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Business Buyers Institute

We train people to become business buyer's agents, and we help them launch their own agency.

A business buyer's agent represents the person buying a business, the same way a buyer's agent represents a purchaser in property. We teach you the work, we certify you, and we launch your agency with you. Sixteen weeks, start to finish.

Become a business buyer's agent. Own a business buyer's agency.

01

We train you

How to find a business, verify the numbers, negotiate the deal and take it to settlement. Learned on a real acquisition, not in theory.

02

We certify you

Examined at week six. A Certified Business Buyer's Agent, certified in the Institute's own methodology.

03

We launch your agency

Your business built with you and ready to launch at week twelve, then a month of implementation with us beside you.

A generation of owners is heading for the exit

In every developed market, roughly half of business owners are already at or past fifty five, and the children are not taking over any more. Every one of those businesses has to be sold, handed on or closed. Every sale has a buyer, and almost none of them has an agent.

1 in 2Owners in major markets already 55 or over
1 in 4In some markets, already past 65
$5tnChanging hands by 2035, in one major market alone

Sources: McKinsey & Company, 2026; national statistical agencies.

You did the career. The career kept the time.

Twenty years in, you can read a room, run a process, handle money conversations and be taken seriously by senior people. That is most of what this profession requires. It has simply been working for somebody else.

The question people actually ask us is not whether they can do it. It is whether they are too late. You are not. The wave is only starting, and in this work experience is the advantage, not the obstacle.

No experience in acquisitions needed. Everything you already know finally works for you, instead of for them.

The work: stand on the buyer's side

You find the business, verify the numbers, run the negotiation and take it to settlement. The accountant, the lawyer and the finance broker handle everything technical, and your client pays them. Your job is judgement and process.

01

Engage motivated buyers

People who already have the money and are actively looking.

02

Find them a business

On and off market, shortlisted to the ones genuinely worth their time.

03

Run the deal

Negotiate, brief the specialists, drive it through to settlement.

04

Get paid

A professional fee on every deal: $25,000 on a million dollar business, more on larger ones.

Fee figures describe what the work pays, not a projection of earnings. What you earn depends on you, your market and how hard you work.

Who is behind it

"I did the corporate thing at the highest level there is, and I still left. Not because the money was bad. The money was good. I left because I wanted my time back."

Sanjay Pandaram

The Acquisition Guy, Business Buyers Institute

Citibank Asia Pacific · Macquarie Bank · Lloyds International · Commonwealth Bank · CPA · $500m+ of businesses reviewed

More about Sanjay and the Institute

Certified, and ready to launch, in twelve weeks.

Part one

Get certified

Twelve weeks, guided personally. Trained on a real acquisition, examined at week six, ready to launch at week twelve.

Part two

Implementation

The launch itself: campaigns live, conversations started, us beside you. Behind you the whole way: the knowledge, the opportunity, the resources and the relationships.

KORR
Always

Own it outright

Your brand, your clients, your revenue. No royalties, no territory, no brand control. Think CPA, not McDonald's.

See the whole thing laid out, end to end

Forty five minutes: the market, the opportunity, the money, how it works, what it costs, and whether it suits you. Then you decide if a conversation is worth having.

Watch the six minute breakdown

Become a business buyer's agent. Own a business buyer's agency.

We train people to become business buyer's agents, and we help them launch their own agency.

Business Buyers Institute certifies people in its own methodology and supports them while they launch and operate their own independent business buyer's agencies. Agency owners own their businesses outright and trade under their own names. Business Buyers Institute is not a registered training organisation and nothing offered is nationally recognised or accredited training. Certification is in the Institute's own methodology. Nothing on this page is financial, legal, taxation or investment advice, and nothing here constitutes an offer of a franchise or of securities. Registration and regulatory requirements for business broking and advisory work vary by country, state and territory, and confirming and meeting the requirements that apply to you is your responsibility. Any fee figures shown describe the professional fees this work typically pays, based on a percentage of transaction value. They are not a projection, forecast or guarantee of earnings. What an agency owner earns, if anything, depends on their own effort, skill, market and circumstances. Outcomes are not guaranteed. Seek independent professional advice before acting.