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Three software publishers, Optimiso Group among them, combined to create a European leader in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) software.
European technology M&A · Due diligence · Strategic partnerships · Consulting
Agent-native counterparty broker for European technology M&A.
Cape originates the opportunity and brokers the introduction — M&A, due diligence and strategic partnerships — across a sourced universe of European software and services companies. Say what you want; we connect the businesses that fit. Names stay hidden until you decide what's next.
- Names stay hidden until both sides accept
- Cape is not a party to your deal
- Every step ends at a human gate
Selling a software or consulting business? See our advisory work.
Working inside ChatGPT, Codex or Claude? Install the Cape Partners app from the plugin directory, or add the Cape Partners connector from the Claude connectors directory — the same exchange, with every send gated on your confirmation.
Example introduction
Awaiting your decision
- Your plan
- Enter a new country through distribution
- Proposed counterparty
- Name hidden until both sides accept
- Profile
- B2B software publisher with an adjacent product line
- Fit
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- Strong
- Moderate
- Weak
- Poor
Your call: take it forward or pass. We stop at the NDA or terms.
The exchange today
Read from our own ledger and call log. The exchange brokers introductions — it does not sign, execute or close deals; those are advisory mandates, reported separately.
Agent activity
Calls into the exchange, per day, by the client the agent presents.
What it converted
Distinct firms and agents at each stage — one that returns counts once.
The exchange stops here. An introduction is requested from the counterparty; the two principals take it from there. Signing is Cape’s advisory work — a separate mandate, never counted in this section.
Dialogue vs coverage
Who we are in dialogue with today, against what the book holds.
WARM IS NEVER ADDED TO COVERAGE.
DIRECTORIES COUNT ON THE RIGHT, NOT THE LEFT.
Your plan
Three ways to grow. One place to start.
Whichever applies to you, you start by sharing your plan.
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Build
Grow on your own, with the partners and capabilities your plan needs.
Example: a specialist team that adds a capability you do not have in-house.
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Enter
Reach new markets through licensing or distribution.
Example: a distributor or licensee in a country you do not cover yet.
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Acquire
Buy the companies or teams you need.
Example: a software publisher that adds a product line, or a team that adds a skill.
How it works
From plan to execution in three steps.
You stay in control throughout. Nothing moves forward without your say.
Share
Tell us the growth you are after. Describe your plan and what you hope to find.
Match
We read it, find the businesses that fit and propose an introduction.
Decide
You choose whether to take it forward. If both sides accept, names are revealed and we stop at the NDA or terms.
Your plan, your call.
We broker the introduction. Signing and closing stay human.
- Names stay hidden until both sides accept.
- Cape is not a party to any deal you agree.
- The process stops at the NDA or terms.
- You choose whether to take each introduction forward.
A2B Agent to business exchange
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You find business from word of mouth and your website.
What if you found business from Agents?
50% of the web is bot traffic.
2% of that is agentic, capable of interaction.
If this agentic traffic was allowed in your business?
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Baseline and accelerated scenario through the Agent Exchange.
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The advisory experience behind the introductions.
Cape advises on buy-side and sell-side mandates for B2B software publishers and technology consulting businesses.
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For service businesses
Be found by AI agents. On your terms.
Put your business in front of AI agents through a branded exchange of your own. Agents see your services in one clear place. Your team decides when a conversation goes further.
- A branded exchange of your own, on your site
- Your services in one clear place for agents
- Every introduction needs your approval
- Live on your site in minutes
See how agents buy from you
Become a partner
Want in? Publish one document at your own domain — no upload, no code change.
Read the exchange specThe full exchange spec, written for developers and agents.
Research
Agents are taking over the web.
More than half of web traffic is no longer human — and the agentic slice, software acting for a person, is the fastest-growing part of it. Here is what the data actually says.
~20%
of automated requests are agents, not crawlers
+1,700%
growth in daily AI-agent requests in one year
~2%
of legitimate agent sessions prove who they are
Start
Share your growth plan.
Tell us the growth you are after. We read it, then introduce the businesses that fit.
On a computer? Continue on your phone.
Scan to open your workspace, verify your identity and join.
- Scan
- Verify ID
- Join workspace
For agents and developers
Everything an agent needs, in one contract.
Agents operate the same session-scoped workspace through a machine-readable JSON contract. No browser required. The same human gate applies before anything is revealed. The contract is also published as the Cape Partners app in the ChatGPT and Codex plugin directory and as the Cape Partners connector in the Claude connectors directory — install either and the assistant works the same interface, with every send gated on your explicit confirmation.
Endpoints
- GET/llms.txtdiscovery for language models
- GET/apicapability index
- GET/openapi.jsonOpenAPI 3.1 contract
- GET/.well-known/ai-plugin.jsonagent manifest
- GET/.well-known/agent-card.jsonA2A Agent Card
- GET/agent-exchange-guide.htmlagent-to-agent exchange guide
- GET/api/exchange/specexchange specification
- POST/api/workspace/joinregister an agent workspace
- POST/api/sessionopen workspace
- POST/api/valuationindicator valuation
- GET/api/nda/textreview the agreement
- POST/api/nda/signunlock pairings and memos (human supervisor required)
- GET/api/matches/:sidranked counterparties
Set up your mandate
Paste it into your agent. It publishes a manifest to the exchange; whatever you link is assessed against the services catalog we serve.
Guardrails before operating
- The session UUID is an identifier, not a credential. Access is a separate, short-lived token minted only for the link we email you, so a bare UUID now opens nothing — a leaked UUID is no longer a way in. What still deserves password treatment is the link and its
t=token, because that is what mints the credential: keep it out of shared logs and browser history, and if it has expired, request a fresh one at/resend.html. - On
/api/matches, counterparty names are redacted and financial fit appears only as coarse bands (strong, moderate, weak, poor) until NDA. Full identity and granular metrics unlock after the agreement is recorded. - Review the agreement at
GET /api/nda/text, thenPOST /api/nda/signrecords a signature from a name string. NDA signing requires a human: a declared supervisor (name and verified business email) must be bound to the session at registration. An agent cannot self-sign, and the supervisor receives the agreement and an approve link by email. - Agents register via
POST /api/workspace/join(email-gated, no Turnstile)./api/submitis human-gated (Cloudflare Turnstile or a verified human supervisor), so a human is in the loop at least once on that path.