For DSOs · Direct Engagement
Brokered listings mean auctions — every DSO in the market bidding on the same practice. Sentinel is the retained buy-side engine behind acquisitive DSOs: we approach GP and specialty owners by name, off-market, qualify them against your buy box, and put you alone at the table.
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Auctions vs. Proprietary Flow
By the time a practice reaches a broker, the seller's fee is priced in and every consolidator in the market sees the same deal. The DSOs that grow fastest own the top of their funnel — proprietary conversations with owners who weren't for sale yesterday. That funnel is what we build and run for you.
A year of retainer is one point on one deal — and one deal returns it several times over.
What We Run For DSOs
Sentinel sources for retained buy-side partners — we never present ourselves as the buyer, and we never take the sell side. On a retained DSO mandate the cadence runs 3–5 qualified calls a week, 1–3 LOIs a month, and 4–10 closings a year — per platform.
We build the full owner universe for your buy box — GP, pediatric, ortho, specialty — and approach owners by name, off-market. No broker listings.
Every submission is a practice whose owner confirmed the criteria and said yes to a meeting — operatories, revenue, transition posture verified on the call.
Every target is approved by you by name before any introduction. One target, one partner — your targets are never shopped to another buyer.
20+ qualified calls in the first 90 days — written into the agreement and reported weekly. Our floor is higher than most firms' ceiling.
Case File · Confidential
Names redacted by policy — the numbers are not.
We ran retained origination behind a PE-backed DSO platform, sourcing add-on after add-on until the platform stood at more than four times its starting footprint.
On the strength of that record, the fund itself engaged Sentinel directly — to launch an entirely new DSO in a new geography. We sourced the target that became its founding acquisition. The platform is live and acquiring today.
Fund and platforms confidential by policy. Named references available under protocol during your diligence.
From the Live Board
Straight from the live mandate board — anonymized by policy, criteria never softened. Your mandate can be live, sourced, and qualified within the week.
Multi-op general practices for a PE-backed DSO in active add-on mode.
Specialty practices for a consolidator building density across fast-growing Sun Belt markets.
The engine is sector-agnostic; the depth points wherever your mandate does. On the board within the week — criteria locked, owners approached by name.
Pricing · Published Openly
Most firms in our category make you sit through a pitch before they will tell you that. We would rather you knew now and decided whether the math works. The full economics — against brokered deals and in-house hiring — are on the pricing page.
Straight Answers
Next Step
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A qualified call: every criterion met, and the owner said yes to the meeting — written into your agreement, calibrated to the mandate. We can promise it because our floor is higher than most firms' ceiling.