`	`number`	SDE multiple range
`minRevenueMultiple` / `maxRevenueMultiple`	`number`	Revenue multiple range
`minDownPayment` / `maxDownPayment`	`number`	Down payment range

Business Characteristics

Parameter	Type	Description
`minEstablishmentAge` / `maxEstablishmentAge`	`number`	Business age in years
`minEmployeeCount` / `maxEmployeeCount`	`number`	Number of employees
`minOwnerWorkedHours` / `maxOwnerWorkedHours`	`number`	Owner’s weekly working hours
`propertyIncluded`	`boolean`	Whether real estate is included in the sale
`buyerFinancingAvailable`	`boolean`	Whether seller financing is available
`sbaPrequalified`	`boolean`	Whether the business is SBA pre-qualified
`visaQualified`	`boolean`	Whether the business qualifies for E-2 visa

Scoring

Parameter	Type	Description
`minOpportunityScore` / `maxOpportunityScore`	`number`	Venturu opportunity score range
`includeMissingMultiples`	`boolean`	Include listings that don’t have multiples data

Pagination & Sorting

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
`limit`	`integer`	`15`	Results per page (max 15)
`cursor`	`integer`	—	Cursor for pagination (from `nextCursor` in previous response)
`orderByProperty`	`string`	`"recommended"`	Sort by: `"recommended"`, `"relevance"`, `"price"`, or `"recent"`
`orderByDirection`	`string`	`"desc"`	Sort direction: `"asc"` or `"desc"`

Response

The tool returns:

Text content — A formatted summary of matching listings with key details
Structured content — Machine-readable JSON with full listing data:

{
  "listings": [
    {
      "id": 1234,
      "slug": "profitable-restaurant-miami",
      "title": "Profitable Restaurant in Miami",
      "askingPrice": 450000,
      "revenue": 1200000,
      "cashFlow": 250000,
      "location": "Miami, FL",
      "businessType": "Restaurant"
    }
  ],
  "total": 87,
  "nextCursor": 1235
}

Examples

Search by location

Prompt: “Find businesses for sale in Palm Beach, Florida”The tool geocodes “Palm Beach, Florida” into a bounding box and returns listings within that area.

Search with financial filters

Prompt: “Show me businesses under

200,000 with at least

500,000 in revenue”Parameters: maxPrice: 200000, minRevenue: 500000

Search by industry

Prompt: “Find hotels for sale in California”First call list_business_categories to get the hotel business type ID, then pass it in businessTypeIds.

Paginate through results

Prompt: “Show me the next page of results”Pass the nextCursor value from the previous response as cursor.

Overview

Tools Reference

search_businesses