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About Acquisition Ace

We're the people who actually bought the businesses.

We help regular people do what used to feel reserved for the wealthy: buy a profitable, established business with the bank’s money — and buy back their time in the process.

★★★★★ 4.8 on Trustpilot · 200+ members have bought a business
Ben Kelly — I bought 8 boring businesses, learn how you can do the same
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200+Members bought a business
$330M+Acquired by members
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Our story

Built by operators who got tired of regular people being left out

Our founder, Ben Kelly, spent six years as a U.S. Army intelligence officer, then went to work at JPMorgan managing money for people many times wealthier than him. The pattern was simple: almost all of them owned businesses. So he bought one — then seven more.

The hardest part was never the deals. It was that nobody teaches ordinary people how any of this actually works. The banks assume you already know. The brokers work for the seller. Acquisition Ace was built to fix that: a plain-English, honest place to learn to buy a business, with a community doing it together.

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Ben Kelly, Founder of Acquisition Ace
Founder

Ben Kelly

Founder of Acquisition Ace · Bonita Springs, Florida

He has signed the personal guarantees, sourced the deals, and run the businesses himself. His teaching comes from doing it — not from a slide deck.

  • 6 years, U.S. Army intelligence officer
  • JPMorgan private banker
  • Owns 8 businesses across industries
  • Teaches everyday people to do the same
Our mission
Help regular people buy boring, profitable businesses with the bank’s money — and get their life back.

Not startups. Not lottery tickets. Established businesses with real customers and real cash flow — the kind that quietly runs the country and can quietly change a family’s life.

Why us

Operators, not marketers

Most of what’s sold about “buying businesses” online is made by marketers who’ve never signed a personal guarantee. We’re the opposite.

We’ve done the thing we teach

Between our team, that’s real acquisitions — diligence, financing, and the messy first ninety days. Not slide decks.

We’re honest about risk

Buying a business can lose money. We say so, everywhere, on purpose.

We show real results, unedited

The closings on our case studies come from members’ own post-closing reports.

Real people, real deals

Members who actually bought a business

Not testimonials we wrote. Real members who closed real acquisitions and shared their stories.

Chase, Acquisition Ace member Michael, Acquisition Ace member Jackie, Acquisition Ace member

The people behind it

Not marketers, just owners. Our founder has bought 8 businesses, and every coach closed their own acquisition before guiding you through yours.

We rank our coaches by real closed deals.See the live scoreboard of who's actually bought the most businesses.
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Editorial standards & how we produce content

People make six- and seven-figure decisions partly on what they read here. We take that seriously. Here's how our educational content is made and maintained.

  • Written and reviewed by experienced operators. Content is produced by people who have actually bought and financed businesses, and reviewed by the Acquisition Ace team before publishing.
  • Grounded in primary sources. When we cite rules or figures (SBA loan requirements, program terms, industry data), we point to primary sources like the U.S. Small Business Administration rather than repeating hearsay.
  • Dated and kept current. Pages carry a "last updated" date, and we revise them when rules or numbers change.
  • Educational, not advice. Everything we publish is general education. It is not personalized financial, legal, or tax advice, for that, talk to a licensed professional who knows your situation.
  • Clear about the unknown. Where a figure is a member's self-reported result or an estimate, we label it. We don't dress up guesses as facts.

Found something wrong or out of date?

Tell us. Accuracy is part of the product. Reach us through the contact page and we'll fix it.

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Educational content only, not financial, legal, or tax advice. Buying a business carries risk and results vary. Member figures are self-reported.