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For Home Services Platforms · Direct Engagement

The best operators never hit the listings. We call their owners first.

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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1,000,000+
Owners reached to date
100+
Closings since 2020 · $800K–$96M
20+ calls
In 90 days on high-velocity mandates

Auctions vs. Proprietary Flow

Every listed business comes with an auction attached.

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 brokered route
Seller's brokerage fee (6–10%), priced in$360K–$600K
Auction — every buyer sees the dealMarket top
Your position in the processOne of many
The retained route
Success fee (4%)$240K
Full year of retainer~$60K
Your positionOnly buyer at the table

A year of retainer is one point on one deal — and one deal returns it several times over.

What We Run For Consolidators

A dedicated origination engine on your buy box.

Sentinel sources for retained buy-side partners — we never present ourselves as the buyer, and we never take the sell side. On a retained platform mandate the cadence runs 3–5 qualified calls a week, 1–3 LOIs a month, and 4–10 closings a year — per platform.

01 · COVERAGE

Your market, mapped to the owner

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.

02 · QUALIFIED

Owner-verified before you see it

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.

03 · APPROVAL-GATED

You approve every name first

Every target is approved by you by name before any introduction. One target, one partner — your targets are never shopped to another buyer.

04 · GUARANTEED

In writing, not implied

20+ qualified calls in the first 90 days — written into the agreement and reported weekly. Our floor is higher than most firms' ceiling.

The Record · Alongside Partners

$500M+

Deployed alongside partners since 2020

100+ closings since 2020, ranging from $800K to a single $96M acquisition, with $500M+ deployed alongside partners since 2020. Partner and platform identities are confidential by policy — named references available under protocol during your diligence.

From the Live Board

Home-services mandates sourcing right now.

Straight from the live mandate board — anonymized by policy, criteria never softened. Your mandate can be live, sourced, and qualified within the week.

01

Founder-led operators — national

Established home-services businesses for a platform deploying growth capital.

$5M+ revenue · founder-led · growth capital
See it on the board
02

HVAC & plumbing platform — Southeast or Texas

PE-backed platform seeking add-ons: owner open to a 12–24 month transition.

$1M–$4M EBITDA · 40%+ recurring service-agreement revenue
See it on the board
03

Your mandate here

The engine is sector-agnostic; the depth points wherever your mandate does. On the board within the week — criteria locked, owners approached by name.

Criteria locked · owners approached by name · no broker listings
Claim the slot

Pricing · Published Openly

The whole number, on one page.

$5,000 a month, plus 4% on closings.
Month to month · no lock-in

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

What consolidators ask first.

We buy HVAC and plumbing companies. Do you cover the trades?
Yes. A live mandate on our board is a PE-backed HVAC and plumbing platform seeking add-ons at $1M–$4M EBITDA with 40%+ recurring service-agreement revenue, and founder-led home-services operators at $5M+ revenue are sourced nationally. Roofing, pest, and other trades are briefed the same way — criteria locked, owners approached by name, no broker listings.
What does retained origination cost?
Sentinel charges $5,000 per month plus 4% on closings, month to month. A full year of retainer is roughly one percentage point on a single $6M transaction.
How do we know it's working?
20+ qualified owner calls in the first 90 days on high-velocity mandates — written into the agreement, reported weekly.

Next Step

Tell us the buy box. We'll tell you if we can fill it.

A principal replies within one business day.

✓ A principal replies✓ Confidential✓ One partner at a time✓ Month to month

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20+Calls · 90 Days
The Sentinel Guarantee
20+ qualified calls in your first 90 days — written into the agreement.

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.

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