Axial M&A Advisor Directory Scraper

Scrape Axial's public lower-middle-market M&A advisor directory. Extract every advisory firm listed across all 7+ category pages — business brokers, investment banks, PE firms, family offices, independent sponsors, holding companies, and M&A advisory firms — with firm name, category, profile URL, and recent-M&A-activity flag.

What it scrapes

Axial is the leading lower-middle-market deal network. Its public company directory lists thousands of deal-maker firms organized by type, each with tombstone cards showing recent transaction activity. This actor crawls every category page and paginates through all results.

Extracted fields:

Field	Description
firm_id	Stable slug identifier derived from the profile URL
firm_name	Advisory firm name
category	Normalised category (e.g. business_broker, investment_bank, pe_firm)
profile_url	Full URL to the firm's Axial profile
recent_ma_activity	Whether the firm displays recent M&A tombstones on its public card
advisor_type_flags	Category label as displayed on the directory card
logo_url	Firm logo image URL, when the card displays one
firm_description	Firm's own summary blurb as shown on the directory card
closed_deals_via_axial	Number of deals the firm has closed via Axial
total_closed_deals	Firm's total closed-deal count
recent_transactions	Recent deal tombstones (date + one-line description) shown on the card
scraped_at	Timestamp the record was delivered to you

Use cases

• Lead generation for vendors — build prospect lists of M&A advisors, brokers, and intermediaries active in the lower-middle market
• Competitive intelligence — map the advisor landscape by type and activity level
• Research — census of deal-makers by category across Axial's network

Input

Parameter	Type	Description
maxItems	integer	Maximum number of advisor records to scrape

Output

Each record represents one advisory firm card from Axial's directory. With maxItems: 100, the actor fetches across all category pages until the cap is reached.

Notes

• Location and industry focus are not publicly visible on Axial directory cards and are not part of the output.
• All 7 main category slugs are crawled: business-brokers, investment-banks, private-equity-funds, family-offices, holding-companys, independent-sponsors, m-a-advisory-firms.
• Pagination follows the Next Page link automatically through all pages in each category.