You built it. You sold it. You know exactly what the next owner is about to walk into.
DealFlowAgent is a VC-backed, specialist sell-side M&A firm for building services, fire and life safety, facilities management and specialised healthcare. We are inviting a small number of exited founders to join us as Advisory Partners. Lend your name and judgement, make the occasional introduction, and share in the fee when a deal you touch completes.
Owners trust the person who has sat in their chair.
You have been there.
Diligence, earn-outs, the 2am doubts, the buyer who went quiet. A seller believes a person who has lived it, in a way they never quite believe an adviser who has not.
They already come to you.
Owners in your network ask how you did it. Most have no idea who to trust with their own exit. Right now you point them nowhere.
Your name works while you sleep.
Listed as an Advisory Partner, your credibility reassures a seller before a single call is booked. That is most of the value, and it costs you nothing.
A seat that respects your time.
What an Advisory Partner actually does. And does not.
What we ask
- Your name, photo, a short bio and one quote on our site.
- Up to a couple of reassurance calls with a seller, when it genuinely helps.
- The occasional introduction, when it is natural. Never forced.
What we never ask
- No being in the weeds. No inbox to manage.
- No minimum hours. No retainer of your time.
- No obligation on any deal that does not interest you.
You choose your level, deal by deal.
Light touch, or lead the deal. Three qualitative bands. No percentages on the page.
Light
Your name, and a reassurance call with a seller on a live deal. The quiet end. A share of our fee on that deal.
Active
You help work a live deal: follow-ups, sense-checking strategy, helping shape the buyer list. A larger share.
Originate
You bring the seller, or the buyer who completes. The biggest share, because without you the deal does not exist.
Every engagement is by invitation and agreed in writing before you lift a finger, so there is never a debate afterwards about who did what.
You are paid only when a deal you touch completes and our fee clears. The full tiered fee schedule sits inside the Advisory Partner Agreement.
In practice, that is five to six figures on a completed deal, typically paid within weeks of close.
A specialist firm worth putting your name to.
Pure specialists
Pure specialists in building services, fire and life safety, facilities management and specialised healthcare. Not generalists.
VC-backed
Backed by Long Journey Ventures, reinvesting in research, tooling and buyer mapping inside the niche.
A brand owners know
A brand owners already recognise from events and trade press.
A live buyer network
A live, mapped buyer network, not a static list.
A two-minute word from Joe, founder of DealFlowAgent.
Who the programme is for, what we ask, and how Advisory Partners get paid.
"I've known Joe for four years and I'm one of the shareholders backing what he's building. He's honourable, a true gentleman, and what's coming in Building Services and Healthcare M&A is genuinely exciting. I've spent thirty years building my network, and when an owner I'm speaking with starts exploring a sale, I make a warm intro to Joe and the team so we can work the process together."
What partners usually ask.
How to join.
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Book a 30-minute call with Joe.
We confirm your background, the niches that fit, and the kind of involvement that suits you.
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We agree your level.
Light, active, or open to leading deals. Nothing is fixed.
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Review and sign the Advisory Partner Agreement.
Short, human, commercially clean. Paid on completion, non-exclusive, non-circumvention.
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You are listed as an Advisory Partner.
Your profile goes live. Your name starts working immediately.
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We bring you in where you make the difference.
On the deals that fit you, agreed in writing up front, paid when we collect.
We are inviting a small number of partners. If that is you, let's talk.
Book the 30-minute call, message on WhatsApp, or email Joe directly.
Or email joe@dealflowagent.comBook a Confidential Call
Book a confidential 30-minute call with Joe from our M&A advisory team. No obligation. Everything discussed stays between us.