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Challenges and Solutions

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Streamlining your IC memo cycles
Your team typically spends 5-7 days synthesizing financial, legal, and commercial reports into a cohesive narrative. This manual friction often leads to multiple review cycles and delays in decision-making.
How Brightwave Helps:

Brightwave processes full data rooms instantly, drafting IC-ready memos with sentence-level citations. You can finalize comprehensive investment theses in hours, keeping your deal timeline moving efficiently.

Scaling your diligence capacity
With professionals reviewing 50-200 CIMs annually, maintaining deep operational analysis on every potential control buyout is difficult. Valuable buy-and-build opportunities can be missed when volume outpaces resource capacity.
How Brightwave Helps:

Process 15 deals in the time it usually takes to review one using 25x faster document analysis. Your team can screen more consumer and media assets deeply without increasing headcount or hours.

Mitigating late-stage diligence risks
Discovering critical findings late in the review process often forces rapid, stressful memo restructuring close to deadlines. These last-minute scrambles threaten the quality of your operational value creation strategy.
How Brightwave Helps:

Upload new DD documents and immediately receive synthesized analysis integrated with your existing data. You catch red flags early and adapt your thesis instantly, avoiding last-minute restructuring panic.

Unifying your value creation insights
Synthesizing disparate insights across financial models and commercial reports to define portfolio transformation strategies is complex. Connecting operational metrics to exit optimization goals manually is prone to oversight.
How Brightwave Helps:

Our AI connects insights across thousands of pages, linking financial data directly to commercial realities with granular citations. You gain a holistic view of operational transformation potential instantly.

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Brightwave Deal Impact

Click on any activity to see detailed time savings and how Brightwave accelerates your deal process.
Critical Impact (Significant Time Savings)
High Impact (Moderate Time Savings)
01
Phase duration:
Weeks 1-4
Sourcing & Initial Review
CRITICAL IMPACT
CIM Analysis
Associates, Analysts
HIGH IMPACT
Market Research
Associates, Senior Associates
HIGH IMPACT
Management Presentation Prep
Associates, VPs
02
Phase duration:
Weeks 7-14
Due Diligence
CRITICAL IMPACT
Data Room Review
Associates, Analysts
CRITICAL IMPACT
Customer/Vendor Contract Analysis
Associates, Legal Team
HIGH IMPACT
Reference Call Summaries
Associates, Senior Associates
HIGH IMPACT
DD Report Synthesis
VPs, Senior Associates
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Phase duration:
Weeks 10-16
Financing & Documentation
HIGH IMPACT
Lender Presentation Materials
Associates, VPs
CRITICAL IMPACT
IC Memo Drafting
VPs, Principal
CRITICAL IMPACT
Legal Document Review
VPs, Legal Team
04
Phase duration:
Days 1-100
Post-Closing
HIGH IMPACT
Post-Closing Integration Planning
Operating Partners, VP
05
Phase duration:
Years 1-5
Ongoing Ownership
HIGH IMPACT
Board Materials Review
Partners, Portfolio Item

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