Synergy Business Brokers
At a Glance
The clearest of the brokers on when a fee is owed, and the only one on this shelf that names a broker in each state it claims, which is what makes it filterable rather than national in the abstract.
- Pricing
- Success Fee, Says in its own words that it does not charge a fee unless it sells the business, so there is no retainer or listing fee. Its seller FAQ post states a flat fee of 10 percent for a business with cash flow of $600,000 or less and a sliding scale from 10 to 5 percent above that, left to the listing agreement, beside the industry's 5 to 12 percent range quoted for context.
- Best For
- Buyers who want a broker's industry practice pages as a read on how a trade is priced and packaged, and who are hunting in one of the ten states it names
- Kind
- One firm, one bench of brokers, one process.
- Footprint
- Names Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas. It works beyond the states it names, so one it does not name is worth asking about rather than ruling out.
- Sells
- Profitable companies at $700,000 to $250 million of annual revenue, and separately at $250,000 to $30 million of the owner's annual net income, across construction, distribution and service industries. Those are two different measures, and each industry page it publishes names a narrower net-income ceiling of $7 million.
- Publishes a size, and not one a buyer can use.
- Seller Fee
- Publishes a schedule. The actual percentages are on its own site, so a seller's quote can be checked against them.
- Buyer Fee
- Says the buyer pays nothing. It states that the seller pays and the buyer does not. Read it as a claim about its own listings; a separate buy-side search, where one is offered, may be priced differently and often is not priced at all.
- Its home page states it in one sentence: there is no fee for buying a business through Synergy Business Brokers, beside the instruction to fill out the NDA for whichever businesses interest you. Read at the apex host, since the www host answers a challenge page.
- Works For
- Buyer list only. Invites buyers onto a list to see or be alerted to its own listings. That is access, not advocacy: the firm is still paid by the seller.
- Before It Shows You Anything
- Wants an NDA, and asks for nothing further in writing. A confidentiality agreement and nothing else the site states in writing, which is the shallowest gate on this shelf and still a gate.
- A confidentiality agreement on each listing, and that is the whole of what its buyer pages ask for in writing before details are released.
- Roadmap Stages
- 2. Define & Test Your Thesis4. Source & Screen Deals
Pros and Cons
Pros
- Names its brokers state by state on its contact page, covering Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas, so a buyer can tell whether it works their market
- Sells across a wide revenue band, from $700,000 to $250 million a year, so its listings span a first acquisition and a platform deal
- Publishes a separate practice page for each industry it works, which is a useful read on how that trade gets priced and positioned before you meet anyone
Cons
- Its rate sits in a blog post, a flat 10 percent at or under $600,000 of cash flow with the scale above that left to the listing agreement, so the number for a larger business still arrives in a document
- Represents sellers, so on a live deal its duty sits on the other side of the table from a buyer
- Its top-ten claims are aggregated from outside ranking sites rather than from a licensing body, so weigh them as marketing
What Searchers Say
Founding year, revenue band, fee policy, and the state-by-state broker list all read from its own about, industries and contact pages, and its contact page now names brokers abroad beside the ten states. Its www address walls automated readers behind a browser challenge; the bare domain serves. Axial's league tables ranked the firm fifth on the 2024 list, twenty-fifth across 2025, and do not list it on the mid-2026 table. The public review base is thin, a five-star average over six reviews, so neither praise nor complaint patterns can honestly be read from it.
How to Approach
Synergy Business Brokers is a brokerage, and it works for the seller rather than for you, so this is how that side of the table comes in and what it is deciding about you.
The Typical Arc
- A teaser and an NDA, before you see the name of the business.
- A call with the listing broker, who is screening you as much as answering you.
- The CIM, then a seller meeting the broker schedules and usually sits in on.
- Your offer, carried by the broker to the seller they represent.
What It Weighs
- Whether your money is real: how much is cash, and where the rest is coming from.
- Whether your criteria are specific enough to match against a listing.
- How fast you move, because the fee arrives on a close rather than on a conversation.
How to Prepare
- Write the one page a broker asks for before you inquire. Buyer Profile Builder
- Set criteria specific enough for a listing to match. Buy Box Builder
- Know what you can pay before the CIM lands. Business Valuation Calculator