Inguardi · Partner development
01 Discover 02 Research 03 Qualify 04 Recruit 05 Handoff

We build your partner pipeline.

Fifteen years of channel experience, pointed at your ecosystem. We find the companies worth partnering with, have the first conversation, and hand your team the ones that are real.

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Discover

We build the partner universe from scratch, against the profiles you approved. Not a database export.

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Research

Each company gets enriched by hand: who they sell to, what they build, where they overlap with you, and whether a partnership would actually pay.

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Qualify

Five criteria. All five, or it is not a qualified partner opportunity. You get the companies we ruled out and exactly why.

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Recruit

A person writes the message and has the conversation. No sequences, no automation, no junior team behind the curtain.

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Handoff

The system does the finding. Your partner manager does the relationship. A written brief and a three-way call, then your team owns it.

Your teamowns the partner
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Illustrative partner examples

01 Discover

We build the partner universe against the profiles you approved. Minimum 25 net-new companies every month.

02 Research

Each company enriched by hand: who they sell to, what they build, where they overlap with you.

03 Qualify

ICP alignment, customer overlap, technology fit, market relevance, strategic fit. All five, or it does not count.

04 Recruit

A person writes the message and has the first conversation. Every one of them.

05 Handoff

A written brief and a three-way call. Your partner manager owns the relationship from there.

Built and led partner ecosystems alongside teams at

Palo Alto Networks
Verkada
Case IQ
Bench
Jobscan
Symend

Representative companies from previous partnership roles. Not Inguardi clients.

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Years in B2B SaaS partnerships
Across multiple industries and every partner type
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Partners signed and onboarded
VAR, MSP, ISV, referral, affiliate and GSI
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Partner-led revenue generated
Across the partner programs behind those logos
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More qualified partner meetings booked
Across programs run over the last three years

The real problem

Most partner programs are built by accident, not by design.

Inguardi doesn't hand you a strategy deck. We do the work: research, outreach, and the first conversation with every partner worth having. Your team owns the relationship from there.

Inguardi is the partner development function for B2B SaaS companies with small partnerships teams. We find and qualify net-new partners. Your team owns them once they're real.

No operating system

Partnerships exist as a slide deck, not a repeatable motion.

Nobody owns strategy, recruitment, onboarding, and measurement end to end. Growth depends on whoever has spare time that week.

Recruitment bottleneck

New partner recruitment only happens when someone finds the time.

Between QBRs, enablement, and revenue targets, recruitment becomes occasional instead of repeatable.

Headcount pressure

The default solution is hiring another partner manager.

Most teams don't need more strategy. They need execution capacity, but the only option they consider is permanent headcount.

Execution gap

Strategy without execution is just a document.

Most consultants hand you a plan and walk away. Inguardi runs the work. Not just designed. Done.

We're not the alternative to your partner manager. We're the capacity you can't hire yet.

This is why Inguardi exists. Whether you need the full program built, or the partner development engine running every month.

Partner Development Retainer

One retainer. One focus. Net-new partners.

A dedicated partner development motion running for your team every month, scoped and reported in writing, and run by the person doing the work.

$0/ month USD
Three-month initial term, then month to month with 30 days notice

Month one: partner profiles built and approved, first 25 companies researched, first outreach live within 21 days of kickoff.

  • Ideal Partner Profiles, built and approved by you

    Pressure-tested against your ICP and sales motion before we touch a prospect

  • Minimum 25 net-new companies every month

    Researched and scored against your approved partner profiles. Usually more.

  • Personalized, human-led outreach

    Every message researched and written for that specific partner, never templated

  • Qualified partner opportunities, not leads

    A live conversation, a defined motion, and a written brief before anything reaches your team

  • Disqualification, in writing

    Every month you get the companies we ruled out and exactly why

  • Weekly progress note and a monthly review

    Full visibility into every company, every touchpoint, and every active conversation

Book a working session Free 30 minutes. No commitment required.

Program design, enablement, partner hiring, and ongoing advisory are available on request and scoped separately.

Full program build

When you need more than pipeline.

For teams that need more than a partner development motion. This is the full operating system: strategy, program design, recruitment engine, enablement, and measurement, built with you and run by Inguardi until your team owns it.

Inguardi Foundation Build™

A three to six month engagement, scoped and priced together before anything starts. Every Foundation Build is tailored. No two partner programs are the same, and the work reflects that.

  • Partner strategy and ecosystem architecture

    Growth thesis, partner motion selection, Ideal Partner Profiles, ecosystem mapping, and partner roadmap

  • Partner program design and commercial model

    Program structure, tiers, value proposition, incentive model, and partner agreements

  • Partner recruitment engine

    Sourcing strategy, prospect lists, outreach messaging, qualification process, and pipeline

  • Onboarding and enablement system

    Partner journey, 30/60/90 activation plan, sales toolkit, training, and battlecards

  • Partner operations and internal alignment

    CRM workflows, attribution, lead routing, internal SLAs, and stakeholder alignment

  • Measurement and scaling framework

    Partner KPIs, health scoring, revenue attribution, and a roadmap for what comes next

Scope a Foundation Build Free 30 minutes. Scope and fit discussed together.
Torrie Jung, founder of Inguardi

The person behind it

Torrie Jung

Founder, Inguardi

Torrie has spent 15+ years building and scaling partner ecosystems across B2B SaaS, not advising on them from the sidelines. He has held global ownership of partner programs multiple times over, specializing in net-new partner recruitment and compressing time to live for new partnerships. With 1,000+ partners signed and onboarded across VAR, MSP, ISV, GSI, referral, and affiliate models, he knows what a high-performing recruitment motion actually looks like, and how to build one fast.

Partner prospecting is the work that always loses. First thing dropped in a busy week, last thing anyone gets to. That's the job we do.

Stop leaving partner revenue on the table.

Whether you need the full program built from zero or the partner development engine running every month, Inguardi does the work and hands your team the partners worth having.

Book a working session Free 30 minutes. No commitment required.