Engagement structures · numbers on one short call
Four ways to buy with Sentinel.
Pick your lane.
We publish the structures openly — every one of them. The specific numbers are set on a five-minute call and confirmed in writing within a day, because the right terms depend on your buy box: sector, geography, pace, and what we are already running near it. What never changes: you approve every target by name before any introduction, and deals your own team sources are yours, fee-free, full stop.
The ladder
1 · Mandate PartnerMost chosen
A monthly retainer plus a reduced success fee on closings from the pipeline you approve. This is the lane our most acquisitive partners run in — one of them has roughly twenty of our sourced deals in flow right now.
- First look, always — every matched opportunity reaches Mandate Partners before anyone else sees it
- Active hunting, not passive matching — a dedicated team, human and AI, works your buy box every working day
- The lowest fee tier we offer — the retainer typically repays itself on the first closed deal
- Live pipeline portal — see and approve targets weekly
- A qualified-call floor, stated in writing, reported weekly
- Month to month — judged on delivered numbers, no lock-in; most partners start with a trial period
2 · Success Partner
No retainer. Pay only when a deal you approved closes — at a materially higher success fee than Mandate Partners pay, with opportunities offered after the Mandate priority window. A legitimate way to prove the flow before committing; most who start here convert.
3 · Deal Alerts — the Buyer Network
Register your buy box, free. When a business we represent matches it, you receive the anonymized teaser — under NDA before any name moves. Fair warning, stated plainly: Mandate Partners will have seen it first.
4 · The Desk Platform Preview
Run your own proprietary deals on the platform behind our practice — pipeline, NDA-first data rooms with per-document access logs, AI-assembled teasers and materials. In limited partner preview; join the waitlist and we will walk you through it.
The comparison that matters
Against the brokered alternative
Buying a brokered deal
- The seller's 6–10% broker fee is already inside the price you pay
- An auction on top, against every other buyer in the market
- You are one bidder among many, negotiating up
Buying on a Sentinel mandate
- Unrepresented sellers, sourced for you — no broker fee baked into the price
- No auction — you are the only buyer at the table during your window
- A reduced success fee the retainer typically repays on the first close — the exact numbers take five minutes on a call
Straight answers
The questions buyers ask
Why don't you publish the numbers?
Because the honest answer is “it depends on your buy box” — sector heat, geography, pace, and the mandates we already run near yours. The structure is public; the numbers take one call and arrive in writing within a day. No pitch theater.
Is there a long-term contract?
No. Month to month. Two months is enough to judge us on delivered numbers, and if the numbers are not there you stop.
Do I pay a success fee on deals my own team found?
No. Every target is approved by you by name before any introduction, and fees apply only to transactions from that approved pipeline. Attribution is agreed in writing at the start, not argued about at closing.
What makes the Mandate lane worth a retainer?
Three things nobody else in the ladder gets: the first-look window on every matched opportunity, a sourcing team actively hunting your buy box daily, and the lowest fee tier we offer — which is why the retainer typically repays itself on the first closed deal.
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