Stop Waiting for Referrals. Build a Proprietary Pipeline of Future Sellers in 90 Days. If It Doesn’t Work, You Don’t Pay.
Not cold email. Not a lead list. We run paid advertising under your brand and put the owners most likely to sell on your calendar. We map your market and show you the plan before you pay anything.
Every application is reviewed personally before any work begins.
Established firms with a team, closing transactions and ready to grow.
A bespoke map of your owner market, before a dollar of campaign spend.
If the pipeline does not deliver sellers, you do not pay. The research is free either way.
Solo operators, new advisers, or anyone shopping for cheap leads.
This is not cold email.
No lists. No sequences sent in your name. No call centres. We run paid advertising under your brand. Owners who are thinking about selling raise their hand, and the ones who fit book onto your calendar. We are the paid advertising specialists for M&A firms. That is what we do.
Referrals are valuable. They are not a growth strategy.
A pipeline built on chance
Existing relationships. Sporadic introductions. Local reputation. An owner calling at exactly the right moment. All of it is real, and all of it produces. But none of it is predictable, and none of it is yours to turn up when you want more.
Your future sellers aren’t in it
The owners who will sell in the next three years are already in your market, running their companies, weighing their options in private. Most have never heard your firm’s name. The issue was never your ability to execute. It’s that your next mandates are not yet in your pipeline.
First contact wins
While your origination waits on the referral chain, competitors and platforms are free to reach those same owners directly. The adviser who starts the conversation first shapes the process, the expectations and, usually, the engagement.
Most of your future sellers are not yet in your pipeline.
We put them there.Know exactly where your next mandates will come from.
The end state is a pipeline your firm owns: a steady flow of owner conversations in the market you choose, arriving whether or not anyone refers you. Sellers reaching out to your firm first, before your competitors know they exist. That’s what you’re applying for.
Here’s how it works, from the start. You apply below. If your firm qualifies, we sit down for a short diagnostic call about your transaction profile, your economics and the owner market you want to grow in. That call costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
If we both see a real opportunity, we do the groundwork, then we build and run the pipeline itself over 90 days: the message that reaches the right owners, the private page that earns their trust, and the follow-up that books them onto your calendar. Before anything launches, you’ll know exactly:
Research first. Deployment second.
Origination diagnostic
A working session with your team: your ideal transaction profile, current mandate sources, fee economics, execution capacity, and the owner market you want investigated. If we both see a real opportunity, the research begins.
Seller-market research
We research and evaluate the proposed market. The objective is to determine whether a credible opportunity actually exists, not to justify a predetermined campaign. If it doesn’t, we say so and you walk away.
Strategy presentation
We present the market opportunity, the priority segments, positioning and messaging, the recommended channels and the campaign economics, alongside the proposed 90-day deployment and its investment.
The 90-day pilot
Where both sides agree the opportunity is viable, Clearscope builds and operates the recommended campaign, and the first owner conversations start reaching your team.
The 90-day structure.
The exact deployment is determined by the research. The structure is always the same: build it properly, put it in market, and refine it on live data.
Build
Market segmentation, data, positioning and messaging. Campaign assets, infrastructure and tracking, built around the segments the research identified. You approve everything before launch.
Launch
Campaign deployment and initial market coverage. Owners in your priority segments start seeing your firm, and the first qualified conversations reach your team.
Optimise
Follow-up, retargeting and messaging refinement. Pipeline development on live data. The objective isn’t a short burst of leads: it’s the foundations of a repeatable, proprietary origination capability.
The goal is not more leads. It is proprietary seller conversations.
Mandates come from one place: sitting across from owners who are considering a sale. Your firm already wins those meetings. What it can’t control today is how many of them happen, and who gets there first.
That’s what this changes. We build and operate the origination infrastructure; your team stays on advisory conversion, client relationships and execution. Progress is measured in the numbers that lead to fees, not impressions.
Complete visibility through the Origination Room.
Every client gets a single, central view of the market being covered, the work being completed and the opportunities being created. No mystery, no monthly PDF theatre.
Before you apply
Because this only works when we’re selective. We take on engagements where we believe the market can genuinely produce mandates for the firm, and we turn down the ones where we don’t. The diagnostic call exists to establish which one yours is, before either side commits to anything.
Signed mandates depend on your proposition and your team’s ability to close, so nobody can honestly guarantee them. What we stand behind is delivery: if the pipeline does not put qualified sellers in front of your firm, you do not pay. The research is free either way, and if it tells us your market can’t support the system at all, we say so before anything gets built.
No. We do not buy lists, we do not send cold email in your name, and we do not use call centres. We run paid advertising under your brand. Owners who are thinking about selling raise their hand, the ones who fit your criteria book onto your calendar, and you see every number along the way. We are the paid advertising specialists for M&A firms. That is what we do.
Whatever it means for your firm. Deal size, sector, geography, revenue, ownership structure: we agree the criteria with you before launch, build them into the application owners fill in, and only owners who pass reach your calendar. A qualified conversation for a $50M advisory firm and a $2M brokerage are different things, and the system is set up for yours.
No. Every piece of content is approved in writing by your firm before it runs, you can change or pull anything at any time, and we keep records of what ran and when. Our agreement sets this out in full and we are happy for your counsel to review it before you commit.
Only the ones the research justifies. Depending on your market, the deployment may combine targeted owner outreach, paid social, search, database reactivation, owner education content, retargeting and email nurture. We don’t force every client into the same template, and we don’t recommend a channel because it’s the one we like selling.
It depends on your market and the deployment the research recommends. We walk through the engagement structure and the investment on the diagnostic call, before you commit to anything. No long-term contract, and you keep every asset we build.
No. Where the opportunity is viable we’ll present the recommended 90-day deployment, but your firm is under no obligation. The research, the segments and the plan are yours to keep either way.
Your next sell-side mandate is already in your market.
The only question is whether your firm reaches that owner first. Apply, and we map the market, the strongest segments and the exact 90 day plan before you pay anything.
Apply to Build Your Seller Pipeline