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Decide what exclusivity you can live with

You’re the sales / partnerships lead. Your team is in the room. Printed Aug 6, 2026.

A large distribution promise can create value and concentration risk at the same time.

Scale, access, customer safeguards, and direct-market freedom can pull in directions that cannot all be optimized.

Who you’d be doing this for

“I need the service team to move fast, but I can’t lose visibility into our evidence.”

Wanyama Muhire · VP of Compliance

Leads a regional healthcare software provider that relies on a managed service partner for compliance operations.

What is at stake

The draft comes with a 14-day deadline, a two-year minimum, and a list of named accounts that overlaps 22 you already sell to. You have to weigh access to that channel against terms you cannot easily unwind.

Why it isn’t already fixed

Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.

  • channel scale vs. direct-account protection
  • signature speed vs. verified forecast
  • managed access vs. customer trust
  • exclusivity value vs. future flexibility

Why Vanta

At Vanta, this can matter when trusted distribution expands access to regulated buyers while changing how customer relationships are protected.

Written with these in mind

Enterprise negotiatorChannel strategistRisk-aware commercial builder

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This is the setup. The work is inside.

Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.