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.
A year of retainer is one point on one deal — and one deal returns it several times over.
What We Run For Consolidators
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.
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 — written into the agreement and reported weekly. Our floor is higher than most firms' ceiling.
The Record · Alongside Partners
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
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.
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.