pitch.consultant.deals
You already close. You just call it consulting.
A discreet deal desk for independent consultants — briefed, priced deal work in the domain you know, claimed between engagements, building a settled record that no client NDA can hold.
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An independent consultant wins every engagement by running what is — in every respect except the job title — a complex B2B sales cycle: discovery, framing the problem, the proposal, the negotiation. Then the engagement ends, and the calendar gap opens, and every way to fill it is wrong. Business development for the practice is slow, unpaid, and competes with billable work. Subcontracting to a bigger firm puts your judgment under someone else's name. A sales job is an identity you never wanted. And the informal version — "can you join the call and help us land this?" — arrives unscoped, unpriced, and settled in goodwill.
Underneath all of it sits the consultant's paradox: the moment you look available, your rate starts falling. A premium practice cannot advertise an empty month. So the gap stays quiet, the selling stays free, and the track record — the closes your expertise actually produced — stays locked in clients' CRMs behind clients' NDAs, unprovable to the next buyer of your judgment.
consultant.deals is a door onto one marketplace: a feed of Deal Gigs, where each Gig is one Role's run at one Deal, carrying the full Brief. The Brief means the account, the value, the stage history, discovered Signals, the negotiation floor, and the complete activity history. The price tag is flat, fixed at post time, and visible before you claim. Never a cold handoff: no Brief, no Gig — an invariant of the system, not a service level. It holds because the Seller — the business whose deal it is, who posts the Deal and sets its Mandate — can afford the exposure: the floor you see in the Brief is enforced by the system itself, so showing it to you costs the Seller nothing.
| Role | Span | Pricing |
|---|---|---|
| Setter | sourced → meeting held | flat fee, paid at fulfillment |
| Closer | meeting → won or lost | commission, paid at closed-won |
| Nurturer | stalled deal → revived or confirmed dead | flat fee, paid at fulfillment |
Two of those rungs are consultant-shaped on arrival. The Closer Role on an expertise-heavy deal is the work you already do — a buyer committee that needs to trust an expert, not survive a pitch. And the Nurturer Role is a diagnosis engagement in miniature: a stalled Deal — a gone-dark Signal — worked back to revived or honestly confirmed dead, with the fee paid at fulfillment either way. Paid for the judgment, not the verdict.
One boundary, stated plainly so nobody arrives for the wrong reason: this desk does not sell your consulting practice. The Gigs are Roles on other Sellers' Deals in domains you know — deal work, priced as deal work. If what you want is demand for your own services, this is not that door.
Leagues, not listings: SMB → midmarket → enterprise, assigned by buying motion rather than raw deal size. No bidding, no race to the bottom. Eligibility is earned through your Register — win rate and gross closed value, accrued only from settled outcomes. And the desk is candid about what that means on day one: nothing imports. It cannot verify a decade of NDA'd client work, and it refuses to pretend it can — your first settled outcome is your first entry, and the record is provable precisely because it was earned here.
Discretion is architecture, not policy: no public directory, no broadcast of availability. Your profile is visible to a Seller only when you claim their deal — the market never learns your calendar had a gap.
You work here as an independent contractor — for most consultants that is already the operating posture, but the desk is plain about your side of the risk anyway: clearing your own client agreements — non-competes, conflict-of-interest terms, exclusivity clauses — is yours to do before you claim, not the desk's to waive.
Domain fit and conflict controls ride the matching mechanic: the domains you declare, the industries you won't touch, and the named accounts you can't — current clients first among them — are honored at match time, so a Gig never puts you across the table from a client of your own practice. This posts when the first cohort is matched; stated here rather than implied.
Every Deal lives on the rail at api.forsale, and the rail holds sole
authority. The seam runs the same way every time: you work the Role,
propose an outcome, the Deal's Gate checks floor, cap, and legality, and
then commits — or issues a refusal that keeps the Gig claimed. The
authority is the Gate, never the maker of the proposal, human or agent.
That inversion is what lets a Seller hand a consultant real room to work. Everything you do on a Deal — intermediate stage advances included — only proposes; the Gate commits or refuses it against the Seller's declared Mandate: negotiation floor, commission cap, transition legality. You bring the judgment; the guardrails are structural; nobody supervises you to keep the promises honest. And it cuts both ways on purpose: the terms you saw when you claimed are the terms that settle — no mid-deal renegotiation, no retroactive splits, no goodwill accounting.
The rail is live and documented in the open: quickstart, concepts (Deal · Stage · Mandate · Role · Gig · Settlement), API reference, SDK, MCP, and a demo environment where the propose → gate → commit seam can be exercised directly.
The shape of the economics is fixed by design: price tags are flat and fixed at post time, never attribution-split with whoever worked the deal earlier; fee-priced Gigs settle at fulfillment; commission Gigs settle at closed-won. Who pays the platform — and how much — is the rate card's single line:
The figures publish when the rate card is ratified through the stack#1 gate; until then they are pending, matching the family's pricing pages. As drafted: contractors keep 100% of commission — the platform is paid by the Seller, never out of the contractor cut; the platform fee is 5% seller-side, on closed value only — nothing on effort; and the platform defaults where the Mandate leaves values unset are a $250 setter fee, a $150 nurturer fee, and 10% commission, within bounds.
The Seller sets price tags in their Mandate within platform bounds, the platform supplies the defaults, and settlement writes the payout ledger from outcomes. Settlement runs on flow of funds through the rail: the same movement of money that pays a Gig is what writes the Register, which is why the record is verified rather than self-reported. A Nurturer who confirms a deal dead still collects the fee — paid for the work, not the outcome — and a commission Gig on a lost deal settles at zero. The desk publishes no earnings examples and no income claims; the mechanics are the offer.
The substrate is api.forsale — the demand rail; sole authority over every
Deal.
| Actor | Brings | Door |
|---|---|---|
| developer Seller | offers via API | api.forsale |
| individual closer or setter | labor | closers.deals · closers.sale |
| independent consultant | domain expertise as labor | consultant.deals |
| firm / agency | a bench | closers.agency |
| referrer | Sellers, closers, or deal flow | referrals.sale · creators.sale |
| business Seller | offers via concierge | queued |
A brand here is one ICP and one motion — nothing more. This door exists for the same reason closers.deals and closers.sale are two doors and not one: the tribes don't overlap. A career AE self-identifies as a closer and is recruited in sales communities; an independent consultant self-identifies as an expert, is recruited through practice networks and industry communities, and would never walk through a domain with "closers" on the front of it — even though, on this desk, the work meets the same Brief and settles through the same Gate. Different identity, different channel, different door; identical desk. Wrong-door traffic cross-routes: a quota-carrier who lands here finds closers.deals in one click, and a boutique consultancy that wants to enroll a whole bench is a different actor with its own door — closers.agency, the Firm envelope.
The rail is live: docs, demo environment, and the API-key onboarding funnel for developer Sellers — the demand side this door's supply would work.
The desk's sibling B2B supply door is live: closers.deals runs a request-access funnel today — durably stored, profile-aware, honest pre-launch on the page.
The sibling B2C high-ticket door is live: closers.sale runs its own request-access funnel, cross-linked so wrong-door traffic self-routes instead of bouncing.
This door itself is pre-launch, and this deck says so plainly: the consultant.deals front door — its own request-access funnel, its own consultant-fitted survey — is not yet live. The zone is active and the door is queued in the sales-doors wave. Until it ships, consultants reach the same desk through the live closers.deals funnel, noting the practice; the survey is matched by profile, not by which door it came through.
The claim that matters — real Briefs in real domains claimed by real consultants, settled through the Gate in production — posts when it has happened, with the settlement in evidence. Until then, access opens in cohorts matched to real deals, and the amber here is deliberate: this desk states its liquidity plainly rather than implying deal flow that doesn't exist yet. The first Briefs arrive through the rail's demand doors — developer Sellers on the live API, business Sellers brought on by concierge — and expertise-heavy Briefs are matched to the consultant cohort first, because those are the deals this tribe exists to close.
The desk is already real behind its live doors — closers.deals and api.forsale serve today; this door opens onto the same Gate.
If this was forwarded to you: consultant.deals is a deal desk for independent consultants who already close complex deals for a living and have never been paid for it as deal work — every Deal briefed before you claim it, every price fixed before you commit, every settled outcome building a verified record that no client NDA can hold. There are no income promises on this desk, anywhere; the mechanics above are the whole pitch, and each claim carries its own state and evidence — including the candid one: this door's own front page isn't live yet, and the desk would rather tell you that than imply otherwise. If the tribe is yours, the live sibling door at closers.deals takes the same private survey today.