Relationships
Customers, suppliers, partners and advisers brought together around a specific commercial purpose. Every introduction depends on relevance and mutual consent.
The member guide · October 2026
The partners you need.
The next step to grow.
A private business community that helps companies find customers, suppliers, advisers and new markets, with a considered introduction and a person accountable for what comes next.
Explore the service proposition here, then try the Deal Room demonstration. Founding dates and specified offers remain subject to confirmation.
47programmes, all open
15featured gateways
8regional chapters
4memberships from $199/month
In this guide
A relationship deserves a next step
Built around what your company needs.
From a small private business to a fund supporting hundreds of portfolio companies, the starting point is the same: understand the need, find a credible fit, secure permission on both sides and coordinate what follows.
Tools & resources
The member programme brings sector guides, templates and approved third-party tools into one place, available across membership levels. The resource collection will expand across all fifteen gateways.
Follow-through
A named owner for each request, a visible next action and a monthly value statement showing the requests, introductions and work that moved.
“We are the conduit of bringing these relationships to the table, whether it be for a small private company to a large hedge fund who has hundreds of companies underneath their umbrella.”
Sam Jakobs · President, Strategic Partner Group
The commercial context
Companies buy through people they trust.
For a company without a large business-development team, a relevant network can widen its reach. A clear brief helps the people on both sides of a buying decision understand the need and act together.
of businesses are SMEs
Small and medium enterprises account for around 90% of businesses and more than half of employment worldwide.
World Bank · SME Finance ↗trust peer insight
Compared with 55% for vendor websites, in a survey of 1,202 US business decision-makers. This measures reported trust.
SurveyMonkey & Reddit · March 2026 ↗global trade in 2025
UNCTAD reports goods and services trade at $35 trillion, up about 7.5% in dollar value from 2024.
UNCTAD · April 2026 ↗projected capital needs
McKinsey’s 2025 central estimate of global data-centre capital requirements through 2030, including power, facilities and equipment.
McKinsey · April 2025 forecast ↗Trust is earned through follow-through.
The 2026 Edelman Trust Barometer reports trust in business at 64%, compared with 53% for government, as a 28-market average among survey respondents. For SPG, the practical implication is clear: keep ownership, consent and outcomes visible.
Technology can make good service more accessible.
The planned service model uses AI to prepare research, intake, suggested matches, reminders and fee calculations. People retain the judgement: they qualify the fit, own the relationship and approve commitments.
A shared brief supports collective buying. Local chapters and advisers help assess capacity and context. Membership starts at $199 a month, with service allowances made explicit.
These sources describe wider markets and survey findings. They do not establish SPG’s results or guarantee a commercial outcome.
From intention to an owned next action
One clear journey. Seven considered steps.
A good introduction starts before the first meeting and continues after it. The member journey gives each request a purpose, a review and a responsible person.
- 01
Join
Choose the membership capacity you need and complete onboarding.
- 02
Profile
Describe your company’s capabilities, markets and commercial objectives.
- 03
Brief
Be specific about the buyer, supplier, partner or market you need.
- 04
Qualify
A sector specialist reviews the fit, authority, timing and supporting evidence.
- 05
Consent
Each party considers the purpose before agreeing to release contact details.
- 06
Introduce
Make the connection with context prepared and expectations understood.
- 07
Follow through
Own the next action, record progress and report it in the monthly statement.
- The human commitment
A person reviews every request.
AI can prepare and suggest. A person makes the sector judgement and owns the relationship.
The monthly value statement brings requests, introductions and next actions into one view, with responsibilities on both sides.
A meeting, a proposal, a signed agreement and collected cash are different outcomes. Each should be recorded accurately, including work paused or closed without a result.
See the qualification and outcome journey47 programmes · All open
Find your field.
Then look beyond it.
Fifteen gateways make the full catalogue easier to navigate. A company can work across several fields, and every membership keeps the whole network open.
Data & energy
Compute, power, storage and sites. Connect government, institutional and enterprise requirements with qualified suppliers, delivery capability and power providers, with funding through an authorised route.
Explore Data & Energy
Health & life sciences
Care facilities, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and regenerative medicine. Specialist review establishes the business scope, rights and relevant clinical, legal and regulatory boundaries.
Explore Healthcare & Care Facilities
Trade & logistics
Producers, shippers and buyers moving into new markets. Verify the goods, the principals and the authority of any intermediary before an introduction progresses.
Explore Shipping & Logistics
Property & places
Construction, development, hospitality and operating partners. Bring a defined requirement, the right decision-makers and a clear service scope, with licensed specialists where required.
Explore Real Estate & ConstructionFifteen routes into the catalogue.
The number beside each gateway is its specialist programme count. Select a gateway to explore the relevant prospectuses.
Data & Energy4
Agriculture & Farming4
Environmental & Water3
Governmental & Public Sector3
NGOs & Social Impact10
Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology3
Healthcare & Care Facilities6
Regenerative Medicine3
Technology: AI, Quantum & Data4
Fundraising & Capital Placement Navigation7
Shipping & Logistics2
Cross-Border Sales & Initiatives4
Real Estate & Construction1
Manufacturing, Textiles & Industrial Materials3
Hospitality & Tourism3
Counts overlap: one programme can sit in several gateways. General programmes apply across the network. Featured placement is not an endorsement, a confirmed mandate or a statement of investment suitability. Any capital route requires the appropriate authorised partner.
Eight chapters. Local knowledge. A global view.
Local capacity and relevant experience should be clear before you ask. Chapters and advisers bring context, qualification and accountability, helping a company consider another route as markets and trade conditions change. All 47 programmes remain available across the network.
8 regional chapters9 senior vice presidents40+ strategic advisers
Regional coverage does not imply a staffed office, available capacity or licensed authority in every market. The team confirms the appropriate people and route for each request.
One network · Four levels of capacity
Choose the room your company needs.
Every level opens all 47 programmes. Higher levels increase team members, approved company profiles, monthly review capacity and concurrent managed work.
| Level | Monthly | Team members | Profiles | Requests/month | Assisted briefs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global Entry | $199 | Up to 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Growth | $499 | Up to 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 concurrent |
| Premier | $1,499 | Up to 10 | 3 | 10 | 2 concurrent |
| Ambassador | $3,999 | Up to 25 | 5 | 20 | 4 concurrent |
Membership is billed monthly and paid through SPG’s secure checkout on Join It, with card payments processed by Stripe. The operations team confirms onboarding and team access after you join. Introductions, sales and other outcomes are not guaranteed.
- Team members
- Separate logins for colleagues, up to your level’s allowance. Credentials are not shared.
- Company profiles
- Approved listings for the company, its group or business units.
- Reviewed requests
- Needs SPG reviews each month, proceeding to consent where a credible fit exists.
- Assisted briefs
- Concurrent managed work with a named owner. This is not a monthly request quota.
Global Entry
One company. A focused first objective.
For a business that understands its capability and the counterpart it needs. Two team members, one approved profile and two reviewed requests a month.
Complete your profile, make each objective specific and review the outcome. Standard onboarding gives you a considered starting point.
Move to Growth when you need more than two requests or one managed brief.
Global Entry detailsGrowth
A working team. One managed priority.
Five team member accounts give the owner, commercial team and specialists their own accounts. One company profile, five requests a month and one concurrent assisted brief keep work focused.
The brief has a named owner and visible next actions, with progress included in your value statement.
Move to Premier for a second managed priority or an additional business-unit profile.
Growth detailsPremier
Multiple teams. Parallel opportunities.
Ten team members, three company profiles and ten requests a month. Two parallel assisted briefs each have their own scope, contact and next decision, with business-unit records kept distinct.
Specialist assignments can be separately scoped, including the proposed active data-centre mandate below.
Move to Ambassador for more than ten colleagues, more than three profiles or regular management review.
Premier detailsAmbassador
A broader account. Planned capacity.
Twenty-five team members, five profiles, twenty requests a month and four concurrent briefs. Regular management review supports a coherent account plan and ownership on both sides.
Major procurement and infrastructure assignments, or complex specialist work, use separately scoped and priced mandates.
A service level, not an appointment: membership does not confer the Sector Ambassador role.
Ambassador detailsChange the level as your needs change.
The membership schedule provides for immediate prorated upgrades and downgrades at renewal, with existing records retained. Existing members should have the team confirm their transition and applicable terms; this website does not automatically change billing or account access.
The proposed founding cohort receives a twelve-month membership price hold, subject to final written confirmation of founding eligibility and terms.
From your first month onward
A useful welcome.
A visible record of value.
The member programme connects onboarding, an approved company profile, clear requests and a regular review of progress. The first objective gives the relationship direction.
Your first-month checklist
- A welcome letter and onboarding checklist, with your level and initial priorities confirmed.
- A complete company profile describing capabilities and markets, with your approval of the directory listing.
- A specific first objective and requests submitted within your plan’s allowance. For Global Entry, the first two requests are reviewed.
- A digital membership card for Apple Wallet and Google Wallet, coloured by level, once issuance is confirmed by operations.
- A monthly value statement covering requests, mutually accepted introductions, assisted work and the next actions for both sides.
All levels include the full programme catalogue, digital membership identity and monthly statement. The operations team confirms card issuance and service activation.
SPG · Value statementFictional example
A Growth member.
Month three.
A sample of what a useful review can show.
- Company profile
- Complete
- Capabilities reviewed
- 2
- Monthly requests used
- 4 of 5
- Introductions accepted by both sides
- 2
- Assisted distributor search
- Proposal stage
The next decision and responsible owner accompany the brief. This is an illustration of the format, not an actual member result or a promised level of activity.
The planned member platform
One profile. Clear permissions. Work that can be followed.
A controlled profile
One company record, with the member choosing which details and approved listings are visible.
A brief captured once
The purpose, status and named owner stay with the request as the next action develops.
A considered introduction
Contact details are released only to named parties after mutual consent.
A membership identity
Apple Wallet and Google Wallet cards are planned to reflect current membership status.
A monthly view of value
Requests, accepted introductions, progress and next decisions come together in a value statement.
Private document access
The intended service keeps documents private by default, with an explicit grant to named people for a stated purpose.
Planned preparation
AI prepares.
- Research, intake and an organised brief.
- Suggested matches with reasons that can be reviewed.
- Reminders and draft agreements.
- Proposed fee calculations for human approval.
Human responsibility
People decide.
- Qualify the fit, evidence and authority.
- Assign a named owner who holds the relationship.
- Approve every introduction and commitment.
- Approve agreements and invoices before they take effect.
What you can explore today. The Deal Room is an interactive demonstration using fictional data. Its changes stay on your device. It is not connected to the live member service and does not provide secure member accounts, issue wallet passes, send introductions, sign agreements or run live transactions. The platform capabilities above describe the planned service model.
Commercial clarity
Agree the fee.
Know what earns it.
Membership pays for the service. A success fee follows only where the agreed commercial engagement provides for it, with terms settled in writing before the introduction.
The standard commercial schedule
- 2% of the first $250,000 collected, then 1%A maximum of $50,000 per contract under the standard schedule.
- One agreed payerThe payer, scope and commercial terms are recorded before introduction.
- Eligible receipts in the first twelve monthsUse cash collected under the contract. Taxes, pass-throughs and refunds are excluded.
- A commercial-receipts basisThe fee is never based on capital raised or total project value. A contract or proposal without collected receipts does not create this calculation basis.
The signed engagement governs eligibility and payment. The calculator illustrates the standard arithmetic only; it is not an invoice or a quote for a bespoke or capital-related mandate.
$1,500On $75,000 collected
$5,000On $250,000 collected
$12,500On $1 million collected
$50,000Cap reached at $4.75 million
Strategic mandates have their own scope.
Large procurement and project work, including power, modular data centres and infrastructure packages, uses bespoke written terms under a named Sector Ambassador. Scope, responsibilities, specialist capacity and fees are agreed separately.
Proposed active data-centre mandate
$2,500 per month in total, including Premier membership, for one live opportunity, with five specialist hours and two operations hours each month. Success fees are separately agreed.
This package and its terms remain subject to final written confirmation. The $2,500 is the total package, not an additional fee on top of Premier.
Membership and mandate detailsTrust has a practical structure
Five gates before an introduction.
Each gate has a responsible person and a decision to make. A request can be returned for clarification, narrowed, paused or closed when the conditions are not met.
Clear need
Scope, decision owner, geography and a realistic next step are understood.
MemberEligible activity
The request fits approved service scope. Funding is routed separately through an authorised partner.
SPG reviewerCredible fit
Capability, authority, timing and supporting evidence are reviewed on both sides.
Sector leadAgreed engagement
Mandate, fees, conflicts and any prior relationships are recorded in writing.
Commercial ownerMutual consent
Both parties approve the introduction and the exact information to be shared.
Introduction owner
Permission is specific to each step.
Relevance cannot be bought.
Membership level, a referral relationship or sponsorship never buys a better match. Relevance and consent determine whether an introduction can proceed.
Capital follows an authorised route.
SPG does not provide investment advice, offer securities or hold client money. Capital raising is handled only by appropriately authorised partners. Investment principal stays outside SPG revenue and custody; SPG receives only its own earned fees under the applicable arrangement.
How the Capital Alliance route worksThe people behind the service
Experience matters.
So does accountability.
Leadership combines relationships, operations, platform development and sector knowledge. A named role gives members a clearer route to the next decision.
Sam Jakobs
Founder and President
Founder of Strategic Partner Group. Leads relationships with institutions, chambers, trade groups, associations, family offices and investor groups across SPG’s regional chapters.
Rick Reese
Founder and Chief Operating Officer
A US Air Force veteran of GPS satellite and F-15 programmes who has built an online travel business over 22 years. Runs onboarding, member records and billing, and leads SPG’s work in economic empowerment, veterans affairs, community development, travel, member organisations, and marketplace ministry and nonprofit fundraising.
Thomas Stray
Founding Partner, Platform and Technology
An investment banker by background, based between Dubai and London for 25 years and now building AI cloud infrastructure. Leads the platform and the growth engine.
Sheikh Momin Ahmed
Founding Partner, Strategic Opportunities
Works across real estate in the UK, Dubai and Saudi Arabia, renewable energy and modular data centres. Leads the data-centre, real-estate and energy gateways.
Sector Ambassadors
Selected, vetted Strategic Advisors lead a sector on six-month appointments. Renewal is based on opportunities progressed, members served and response times. This appointment is distinct from the paid Ambassador membership level.
A wider bench of experience
Nine senior vice presidents and more than forty Strategic Advisors bring expertise and relationships across the programmes and chapters.
Funds · Chambers · Associations
Offer SPG to the companies you back or represent.
A practical support channel for portfolio companies and member organisations, built around their commercial needs and the relationships that can help them grow.
For each company
Each company joins on its own terms. Its needs guide the visibility, tools, content and advisers it can use, and the search for suitable buyers, suppliers, partners and new markets.
For the inviting organisation
A fund, chamber or association can offer this route to its network. Progress reports are shared with the sponsor only with each company’s permission.
“The thought would be that we would be a tool that the funds themselves would offer to their network of clients to help drive traffic and increase the amount of profitability that each company had.”
Sam Jakobs · President
Turn your Contacts to Gold
Reward the connection. Record the attribution.
Members, advisers, chambers, associations and funds can earn for eligible business they introduce, under signed and disclosed terms and only from money SPG has collected.
30%
Membership referral
Of a new member’s monthly payments for the first three months, subject to eligibility, actual collection and the applicable signed terms.
20%
Business referral
Of SPG’s own collected fee on a registered business mandate. An $8,500 collected SPG fee gives an illustrative $1,700 reward.
| New member’s level | Three-month reward |
|---|---|
| Global Entry | $179.10 |
| Growth | $449.10 |
| Premier | $1,349.10 |
| Ambassador | $3,599.10 |
Referral rewards remain subject to final confirmation and signed terms. A submission creates an attribution claim, not an entitlement: consent, the parties and any prior relationship must be checked. No self-referrals or ranking advantage.
A considered opening
Start with real members.
Build from what works.
The proposed founding cohort spans membership levels, sectors and company sizes, so the service can be reviewed with real members before the network widens.
Provisional calendar · Dates and founding terms subject to final confirmation
Opening
Founding membership opens and the first members begin onboarding.
Core journeys
Review the founding cohort’s progress through the core member journeys.
Renewals & outcomes
Review first renewals and early outcomes with members.
Cohort review
Assess the service with the founding cohort, then widen the network.
For founding members
- A proposed twelve-month hold on their membership price.
- A direct say in how the service develops.
- The opportunity to appear in early success stories, only with separate permission.
Founding eligibility, the price hold, dates and terms require final written confirmation.
What comes next
- Funds, chambers and associations introducing SPG to their networks.
- Strategic mandates led by experienced Sector Ambassadors.
- More published guides and tools across all fifteen gateways.
Your first objective starts here
Become part of what comes next.
“I know we’re ready. I know the world is ready for us.”
Sam Jakobs · President, Strategic Partner Group
01
Choose your level
Global Entry, Growth, Premier or Ambassador, each billed monthly. Compare the levels and choose the capacity your company needs.
02
Join online
Register your company and pay on SPG’s secure Join It checkout. Card payments are processed by Stripe.
03
Get started
Your welcome letter, onboarding checklist, team access and digital membership card follow once the operations team confirms your membership.
Strategic Partner Group is a membership business and introduction service. It does not provide investment advice, offer securities or hold client money; capital raising is handled only by authorised partners. Introductions, contracts and outcomes are not guaranteed. Prices are in US dollars before applicable taxes. Founding terms, launch dates, referral rewards and the active data-centre mandate are subject to final confirmation. The signed membership and engagement terms govern the service. The Deal Room is a demonstration, not the connected member platform. All sector scenes and card concepts are illustrative and do not depict SPG-owned assets, named clients, completed transactions or institutional endorsements. Terms and disclaimer · Privacy notice