Start Your Own Brokerage

Mentoring, tools, and step-by-step guidance to launch your business with confidence.

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Why Start with Us

Mentoring 

Fabien Tribe is an award-winning mentor accredited by both the MFAA and the FBAA. With a hands-on approach, he'll guide you through every enquiry, scenario, and application, from your first customer conversation right through to settlement.

  • Weekly 1:1 meetings to review your business and deals
  • Hands-on guidance through every application from start to finish
  • Award-winning mentorship accredited by both the MFAA and FBAA

Tech Stack

You have full flexibility around the tech you use. With access to MyCRM from LMG, Quickli, Slack, and a range of integrations, you can build a business that's digital-first and runs the way you want, with no forced platforms or lock-ins.

  • No forced tech stacks — use what works for you
  • Access to industry-leading tools and integrations
  • Tech support from Nick Clunes, an award-winning broker and technology expert

Compliance Support

Starting right means getting compliance right. With access to established credit licence frameworks and proven compliance processes, you'll have the structure and support to meet your obligations with confidence from day one.

  • Credit representative support under an established Australian Credit Licence
  • Compliance templates and frameworks to protect your business
  • Guidance on responsible lending and your regulatory obligations

Community

The Broker Sidekick community is filled with approachable brokers at various stages of growth. Connect, ask questions, and share experiences with people who genuinely get what you're going through, because they've been there too.

  • Join a vibrant broker community to share wins, challenges, and ideas
  • Access exclusive content, live sessions, and actionable tips
  • Ask questions and stay motivated with support from experts and peers

What is Mentoring?

For a new broker joining the industry, both the MFAA and the FBAA require that you be mentored by an accredited mentor. This is one of the most important stages of your career, and getting the right support from day one can make all the difference to how your business starts.

The MFAA typically requires 12 settlements and for defined competency criteria to be met. The FBAA requires a 2-year mentorship period. At Broker Sidekick, we don’t impose a minimum mentorship period. As soon as you meet the requirements, we sign you off, and for most of our mentees, that’s been somewhere around 9 to 12 months.

Your mentor reviews your applications before they’re submitted to a lender, working alongside you in a way that’s similar to an apprenticeship — training, teaching, and guiding you until you’re confident and ready to operate independently. 

From finding the right lender for a deal, to structuring the application and navigating the process, this is where the foundations of your business are built. Getting this stage right sets the tone for everything that follows.

The Start‑Up Journey

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Planning for Success

Planning the start of your business is a crucial first step. We provide a cashflow forecast template and walk you through how to prepare and plan for launch. 

Understanding your cashflow and where your first clients will come from are the top priorities, and getting clear on this early sets your business up to thrive.

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Picking Your Partners

You’ll need to choose the right partners to launch with, an aggregator, a CRM platform, which lenders you want to be accredited with, and crucially, who your mentor will be. 

We’ll help you think through these decisions so you start with the right foundations in place.

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Lift Off

The launch of your brokerage is exciting, and often a little scary.

 But with the right planning and support behind you, it can be one of the most rewarding milestones of your career. Pop the champagne. You’ve earned it.

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Hands-On Mentorship

As enquiries and scenarios start coming in, we hold your hand through every step, from how to respond to a client’s first question, to researching lenders, selecting products, structuring the deal, and getting it across the line. 

You won’t be navigating this alone.

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Meet Your Mentor

Fabien Tribe

Mentor · Broker · Director

Fabien is an award-winning mentor, an active broker, and the founder of The Lending Lab. He is accredited by both the MFAA and FBAA, and brings over 14 years of hands-on industry experience to every mentoring relationship.

What sets Fabien apart is his hands-on approach — not just helping you place deals, but explaining the why behind every decision. His mentoring covers the full application journey: from a client’s initial enquiry, to researching lenders and selecting the right product, all the way through to structuring, submitting, and processing the deal.

Fabien’s focus isn’t just on getting deals done, it’s on building your skills, your confidence, and your independence. The goal is for you to finish mentorship not just qualified, but genuinely ready to run your business.

Mr Mentor Program

Mr Mentor provides a detailed and comprehensive Residential Broker Program across 15 weeks, purpose-built to give new brokers the knowledge and structure they need to succeed.

 

  • 15 sessions across 15 weeks covering key industry topics
  • Covers the MFAA’s key competency criteria for mentorship guidelines
  • Find out more at mrmentor.com.au

Broker Sidekick Team

Nick and Andrew are available to support you as needed throughout your journey.

  • Nick Clunes has deep expertise in complex and commercial lending scenarios
  • Andrew Stevens is available for business coaching and strategic support — find out more on the Level‑Up page

Community

The Broker Sidekick community is filled with approachable brokers at various stages of growth. Whether you're celebrating a first settlement or working through a tricky scenario, there are people here who get it, and want to help.

  • Engage with brokers who are on the same journey or further along
  • Use our internal tech environment to ask questions and connect with peers in real time
  • Building a business doesn't have to be lonely — and with us, it won't be

Pricing

Mentoring

Establishment Fee: $1,500 + GST


Monthly: $450 + GST

Tech Fees

Quickli: $45 + GST per month


Aggregator Tech Fee: Contact us for details

Aggregator Fees

Contact us for details on setup and monthly fees

 

Mr Mentor Program

$3,267 inc. GST (usually $3,630 inc. GST)


Or


$1,100 inc. GST upfront + 12 monthly payments of $230 inc. GST

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