patterns / operator / board_builder
buyer — the counterpartyTwo or more new directorships inside two years with none dropped. Someone assembling influence or an operating group — read alongside the acquirer patterns, not the sale ones.
Taking on boards costs time, and people spend it where they intend to act. A builder is wiring themselves into companies on purpose.
A counterparty profile: a buyer, a consolidator or an incoming chairman. Worth knowing which side of the table they sit on.
The archetype is computed from the resolved ownership graph — the same person matched across every company they touch — and only for people who actually carry owner-level evidence: a portfolio of two or more, or at least one recorded exit. A single-company majority would carry nothing to read. Where the register is silent about a role, the silence is treated as unknown and never as a no. Like every signal the scout raises: a prompt to look closer, never a verdict.