Find distressed businesses before your competitors do.
InsolvIQ monitors bankruptcy filings, UCC liens, Google closures, and 4 other public signals to surface businesses that need auction services — enriched with owner contact data and scored by urgency. Delivered daily.
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Signal sources
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Urgency tiers
48h
Tier 1 window
Midwest Precision Machining Inc.
Industrial Machinery · Youngstown, OH
Est. Assets
$2.1M
Est. Commission
$210K
Owner Contact
Dave Kowalski
(330) 555-0182
Filed Chapter 7 Feb 14. UCC-1 covers CNC machining centers + press brakes. Google confirmed permanently closed. Owner motivated to liquidate before trustee involvement.
Example Tier 1 lead card — real output from the platform
The problem
Auction salespeople have no systematic way to find leads.
Every distressed business that files for bankruptcy, defaults on equipment loans, or quietly shuts its doors is a potential consignment. But by the time most reps find out, a competitor has already called — or the trustee has locked down the assets.
The signals are all public. They're just scattered across federal courts, county records, state databases, and business directories. No one has assembled them for auction salespeople — until now.
Today's lead sources
Cold calling
Reps dial hundreds of numbers each week with no signal of who actually needs help.
Word of mouth
Leads arrive only after someone already knows — often after a competitor has called.
Referrals
Referral networks are thin and geography-dependent. You can't scale them.
Courthouse runs
Some reps manually check federal court records or county filings — slow, inconsistent, and exhausting.
The solution
An automated early warning system built for auction salespeople.
InsolvIQ assembles a pipeline that goes from raw public signals to a scored, enriched, ready-to-act lead — all without a data team. Think PropStream for real estate foreclosures, but for commercial asset auctions.
Ingest
7 public data sources monitored daily — federal court filings, public lien registries, business directories, workforce data, and more.
Score
Signals are weighted and stacked into a 1–10 urgency score. Ch. 7 alone scores +4.
Filter
Leads are matched to your industry and territory before they reach your feed.
Enrich
Owner name, phone, email, and financial health score — pulled automatically.
Deliver
A plain-English lead brief hits your dashboard with comparable auction results and commission estimate.
Key capabilities
Everything a rep needs to call with confidence.
Multi-source signal stacking
Seven public data sources — federal court filings, public lien registries, business directories, workforce data, county business licenses, financial health data, and news monitoring — tracked continuously. The more signals, the higher the score.
Enriched owner contact data
Every lead arrives with the owner's name, phone number, email, and financial health score — pulled automatically. No manual lookup required.
Plain-English lead brief + comps
A 2–3 sentence summary explaining why this business needs auction services now, plus comparable auction results from the same SIC code and region, and an estimated commission.
Signal stack
Seven public signals. One urgency score.
Each distress signal is weighted by how strongly it predicts an imminent liquidation event. Signals are stacked — the more that fire together, the higher the score and the faster you should act.
Tier 1 example
Ch. 7 (+4) + UCC Lien (+2) + Google Closed (+2) = 8 pts → Contact within 48 hours
Federal liquidation filing — highest urgency signal.
Federal restructuring filing. Owner still in control — strong outreach window.
Equipment lien filed against business assets — recorded in public state registries.
"Permanently Closed" status detected via public business directories.
Business license not renewed at county or state level.
Headcount dropped >30% over the last 6–12 months.
Closure or liquidation keywords found in local news or press releases.
Tier system
Three urgency tiers. Know exactly who to call first.
Every lead is scored on a 1–10 scale and automatically assigned to a tier. No manual sorting. No guessing. Your hottest leads are always at the top.
8–10 pts
Action
Contact within 48 hours
Typical trigger
Ch. 7 + UCC lien + Google closed
5–7 pts
Action
Contact within 1 week
Typical trigger
Ch. 11 + UCC lien, or 3 stacked signals
3–4 pts
Action
Monitor for escalation
Typical trigger
1–2 signals, no bankruptcy yet
Early access
Ready to stop cold calling and start finding the right businesses at the right moment?
We're onboarding our first 10 auction company partners. If your team covers a territory and wants a systematic lead advantage, let's talk.
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