Representing a buyer

This route is for procurement firms, consultants and other professionals working with a buyer. Your authority may be to research, source, negotiate or commit the buyer. We record the scope rather than assume it.

Buying equipment Representing a buyer Offering equipment or seller access Making an introduction An introduction to SecondWatt Working with multiple equipment opportunities Evaluating technical fit

Protect your client before identifying the opportunity

You can begin with a non-identifying requirement. Under our standard buyer-side process, your firm or the applicable contracting party signs the Buyer Confidentiality and Non-Circumvention Agreement. It then registers each buyer and project before SecondWatt identifies a source.

A separate client is not required to sign SecondWatt's registration documents, or to authorize you to bind it to them. Registration does not make that client a party. A seller may separately require its own NDA or transaction documents.

Confirm the relationship

We ask:

what you are engaged to do;
the form and date of that engagement, and any limits;
the intermediary chain; and
who expects to compensate you.

Supporting evidence may be a redacted engagement, an authenticated confirmation from an appropriate client contact, or another agreed method.

We can arrange confirmation with you involved. A client's confidentiality policy may change the method; it does not turn an unconfirmed representation claim into established authority.

Sharing with your client

Share only the information SecondWatt expressly authorizes for the registered client and project, within the stated recipient and use restrictions. Preserve source restrictions and give the written notice required by the agreement. Registration alone does not authorize disclosure to other intermediaries.

Your role in the transaction

We respect your registered relationship and coordinate the introduction with your actual scope of work. SecondWatt attends the introduction meeting; technical, procurement and legal participants join as needed. Any compensation payable by SecondWatt requires a separate written agreement.

ALSO APPLIES TO YOU

The rules for every relationship

HOW WE ARE PAID

How we are paid

We explain the applicable fee arrangement before an introduction.

Standard seller-paid process. SecondWatt is compensated under a separate source-side agreement. The buyer pays no fee to SecondWatt under the buyer confidentiality agreement.
Separate engagement. A buyer may engage SecondWatt for procurement services under written scope and fee terms. On that route, any compensation SecondWatt receives from the seller side is credited against the buyer's fee, as the engagement terms provide.
Both sides. Compensation from both a source and the buyer on the same transaction requires the buyer's written agreement.
Referrals. Any referral compensation requires its own signed arrangement.
There is no SecondWatt fee for an introductory conversation.
SecondWatt is paid when an acquisition completes, under the signed agreements.
We do not hold deposits or purchase funds.
Payments follow the transaction documents, and independent escrow with written disbursement instructions is our default.

Money and wire controls

Wire instructions are confirmed by a call-back on contact details already on file, never from an email alone.
A late change to account details stops the payment until it is confirmed.
Payments go to the account the transaction documents name, not to an intermediary.
Nothing is released on emailed instructions, side wires or “send it now and we’ll sort the paperwork later.”

WHAT PAUSES AN OPPORTUNITY

What pauses an opportunity

Urgency is never a reason to skip a step. A step is waived only in writing, with the reason recorded. If it can’t be cleared, the opportunity holds until it can.

Authority that can’t be confirmed isn’t established. Authority counts when it is confirmed directly with the named owner or signatory.
A confirmed company is not yet a funded buyer. Inspections, document pulls and taking equipment off the market wait for funding evidence in proportion to the commitment.

We pause when:

An owner or authorized source still isn’t identified once confidentiality is in place.
Several parties offer the same unit at different prices or locations.
Identifiers, nameplate photos or location are withheld indefinitely.
Documents are stale, inconsistent or recycled from another opportunity.
Someone presses for a buyer’s identity, funding evidence or an LOI before showing their own authority.
A deposit is requested outside the agreed escrow, or payment details change late.

We explain what is needed to reconsider it.

YOUR INFORMATION AND RELATIONSHIPS

Your information and relationships

We use confidential submissions to evaluate and progress the relevant requirement or opportunity under the applicable agreements. We do not publish confidential buyer identities, source identities, unit records or commercial terms without permission. Public model research is separate from the private records used for a specific opportunity.

We ask recipients to respect the same limits: no unauthorized forwarding, advertising, use for another buyer or reuse for another project. We document introduced relationships and respect the protections in the applicable agreements.

If your organization has procurement, legal or supplier-onboarding requirements, share them early. We will identify the information and review needed from each side.

Disclosure record. Each release of a serial number, nameplate photo or exact location is recorded with the recipient, the date and the purpose.

Opportunity record. Built as the work happens, before the money moves: who each party is, who represented whom and with what authority, what was reviewed, what was agreed, and where funds were directed.

See the full process on How SecondWatt works

BEFORE WE MEET

Before we meet

Reply to your SecondWatt contact with brief answers to these five questions. If confidentiality limits an answer, describe the restriction so we can agree how to proceed.

Use the five questions. You can describe the client's requirement without naming the client until confidentiality arrangements are in place.

1What is your company or professional practice, and what is your role in this opportunity?
2Are you buying for your own organization, representing a buyer, supplying equipment, introducing a relationship or evaluating technical fit?
3What requirement or equipment opportunity would you like to discuss, and what decision or timing matters next?
4Who else is involved, and what are you currently authorized to do?
5What can you share now, and what needs confidentiality protection or another party's permission first?

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Please do not send bank statements, identity documents, confidential client names or restricted equipment records in an initial inquiry. We will arrange the appropriate next step.

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