M&A Due Diligence Usually Takes 6 Weeks. We Did It in 72 Hours. 🔥
Private equity deal. Target company had 2,400 documents in the data room. Standard timeline: 6 weeks for legal and financial due diligence. Our timeline: Competing bid closing in 5 days. Either move fast or lose the deal. The documents: Contracts, financials, employment agreements, IP filings, litigation history, customer agreements. All PDFs. All unstructured. Built a due diligence extraction pipeline. Document uploaded to data room. System classifies document type. Extracts key terms based on document category. Flags risk indicators. Populates due diligence checklist automatically. 72 hours later: - All 2,400 documents processed - 340 contracts analyzed for change of control provisions - 47 potential issues flagged - 12 deal-breakers identified One contract had a change of control clause that would have triggered $4.2M in penalties. Found it on page 34 of an amendment. Would have missed it in a standard review timeline. Won the bid. Closed the deal. The speed was the competitive advantage. What opportunity have you lost because analysis took too long?