⎯ INTRODUCING — THE BROKER EFFECT™
The Firm You Choose Changes Everything.
Before a single call is made.
The Broker Effect™ quietly shapes most flagship‑category transactions before a principal ever enters the room. Understanding it — and the structural response Amjet built to eliminate it — is the first step in understanding what Structural Autonomy™ in aircraft advisory actually means.
Amjet Aviation is an independent advisory firm — structured to eliminate brokerage conflicts, with offices in Atlanta and Zürich.
⎯ SECTION 2 — THE BROKER EFFECT
The Broker Effect.
What it is. How it works. Why most principals never see it.
Amjet uses the term The Broker Effect™ to describe something specific: the set of structural forces — inventory positions, reciprocal deal flow, volume incentives, internal trading arrangements, and undisclosed third-party fee arrangements — that shape how most flagship-category aircraft transactions are advised, presented, and closed. Before a principal enters the room. Before the first recommendation is made.
The brokers operating within this system are not acting improperly. The system is simply designed around the interests of brokers — not buyers, and not sellers. Most principals experience The Broker Effect without ever seeing it. They receive advice that sounds authoritative, a process that feels professional, and a result that may have been quietly shaped by interests they were never told about.
Amjet understands these mechanics from the inside. The firm grew through every phase of this industry — aircraft operations, servicing, dealing, and dealer-brokerage. We held inventory. We understood what that exposure meant, what risks it created, and whose interests it quietly served. The decision to exit inventory dealing entirely — made before the 2008 market — was not a policy choice. It was the conclusion of decades of watching how financial risk moves through this industry, and who ultimately carries it when conditions change.
That is not a credential. It is context. Understanding The Broker Effect from the inside is what makes it possible to build a firm that sits entirely outside it.
THE BROKER EFFECT™ — FOUR MECHANICS
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Inventory Ownership
Broker owns or holds positions in aircraft — creating a direct conflict with objective advice before the conversation begins.
⇄ Reciprocal Deal Flow
Brokers trade deals with each other. Your transaction may be shaped by a relationship you never see and were never told about.
◎ Volume-Based Incentives
Compensation structures that reward transactions — not outcomes. The Effect creates urgency where patience would serve the principal better.
⊘ Internal Trading Desks
Some firms transact on both sides of a deal simultaneously. Advisory and trading operating under the same roof — and the same P&L.
