The Partner Network
GBN is deliberately not a law firm, an audit practice or a print house. It is the layer that sits in front of them — finding the client, scoping the work, preparing the file, and handing over something that is ready to be acted on.
The model
A founder launching a company needs a lawyer, an accountant, a designer, a developer and a printer. What they do not need is to become the project manager coordinating five professionals who have never spoken to each other.
GBN takes that coordination role. We hold the client relationship, define the scope, run the timeline and carry the quality standard. Regulated work is executed by licensed professionals under formal memoranda of understanding. Production work is executed by vetted specialists to a GBN specification.
The client experiences one company. The partner receives a client who has already been qualified, briefed and documented.
A law firm's most expensive hour is the one spent explaining to a first-time founder what a commercial registration is. GBN absorbs that hour. What reaches the partner is a scoped instruction with the background already established.
| Function | Executed by |
|---|---|
| Client acquisition & qualification | GBN |
| Scoping, briefing & documentation | GBN |
| Name strategy & screening | GBN |
| Legal opinions & filings | Partner |
| Trademark clearance & registration | Partner |
| Audit, accounting & tax | Partner |
| Identity, web & digital presence | GBN |
| Print, signage & production | Partner |
| Timeline, quality & accountability | GBN |
Network structure
The licensed core of the network. These partners execute everything GBN is not permitted to execute.
Specialists who turn a GBN specification into a physical result, to a defined brand standard.
Introduced after launch, when the business is genuinely ready to spend on growth rather than on hope.
For prospective partners
Referral relationships usually fail for the same reason: one side sends unqualified enquiries and the other side stops answering. We have designed this one to avoid that.
GBN carries the marketing spend, the enquiry handling and the qualification. Partners receive instructions, not leads. There is no fee to join the network.
Each referral arrives with the activity, structure, ownership and objective already established in writing, and with the client's expectations already set. Less unbillable time per matter.
Company launches are a repeating, forecastable flow rather than sporadic one-off work — which makes capacity planning possible in a way ad-hoc referrals never do.
A business we launch will need contracts, employment advice, audit and eventually restructuring. The introduction is to a client at the very start of their professional-services lifetime, not the end of it.
Referral arrangements are documented in a memorandum of understanding: scope, service levels, fee basis, confidentiality and conflict handling. Nothing is left to be argued about later.
Partners are credited on this website, in client documentation and in the company profile — and are introduced to clients as the licensed professional, not as a subcontractor.
The process
A working session covering your practice, capacity, the client profile you want more of, and the categories where you would rather not receive referrals. Fit matters more than enthusiasm; a partner who receives the wrong work will disengage within a quarter.
A written MoU setting out scope, service levels, response times, fee basis and referral terms, confidentiality, data handling, conflict-of-interest procedure, and how either side exits cleanly.
We align on the file format you want to receive, the information you need in advance, escalation contacts, and how client communications are handled between the two firms so nothing is duplicated or contradicted.
Referrals begin. We review the relationship quarterly against volume, conversion, turnaround and client satisfaction — and we act on what the review says rather than filing it.
Standards
The network is only worth being in if membership means something. Five commitments are non-negotiable.
Now forming
GBN is currently selecting a small founding cohort — one anchor partner in each regulated category — ahead of the platform's public launch.
Founding partners receive category exclusivity for an agreed initial period, input into how the referral file is structured, prominent placement across GBN's client-facing materials, and preferential terms that will not be offered again once the cohort closes.
We would rather have one serious conversation about how the referral file should actually be structured than ten polite ones about synergy. Tell us what would make this worth your time, and we will build the arrangement around it.