tentt · ORIGINATION MEMO
Prepared 29 April 2026
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Prepared for ProGenius

Your origination memo.

Strategy memos like this one from advisory firms typically run $10-25K. We produce them for free, as the first day of an engagement.

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Confidential origination memo
Prepared 29 April 2026
Tentt × ProGenius
Prepared for
ProGenius

Business development program scoped for ProGenius.

Inside: a one-paragraph read of your mandate, 8 real companies we'd put in front of you this month, the signals we'd track for you, and how we'd run it.

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For David Walker-Dobson, Tentt Founder
4-minute overview · David Walker-Dobson

Why we built this for ProGenius, and what running it would look like.

01 What we understand about your mandate
You publish one long-form business, technology, or strategy story every Sunday, sourced from primary documents and decoded for founders and operators. Your files cover creator economy mechanics, founder profiles, corporate strategy, and business history, read in ten minutes, built for people who run companies and need the decision, not the summary. Recent files include MrBeast, Sam Altman, LEGO's turnaround, and Stripe's developer-first payments strategy.
ProGenius website
progenius.io · 29 April 2026
02 Companies we'd put in front of you this month
48 companies in your universe. 8 we'd open conversations with first. ↓ Download all 40 as CSV
Elle
New York · 500-1000M revenue
Legacy fashion editorial, digital pivot
Hearst-owned, 75-year archive, navigating creator economy shift. Direct adjacency to your MrBeast creator mechanics file.
On3
Tennessee · 10-50M revenue
NIL sports media, founder-operated
College sports vertical, NIL monetization model, founder-led since 2021. Squarely inside your creator economy and business model coverage.
Popsugar
California · 1-10M revenue
Lifestyle vertical, commerce integration
Women's lifestyle publisher, affiliate commerce model, owned by Group Nine. Direct adjacency to your MrBeast monetization playbook.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Pennsylvania · 500-1000M revenue
Regional metro, nonprofit transition
Third-largest metro daily, nonprofit since 2016, subscription-first model. Business model pivot story inside your corporate strategy coverage.
Wsb-Tv
Georgia · 10-50M revenue
Local broadcast, Cox-owned station
Atlanta ABC affiliate, Cox Media Group, navigating streaming shift. Media business model transition inside your strategy file scope.
madison.com
Wisconsin · 50-100M revenue
Regional news, Lee Enterprises portfolio
Wisconsin State Journal parent, Lee Enterprises chain, subscription pivot. Corporate strategy angle inside your business history coverage.
Manscaped
California · 10-50M revenue
DTC men's grooming, founder-operated
Founder-led since 2016, DTC to retail expansion, YouTube-native brand. Direct adjacency to your MrBeast and creator economy files.
Palm Beach Post
Florida · 10-50M revenue
Regional metro, Gannett portfolio
Florida metro daily, Gannett-owned, subscription and digital advertising model. Business model transition inside your corporate strategy scope.
03 Signals we'd track for you

Six categories. Forward-looking. Tracked across your universe.

None of these are claims we've already detected anything. They're the patterns we'd watch for, daily, on the universe of companies we'd build for you.

Leadership changes
New senior hires (CEO, CFO, Chair) commonly precede transaction processes by 6 to 12 months.
Watch: Companies House officer history, LinkedIn role changes, press releases.
Hiring pattern changes
Rapid senior team builds and sustained downsizing both correlate with capital events. The shape of the hiring curve is often more predictive than any single hire.
Watch: LinkedIn employee growth, posted job listings, departure patterns.
Capital structure events
Debt refinancings, charges register filings, and equity rounds signal upcoming inflection points and often precede a process by 9 to 14 months.
Watch: Companies House charges register, public funding announcements.
Founder activity signals
Public framing about "next chapter", succession, or sustained retirement language predicts owner-led exits more reliably than any structural signal.
Watch: LinkedIn posting patterns, trade press interviews, third-party adviser engagement.
Capacity and geographic moves
Site expansions, planning applications, and new regional offices commonly precede growth financing or sale processes.
Watch: planning applications, Land Registry filings, press announcements.
Sector activity
Peer transactions reset valuations and unlock founder thinking. Tracking the bracket matters more than tracking any single account.
Watch: trade press deal coverage, sponsor exit announcements, public filings.
04 Sample outreach

Two emails. Real drafts, in your voice, ready to send.

Sent under your name, never as Tentt. Day 0 is the cold open with named-portco proof. Day +4 is the threaded follow-up with market data.

05 White-labelled infrastructure

Every email comes from ProGenius. Tentt is invisible.

Each domain is a brand-adjacent variant of progenius.io, registered in your name. Each inbox is provisioned under whoever you want owning the outbound, typically your BD lead or origination team. Recipients see ProGenius in the From line, signature, and reply-to. We run the fleet quietly behind it.

100% white-label · registered to you 10+ domains · 20+ inboxes · 2 per domain 500/day sustainably · 2-3 week warmup ramp
joinprogenius.com
→ ProGenius
{name}@joinprogenius.com
{name}@joinprogenius.com
goprogenius.com
→ ProGenius
{name}@goprogenius.com
{name}@goprogenius.com
doprogenius.com
→ ProGenius
{name}@doprogenius.com
{name}@doprogenius.com
hiprogenius.com
→ ProGenius
{name}@hiprogenius.com
{name}@hiprogenius.com
progeniusco.com
→ ProGenius
{name}@progeniusco.com
{name}@progeniusco.com
myprogenius.com
→ ProGenius
{name}@myprogenius.com
{name}@myprogenius.com
progeniusworks.com
→ ProGenius
{name}@progeniusworks.com
{name}@progeniusworks.com
progeniushub.com
→ ProGenius
{name}@progeniushub.com
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progeniusteam.com
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useprogenius.com
→ ProGenius
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{name}@useprogenius.com

{name} is whoever you want sending, typically your BD lead or origination team. You tell us the names; we provision the inboxes. Domains run availability + trademark checks at procurement.

06 How we'd run it

Three concrete ways we'd build pipeline for ProGenius.

Playbook 01 · Add-ons
Adjacencies for MrBeast

Map creator economy platforms, production studios, and consumer brand operators within the attention-engineering playbook MrBeast pioneered. Direct founder outreach, framed as case-study conversation for your next long-form file.

Playbook 02 · Reactivation
Mandate-fit dormant pass

Run your existing CRM against your deployed-shape filter. Surface dormant prospects whose situation has changed: new owner, new financing event, new senior hire. Single wave, founder-direct, framed as a check-in.

Playbook 03 · Sector deep-dive
Founder-led technology and consumer businesses in the UK and US

Saturate your strongest editorial verticals with founder-direct outreach across the entire deployed-shape universe. Eight to ten weeks of waves, prioritised by the strength of each company's fit signals.

07 What we run for you

Deal origination, run end-to-end, under your brand.

Tentt runs deal origination as a service for private equity, M&A advisors, investment banks, and lenders. We build the target list, write the outreach in your voice, and send cold-email campaigns from authenticated infrastructure in your firm's name. Completely whitelabeled. Recipients see your firm; replies route to your CRM; we never appear in the conversation.

08 Close

The data is yours. The conversation is the next step.

The full list of 40 additional companies is available to download above. When you've had a chance to look through it, book a 30-minute briefing and we'll walk through how we'd run a campaign against the priority cohort.

David Walker-Dobson · david@tentt.com · tentt.com
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