Benchmark International Experience

I've come across what feels like a boiler room M&A brokerage for the lower-middle market called Benchmark International, and I'm curious if anyone has done any work with them in the past and could speak to their experience? https://www.benchmarkcorporate.com/

I received a quarterly opportunity deck from them which has 80 pages with 4-6 businesses on each. If you request info you get a really useless teaser with revenue, EBITDA, and a brief description. I requested more info on a few and received CIMs back that were clearly built off of a stock template, but weren't completely terrible. I've seen worse from the independent sponsor types.

Anyways, when I have spoken with them it feels like they are just dialing for dollars, and my hunch is that for their opportunities, they have

 

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