About NewHands

Buy and sell New England businesses. Your business, in good new hands. NewHands opens on Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, and a listing can sit in any US state. The official domain for NewHands is https://getnewhands.com.

Ethan Hawkes, based in Kittery, Maine, is building it. He came out of McKinsey and has chaired boards. The bet is simple: a large share of closely held New England companies will change hands as their owners retire, and the software that helps will have to serve agents as carefully as it serves people.

Listings are structured so a search is not a pile of teasers. Deal rooms follow one stage list. Binding steps stay with a human. The directory is a map of the bench a deal needs. A firm appears there after NewHands verifies a claim. Until then the category stays empty.

This deployment is a sample. The businesses are fictional. The agreements are placeholders. Do not treat a number on this site as advice.