Find distressed businesses before your competitors do.
InsolvIQ monitors WARN Act notices, bankruptcy filings, UCC liens, Google closures, and 4 other public signals to surface businesses that need auction services. Each lead is enriched with owner contact data and scored by urgency. Updated daily in your dashboard.
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Distress signals
3
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, and often after a competitor has already 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. It is 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. No data team needed. Think PropStream for real estate foreclosures, but for commercial asset auctions.
Ingest
6 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, and email pulled automatically. No manual lookup.
Deliver
A plain-English lead brief hits your dashboard with comparable auction results and commission estimate.
Key capabilities
Everything a rep needs, from first signal to signed contract.
Multi-source signal stacking
Six data sources, eight distress signals: federal court filings, public lien registries, business directories, workforce data, and more. Tracked continuously. The more signals that fire together, the higher the urgency score.
Enriched owner contact data
Every lead arrives with the owner's name, direct phone number, and email address. 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 industry and region, and an estimated commission.
Built-in pipeline CRM
Move leads through sales stages (Contacted, Interested, Site Visit, Contract, Won) without leaving the platform. Track pipeline value and log every call, email, and note against each lead.
Outreach sequence library
Pre-built email templates with merge tags that auto-fill business name, owner contact, industry, asset estimate, and commission. Four proven templates from first touch to final notice.
Analytics & reporting
Pipeline value, conversion rate, average deal size, and signal effectiveness in one dashboard. See which signals convert best and where your commission is sitting right now.
Sales workflow
Not just a lead list. A complete sales system.
Most lead tools hand you a spreadsheet. InsolvIQ gives you a built-in workflow that takes a lead from first signal all the way to signed contract. Pipeline stages, call queue, follow-up tracking, and outreach sequences are included by default.
Built-in pipeline stages
Move leads forward as you work them. Pipeline value and conversion rate tracked automatically.
Calls Today
A prioritized call queue built from your hottest leads. Tier 1 and Tier 2 only, with owner phone numbers ready. One click to dial, log the outcome, and move on.
Follow-up Tracker
Overdue, due today, and upcoming follow-ups automatically surfaced from your pipeline. Nothing slips through. Every contacted and interested lead stays visible until it's resolved.
Territory Analytics
See your pipeline value, conversion rate, average deal size, and signal effectiveness in one view. Know exactly which signals are converting and where your commission is sitting.
Signal stack
Eight public signals. One urgency score.
Each distress signal is weighted by how strongly it predicts an imminent liquidation event. Signals stack: 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
WARN Notice (+3) + UCC Lien (+2) = 5 pts → 60-day window before closure
Federal liquidation filing. The highest urgency signal.
Federal restructuring filing. Owner still in control, with a strong outreach window.
Legally mandated 60-day notice of mass layoff or plant closure. Owner still controls assets. The earliest actionable signal in the stack.
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
1–4 pts
Action
Monitor for escalation
Typical trigger
1–2 signals, no bankruptcy yet
Early Access Now Available
Ready to stop cold calling and start finding the right businesses at the right moment?
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