You have a list of targets and no reliable way to tell who opens them. Gatehouse researches the people who can, two levels deep, and puts a source on every line.
It does not tell you which person inside one holds the mandate, which of their live projects overlaps what you are bringing, who at their partner organisations owns that overlap, or which names on your list were already disqualified before you called. So the list gets worked in the dark.
A warm introduction to someone whose firm cannot write the cheque you need, or cannot write it into your structure.
A target that five minutes with their fund terms would have taken off the list before anyone spent a calendar week on it.
A plausible fact, repeated from a source that turned out to be marketing, sitting in material you have already sent.
We ingest it, canonicalise organisation names, merge duplicate people, screen out the dead and the mismatched, and score every row. If you arrive with a thesis and no list, we build the list.
Two levels deep. The subject, the projects their organisation runs that touch your thesis, the partner organisations inside those projects, and the named people at both.
We rank who to approach and say why now, and we carry the disqualifications next to the openings. A principal gets a judgement to act on rather than a longer list of names.
We research every newly discovered person. Every address stays labelled unverified until a human confirms it, and that label travels with the row into your files.
A live master sheet, a searchable portal, one whole-network picture that prints at any size, and per-person briefing PDFs where you want one before a call.
In batches of ten. Every new person, organisation and deal lands in the sheet, the portal and the network picture in the same cycle, so the four deliverables never drift out of step.
One level gets you the target and their title, which you already had. The second level is where the person who actually owns the overlap turns up, and they are usually sitting at a partner organisation rather than at the target itself.
We confirm identity and current role first. Stale employers and same-name collisions are the two most common ways a target list carries a wrong row.
The portfolio companies, deals and mandates their organisation runs that overlap what you are bringing. Each one dated and sourced.
The partner organisations inside those projects, and the people at the target and at the partners who own each overlap area.
Who to approach, in what order, on what basis, and who to drop. Written so a principal can act on it without reading the research underneath.
One row per person, carrying the route, the reasoning, the contact state and the provenance of every field. This is the file your team works from daily.
Tabs for people, organisations and projects, cross-linked. Built to answer the question that arrives at four in the afternoon before a call at five.
One render of the whole network, coloured by category and laid out so capital settles on one side and demand on the other. Prints at any size and reads across a table.
Per-person PDFs where a principal wants the background, the red flags and the opening in hand before a meeting. Priced per person rather than bundled.
We deliver it as your own files, or as a portal we host for you. Both are available.
A door with no source behind it is a guess, and we refuse it. Any map missing a source on a person or a project fails a gate before it can reach your sheet, so an unsourced name has no path into your files. Where we could not confirm something, we say so and leave the field empty rather than filling it with the most likely answer.
A confident summary of what the internet already says has negative value in this work, because it ends up in front of the people you most need to trust you. Every claim gets pushed back to a primary source, and a reviewer whose job is to reject it looks at it before you see it. A claim that reads perfectly well is exactly the kind that fails at that step.
Every target we remove early is a week a principal does not spend. Names come off the list on structure, on geography, on mandate and on timing, and we say which. A contact database will not do this, because it has a view on whether an organisation exists and no view on whether it can act.
Raising from allocators, against a finite and well-defined LP universe, over a raise that runs twelve to twenty-four months.
Where the wrong warm introduction costs a month and there are only so many firms that can lead the round you are running.
Where a named-target thesis has to turn into people with the mandate to sign, at the target and at its partners.
Sourcing co-investment, reached one relationship at a time, where the diligence on who is on the other side is the work.
Gatehouse is not a contact database and it is not a named-account sales list. Where the job is volume, a database does it cheaper and we will tell you so. The work pays off on short lists, where a wrong name costs more than a missing one.
What is a cycle? +Do you make the introductions? +What happens when you cannot confirm something? +What do you need from us to start? +What does it cost? +Who holds the contract? +