ABOUT MANDATE HOUSE
Small on purpose.
Mandate House runs allocator development for hedge fund managers who have a credible strategy, real access, and nobody whose actual job it is to work it.
The desk is deliberately small, takes a limited number of mandates, and puts nothing in front of an allocator that the manager has not approved.
FOUNDER-LED
Two operators, not an account team.
In 2012 I started a media fund that licensed distribution rights to two major Hollywood studios. That was the first lesson in getting a large institution to take a smaller counterparty seriously, and my work has stayed on that side of the table since: real estate investors, VC and PE investors for a venture studio, investment bankers, private market deals as a director of capital markets, and now hedge fund allocators.
Underneath, the work has not changed in a decade. Build the list, verify who actually decides, write something a senior person will answer, then keep the relationship alive long after the first reply. Do that long enough and you learn what a senior investor's inbox looks like at nine in the morning, what earns a reply from someone who owes you nothing, and how fast a careless message costs you a relationship you needed.
Which is why volume methods do not come with me. A fund with several hundred relevant allocators cannot be worked like a market with two hundred thousand buyers, and the cost of getting it wrong is your reputation, not a bounced email. There are two of us. That is a deliberate ceiling, and it is why targeting, messaging and every judgment call stay with me rather than an account manager. The person who writes the message is the person who reads the reply.
HOW THE DESK OPERATES
What that means in practice.
You approve every message
Positioning, materials, message frameworks and permitted audiences are signed off by the manager before anything is sent.
Identity verified before contact
Every senior contact is confirmed against at least two independent signals. A matching name is never enough.
Coverage, not duplication
Where more than one person at an allocator firm is relevant, the approach is coordinated so it reads as coverage rather than repetition.
The follow-up is the job
Materials go out after someone asks for them, and relationships are worked on a schedule instead of in bursts.
Numbers with denominators
Reporting states what was sent, what came back, and the base each figure is measured against.
The manager remains responsible for strategy, performance, investment discussion, diligence, suitability, offering compliance, negotiations, subscriptions and investor decisions.
LIMITED MANDATES
A limited number of mandates.
Mandate House accepts a limited number of mandates so account selection, communication review, exceptions, follow-up and reporting remain controlled.
The standard engagement covers one manager, primary strategy or vehicle through an initial six-month, fixed-fee mandate with a 90-day operating review.
Find out whether this is worth doing at all.
If the strategy is credible, the materials are ready and internal coverage remains thin, the Pipeline Review will assess whether Mandate House is the right operating fit.