AI-native deal originationUK lower mid-market

The origination function, delivered as software.

Mandate Map watches every company in your mandate's universe, knows when one is becoming ready to sell, and makes the approach. Your team takes the meetings.

Live sponsor mandate, in daily use Enriched to your thesis Every action evidenced & revertible

Mandate Map · Pipeline — Project Alloy Replay
Hartwell Fabrications Ltd
Precision metal fabrication · Leeds · est. £4.2m t/o
C N I M O
NDA · 6d waitingNDA · countersigned
Peter Hartwell <peter@hartwellfab.co.uk> Today, 09:41
RE: Introduction — Hartwell Fabrications
Thanks both — good call yesterday. Please find the signed NDA attached; we're happy to proceed on that basis. Could do w/c the 17th for a first meeting if that suits.
◆ Mandate Map AI · Applied automatically 09:41
Marked NDA countersigned for Hartwell Fabrications Ltd.
NDA — sent 6d ago countersigned · reply task set for w/c 17th
“Please find the signed NDA attached; we're happy to proceed on that basis.”
Evidence — Email · Peter Hartwell · today 09:41 · click to open at the highlighted line

A reply arrives. The record updates itself — and shows you the sentence that made it act, with a one-click revert. This is the moment “agentic” claims can't fake. Illustrative reconstruction, details changed.

01What Mandate Map is

Everyone else owns a stage.
Mandate Map owns the loop.

Data platforms

They sell you the map

Ten thousand companies in a list — and all of the work still yours. Coverage is thinnest exactly where bolt-ons live: small UK firms.

CRMs

They keep the record

A faithful account of what happened — with nothing that knows what should happen next, or does it.

Outreach tools

They do the sending

Volume without knowledge. No idea who is ready, no memory of what came back, no record to learn from.

Origination is a loop: watch the whole universe, know who is becoming ready to sell and why, make the approach, and learn from every reply. Mandate Map runs the whole loop — one mandate at a time.

WATCH

Coverage in time, not just breadth

A buy-and-build watches 1,000+ companies to buy five. Mandate Map holds the whole universe and keeps looking after the list is built: websites re-scraped when they change, Companies House filing events, people moves. Companies are trajectories, not rows — the firm that wasn't ready in March gets caught the week its trajectory bends.

KNOW

Enriched to your mandate — not a generic schema

Size is easy. The value is in the detail your thesis actually turns on: does the firm offer the specific service you're consolidating, how many qualified professionals against trainees, whether the work is recurring contracts or one-off projects. Mandate Map reads whatever the mandate cares about from each company's own website and filings — a new thesis is configuration, not a rebuild. On top sit succession and MBO signals — director ages, ownership changes, filing behaviour — scored against the mandate. Never a bare number: every figure ships with its evidence, its assumptions and a confidence flag a partner can pull apart.

Backtested against completed sales — workings on file.
APPROACH

Outreach with judgement, from your own mailbox

The approach drafted in your voice, sequenced with follow-up ladders, and sent from your own address — approve the campaign once and the platform runs it, behind suppression lists and PECR recipient checks. Follow-ups go first: the costliest failure in origination is the thread that goes quiet.

First-contact disclosure on every cold approach. No thread dropped, no list burned.
LEARN

Every reply makes it sharper

Replies land in the record, not just an inbox: milestones tick with the verbatim sentence as evidence, reply tasks schedule themselves for the moment the sender named (“back to you after our year-end”), and every outcome — reply, meeting, rejection — feeds the mandate's scoring. Behavioural data no one can scrape.

The longer a mandate runs, the better it knows its market. That compounds.

02Why you can trust it

An AI teammate you can interrogate.

Partners don't accept bare numbers from analysts. You shouldn't accept them from software. Six properties, enforced in the product:

It lives in the record

Its writes are the process state, on the same surface your team works — not a bot beside the work.

It reads primary sources

Real emails, real filings, real websites — never summaries of summaries.

Every write carries evidence

Verbatim, click-to-highlight, to the word that made it act.

Every write is reversible

One click, a mechanical compensating action. The ledger keeps the before and after.

Attribution is honest

AI actions say so. Rule-based ticks say so. Human assertions say so. No ambiguity about who did what.

Doubt queues, never guesses

Anything ambiguous lands in a human review queue — auditable, reversible — not in the record.

03The roadmap

Working agentic today.
Autonomous where it has earned it.

Everything reversible — reading, scoring, record-keeping — the AI already runs autonomously, ledgered and revertible. A sent email has no revert path, so sends graduate through a ladder of earned autonomy: each level unlocked by measured accuracy, inside a policy envelope you set.

L0 Observe Reads correspondence and filings; keeps the record with evidence on every write. Live
L1 Draft Writes the follow-up or reply in the sender's voice; a human sends it. Live
L2 Approve-to-send Campaigns, sequences and follow-up ladders — approve the campaign and the platform runs it, suppression- and PECR-gated, replies captured back into the record. Live
L3 Scheduled autonomy Post-call follow-ups and high-conviction chasers send themselves on a cadence with a cancel window; newly qualifying companies enrol on scoring — all inside your policy envelope and daily caps. Next
L4 Coordination Meeting booking, pre-meeting briefs, and dispatch of your own NDA templates on your policy. Planned

Graduation is measured, not asserted. The action ledger records accepted-versus-reverted rates per action class, per mandate — autonomy unlocks on those observed rates, and can be dialled back the same way.

1 in 3
completed deals in the sector appears in no conventional data tool — each rebuilt with date and seller
92%
of mapped contacts reachable by verified email or LinkedIn — over a third on both channels
76%
of the sector files no turnover at Companies House — our revenue model estimates it, workings on file
95%
clean AI enrichment at production scale, across the live mandate's universe

Figures from a fully mapped sector, 2026 — workings on file. Forward performance is measured per mandate.

04Early access

Deployed one mandate at a time.
Register interest.

Mandate Map deploys per mandate — white-labelled, with the universe, fields and scoring configured to your thesis. Onboarding is deliberately spaced, so early access runs on a waitlist: register interest and we'll come back to arrange a walkthrough.

  1. Register interest

    Tell us who you are and the mandate you're running — enough to scope the walkthrough.

  2. A walkthrough on your own market

    Not staged data: we take a sample of your mandate's universe and run the loop on it — the coverage, the thesis-specific enrichment, the scoring, and the evidence trail behind every figure.

  3. A deployment of your own

    Per mandate, white-labelled, your fields and stages — live in days, not quarters.

05Pricing

Priced per mandate. Billed to the deal.

One flat fee per acquisition mandate — seats generous, AI included. The cobbled alternative (data licence + deal CRM + sequencer + spreadsheets) runs £65–150k a year, with the worst coverage exactly where bolt-ons live.

Mandate
£12–15k
per year · one mandate
One platform company, one buy-and-build.
  • The full loop: universe watch, scoring, approach, reply capture
  • Sponsor and management teams on one surface
  • Evidence and one-click revert on every AI action
Firm
£24–30k
per year · multi-mandate
Sponsors running several platforms.
  • Everything in Mandate, across the portfolio
  • Additional mandates £6–8k each
  • White-label per deployment — your colours, your clients' screens
Group
£40k+
per year · fund-wide
Fund-wide deployment and roll-out.
  • Every live mandate under one commercial agreement
  • Onboarding for each new platform as it closes
  • Priority roadmap input

Charged to the portfolio company as a deal cost — where it is a fraction of a single transaction's cost load. And because the pipeline belongs to the platform, the database transfers with the company at exit: the next owner inherits a market map, not a cold start.

06Built for confidential work

Deal data is handled like deal data.

UK data storage

Hosted in the London region, permanently. Built for UK PE confidentiality expectations.

Isolated by construction

Row-level security on every table; each deployment white-labelled and scoped to its own organisation.

Your mailbox, your control

Sending happens from your own address, removable in one click. Correspondence enters the record by forward and BCC copies.

Every AI action ledgered

Evidence, confidence, before-and-after — and a one-click revert. Nothing the AI does is unaccountable.

Campaigns approved, sends gated

Approve the campaign once and it runs — suppression-checked and PECR-classified, and the first email to any contact says who is writing and how to opt out. Sent from your own mailbox, removable in one click.

Honest attribution

Every change in the record names its actor — a person, a rule, or Mandate Map AI. No silent edits.

See the loop run on your universe.

Bring a mandate and we'll load the market around it, evidence beside every name. Register interest below, or email us directly.

In daily use on a live sponsor mandate · Deployed per mandate · UK data storage (London)