For Home Services Platforms · Direct Engagement
Brokered listings mean auctions — every consolidator in the market bidding on the same shop. Sentinel is the retained buy-side engine behind home-services platforms: we approach founder-led HVAC, plumbing, and trades operators 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 an operator reaches a broker, the seller's fee is priced in and every consolidator in the market sees the same deal. The platforms that grow fastest own the top of their funnel — proprietary conversations with founders who weren't for sale yesterday. That funnel is what we build and run for you.
The retainer typically repays itself on the first closed deal — and the exact numbers take one five-minute call.
Quick answer
For home-services platforms — HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, pest — Sentinel sources owner-direct, off-market targets with verified financials, matched to your buy-box before you ever see them.
Key takeaways
What We Run For Consolidators
Sentinel sources for retained buy-side partners — we never present ourselves as the buyer, and on your mandate we act for you alone — never for the seller. On a retained platform mandate the cadence we build to runs 2–5 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 — HVAC, plumbing, and the trades around them — and approach founders by name, off-market. No broker listings.
Every submission is a business whose owner confirmed the criteria and said yes to a meeting — revenue, recurring mix, 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 and reported weekly. Our floor is higher than most firms' ceiling.
The Record · Alongside Partners
Sourcing, qualifying and closing alongside partners
Transactions closed with leading North American groups — from single-doctor practices to multi-location platform acquisitions — with capital deployed alongside partners under signed mandates. Partner and platform identities are 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.
Established home-services businesses for a platform deploying growth capital.
PE-backed platform seeking add-ons: owner open to a 12–24 month transition.
The engine is sector-agnostic; the depth points wherever your mandate does. On the board within the week — criteria locked, owners approached by name.
Engagement Structures · Published Openly
Success-fee-only is available too, at a materially higher fee than Mandate Partners pay. The specific numbers take one five-minute call and arrive in writing within a day — the full ladder is on the engagement structures page.
Straight Answers
Next Step
A principal replies within one business day.
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A qualified call: every criterion met, and the owner said yes to the meeting, calibrated to the mandate. The floor for your mandate is agreed before signing and reported weekly.