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Sell forensics you would otherwise have to hire an examiner to deliver

Resell SleuthX digital forensics and managed security at a flat discount off list. One rate covers seats, devices and AI usage, and you keep the customer.

Who this program is built for

This is built for a firm that already sells security or IT services to small and mid-sized organizations, already holds the customer relationship, and wants to put digital forensics and managed security in front of that customer without hiring a credentialed examiner to do it.

The customer you are thinking of is the one who calls you after a business email compromise, or after an employee leaves with a laptop, or after their insurer asks for a risk analysis they cannot produce. Today that call ends with a referral out of your practice. As an authorized reseller it ends inside it.

We are recruiting our first authorized resellers. There is no roster on this page because there is nothing yet to put on it, and a logo wall assembled from firms that have signed nothing would be telling you something untrue in pictures. What we offer instead is a written program with its rules stated before you apply.

If you arrived here as a customer rather than as a firm, the page about buying through an authorized reseller answers the questions this one does not: whose contract you are on, who you call first, and what stays ours.

How the commercial model works

An authorized reseller buys at a single discount off our published list price. That one rate covers seats, devices and AI usage alike, so there is no second schedule to reconcile and no argument about which line item a discount attaches to.

The rate is set once, at the start of the relationship, and recorded in the signed agreement. We agree it with each firm rather than assigning it from a table, which is why it is not printed here. You get your number in the first conversation, not at the end of a qualification process.

There are no program levels. One authorized reseller holds one rate, and that rate does not move with volume unless both sides agree in writing to move it. A tier is only real when something measurable changes at its boundary, and a ladder nobody is standing on is furniture.

Everything above is the structure. The one thing missing is the figure, and it is missing because we set it per relationship rather than by table. We would rather name the withholding than describe our margins with an adjective.

What this means for you

What you sell, and what stays ours

This is a resale program. It is not white label and it is not OEM. The product stays branded SleuthX and your customer knows the tool is ours. What belongs to you is the relationship: you sell it, you own the account, you set your own price to your customer, and you carry the first conversation when something goes wrong.

Behind the software is a credentialed examiner who reviews findings before they leave the practice, which is the part your customer cannot buy from a scanner and the part you would otherwise have to build a hiring plan around.

We sell direct too, and we will tell you when that collides

We sell directly as well as through authorized resellers. If we are already engaged with an account when you bring it to us, we will tell you at that point rather than afterwards. That commitment costs us the easy version of this page and it is the question experienced firms ask first, so it belongs above the form rather than in a clause someone finds at signature.

Deal registration proper, with a portal, a status and a clock, is not built. It is the next thing this program needs and we would rather say so than publish a mechanism that does not exist yet.

This is not the private investigator referral network

SleuthX runs two different outside relationships and this page describes one of them. Field work that requires licensure, such as surveillance or a background investigation, is referred out to licensed private investigators who perform it under their own licenses. SleuthX is not a private investigator agency and does not hold that licensure.

A cybersecurity reseller relationship runs the other way. You buy our forensics and managed security at a discount and sell it to your own customers. Two relationships, two words, kept separate on purpose.

How to apply

  1. Send the application. Tell us what your firm does, who your customers are, and why forensics belongs in front of them. It is a short form and the qualification is on this page rather than inside it.
  2. We reply within two business days. A person reads it. If we are not the right fit we will say so in that reply rather than leaving the application open.
  3. One conversation about economics and scope. You get your discount in that call, along with what we do and do not cover, and what we would need from you on a live incident.
  4. Agreement, then access. The rate goes in writing. After that you are an authorized reseller and can quote it.

Questions cybersecurity resellers ask first

What discount does an authorized reseller buy at?
One discount off our published list price, agreed with you at the start of the relationship and recorded in the signed agreement. We do not publish the figure, because we agree it with each firm rather than assigning it from a table, and we will give you your number in the first conversation rather than at the end of a qualification process. What we can tell you before that conversation is the shape: a single rate, applied to every billable axis, that does not change unless both sides agree in writing to change it.
Are there program levels?
No. There is no silver, gold or platinum, and there is no bookings threshold to clear. One authorized reseller holds one rate. That means there is no tier to lose in a quiet quarter, and no volume commitment to sign in order to reach a better number. It also means the rate is a negotiation rather than a lookup, which is the honest trade.
Does SleuthX sell directly to the customers I bring?
We sell directly as well as through authorized resellers, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What we commit to is disclosure at the moment it matters: if we are already engaged with an account when you bring it to us, we tell you at that point rather than after you have spent the quarter on it. A deal registration portal with a clock on it is not built yet. We would rather say that than describe a mechanism that does not exist.
Is this a white label program?
No. This is resale. The product stays branded SleuthX, your customer knows the tool is ours, and you sell, own and support the relationship around it. White label and OEM are different arrangements with different economics and different support obligations, and buyers routinely conflate all three, so we name which one this is rather than leaving it to be inferred.
How is this different from the private investigator referral network?
They run in opposite directions. Field work that requires licensure, such as surveillance or a background investigation, is referred out from SleuthX to licensed private investigators who perform it under their own licenses. That is a referral. A cybersecurity reseller relationship runs the other way: you buy our software and managed service at a discount and sell it to your own customers. The two use different words on purpose, because overloading one word for both is how a firm ends up reading the wrong obligation into its agreement.
What does SleuthX want from a cybersecurity reseller?
An existing customer relationship you already service, and a reason to add digital forensics and managed security to what you can put in front of it. We would rather work with a small number of firms whose customers actually need this than sign a long list of firms that took a discount and never used it. That is why the bar on this page is written down before the form rather than discovered on a call afterwards.
Quinnlan Varcoe, Founder & CEO
Quinnlan Varcoe
GIAC-certified · Founder & CEO

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Apply to the cybersecurity reseller program

A short application, read by a person, answered within two business days.

Free, confidential · NDA-protected · no obligation.

  1. 1. Book a 30-minute call — we scope your situation, no charge.
  2. 2. You get a written scope — deliverables, timeline, and price — before any work begins.
  3. 3. Approve it and we start; most engagements begin within 48 hours.