Corporate Development · Service

Every counterparty.
One pipeline.

Strategic partnerships, target sourcing, and go-to-market expansion — sourced, qualified, and closed on Beaumont Deal Engine.

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ACTIVE MANDATES 47
COUNTERPARTIES TRACKED 1,842
PARTNERSHIPS SIGNED / YR 86
AUTONOMY 71%
MEDIAN TIME TO FIRST MTG 9 D

Corp Dev in growth-stage companies is a part-time job no-one owns.

The CEO owns the relationship. The strategy lead owns the thesis. Nobody owns the pipeline. Partnerships stall. Targets go cold. M&A opportunities surface and disappear in the same week. We run it as a function — not a side project.

◉ FRICTION 01

No pipeline

Targets live in spreadsheets. Conversations live in Slack. Nobody can see status at a glance.

◉ FRICTION 02

Manual sourcing

Identifying partners, acquirers, channels — done by memory and LinkedIn searches. Slow and shallow.

◉ FRICTION 03

Fragmented outreach

Every CEO has their network. None of it is shared, scored, or queryable. Every intro starts from zero.

◉ FRICTION 04

No follow-through

Initial meeting → silence. Partnership term sheets sit open for months. Momentum decays without a dedicated owner.

Four mandate types. All run on one pipeline.

01

Strategic Partnerships

Channel, distribution, integration, and co-marketing partnerships. For an AI company: driving users onto the platform via strategic partners.

Channel Distribution Integration
02

Target Sourcing & Screening

Continuous discovery of acquisition targets, JV partners, license candidates. Fit-scored by thesis, sector, geography, and founder profile.

M&A targets JV partners Licensees
03

Go-to-Market Expansion

Building the revenue engine. New geos, new verticals, new customer segments. Partnership-led growth paired with Digital Marketing.

New geos Verticals Paired w/ DM
04

M&A Advisory

Sell-side or buy-side mandates. Deal Engine tracks every counterparty, every touch, every document. Data room built-in.

Sell-side Buy-side Data room

Six phases. From thesis to signed term sheet.

PHASE 01

Thesis

Scope + success criteria
PHASE 02

Universe

Source + enrich
PHASE 03

Qualify

Fit-score · tier
PHASE 04

Approach

Warm · direct · referral
PHASE 05

Diligence

Data room · Q&A
PHASE 06

Close

Term sheet → signed

Nine stages. Every counterparty, tracked.

01
Sourced
02
Qualified
03
Approached
04
Engaged
05
Exploring
06
NDA
07
Diligence
08
Term Sheet
09
Signed

Case study — AI platform user acquisition via partnerships.

A representative engagement: drive platform adoption at an AI company through structured strategic partnerships, paired tightly with Digital Marketing.

CONTEXT
Series-B AI platform. 40K users. Plateau.

Product was sticky but growth had stalled. Paid acquisition costs were climbing. Organic reached its early-adopter ceiling. The next curve had to come from distribution — getting the product in front of audiences it hadn't earned yet.

THESIS
The best users are already in someone else's product.

Partnership-led growth: identify 40+ adjacent platforms whose users were a natural fit, structure co-selling and integration deals, and use Digital Marketing to make every partnership loud.

EXECUTION
Deal Engine + Digital Marketing, in lockstep.

Deal Engine sourced and scored partners. Outreach ran in principal-led tracks. Every signed partnership triggered a joint content kit — blog, email, X + LinkedIn thread, TikTok cut, sector-persona amplification. Compliance Gate handled the co-branded messaging.

Deal Engine Lead Engine Sector Personas Compliance Gate
OUTCOME
14 partners signed. +180% monthly active users.

Within 6 months: 14 strategic partnerships live, partner-driven signups became the largest acquisition channel, paid CAC fell 34% as organic share grew. 9 additional partnerships in diligence. The Corp Dev function is now permanent.

Where targets come from.

Surface Mandate Fit AI Layer Volume / Mo
Portfolio graphPartnerships · M&ARelationship strength scoring— (STATIC)
Lead Engine discoveryAll mandate typesFit-score vs. thesis1,200+
Filings + disclosuresM&A targetsEvent extraction · signal filter340+
Conference + event dataPartnerships · GTMAttendee dedup · warm-path routing180+
Principal introsAll mandate typesContext brief · history pull60+
Inbound (Voice Agent)Partnerships · GTMIntent classification · routingVARIES

Partnerships close faster when the audience already knows the name.

Every Corp Dev program ships with a Digital Marketing counterpart. Owned audience. Sector personas. Paid retargeting. A partnership announcement with a warm landing page converts 3-5× a cold one.

01 · PRE

Warm the surface

Sector persona content targeting the partner's audience. By the time outreach starts, they've seen your brand 6-8 times.

02 · LAUNCH

Announce loud

Joint content kit on signing — blog, email, X thread, LinkedIn carousel, TikTok cut, sector-persona amplification.

03 · COMPOUND

Build the flywheel

Partner's users retarget into your owned audience. Their email list becomes a sourcing surface for the next partnership.

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Four modules. One mandate.

Principal-owned. Not subcontracted.

[ PORTRAIT ]
Managing Principal · IR + Corp Dev

Jed Beaumont

Operator-turned-advisor. Runs partnership and M&A mandates end-to-end.

[ PORTRAIT ]
Principal · Corp Dev

[Principal 03]

Strategic partnerships, target sourcing, and go-to-market programs.