The Buy-Side ROI Calculator
Set your acquisition volume, deal size, and typical broker fee — watch brokered cost, an in-house build, and the off-market premium recalculate instantly. Every assumption is labeled and editable. We confirm your real numbers on a 5-minute call.
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The instrument — three inputs, instant math
Drag the sliders to match your acquisition plan. Nothing here is submitted anywhere until you ask us to run your custom analysis below.
How many acquisitions you'd like to close annually.
Typical target enterprise value. Drag the slider or type an exact figure.
Blended success fee charged on close, range 2–6%.
Illustrative only — we confirm real numbers on a call. Excludes ramp time, hiring risk, and severance if the build doesn't work out.
Brokered route — annual cost
deals/yr × avg. EV × success fee %
All figures on this panel are illustrative — a modeling starting point, not a quote. Sentinel's structures are typically retainer + success, pilot, or success-only, and are typically below brokered success fees at volume. Exact terms are set on a 5-minute call.
The number brokers don't show you
A broker roster shows you whatever happens to be listed with them. Sentinel's engine maps the entire ownership universe in your sector first — including the owners who were never going to call a broker at all.
Where Sentinel fits
Sentinel reaches the ~95% of owners a broker network never calls — mapped by a 10M+ record engine, verified in the owner's own words, and delivered to you as one target, one partner, with your written approval before any introduction.
Engagements run as a retainer + success fee, a pilot program, or success-only — typically below brokered success fees at volume. Exact terms are matched to the numbers you just modeled, and set on a 5-minute call, not a rate card.
Turn this into a plan
Send us the numbers you just modeled. A principal will benchmark them against active buy-side programs and reply with a one-page model — your brokered-fee exposure, a realistic Sentinel structure for your volume, and where off-market access changes the math.