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Challenges and Solutions

We Know What Keeps You Up at Night

Data room synthesis bottlenecks
Reviewing 2,000+ pages of financial and operational reports across multiple data rooms slows your evaluation pace significantly. Manually synthesizing this volume leads to delays in identifying critical value creation levers.
How Brightwave Helps:

Upload complete data rooms and receive comprehensive analysis with sentence-level citations in minutes. Brightwave processes your documents 25x faster to surface critical operational insights immediately.

High-volume CIM screening
Processing 50-200 CIMs annually per professional strains your capacity to identify the best buy-and-build targets. Valuable opportunities risk being missed or delayed due to the sheer volume of incoming deal flow.
How Brightwave Helps:

Instantly analyze incoming CIMs against your specific investment criteria to prioritize the right deals. Brightwave helps you screen 15 opportunities in the time it usually takes to review just one.

Extensive IC memo cycles
Multiple review cycles taking 5-7 days consume valuable analyst time that should be spent on strategic thesis validation. Last-minute restructuring due to late DD findings creates unnecessary deal risk close to deadlines.
How Brightwave Helps:

Generate IC-ready memos in hours instead of days, allowing your team to focus on high-level strategy. Brightwave automates the drafting process while linking every claim back to the source document.

Fragmented diligence insights
Combining financial, legal, and commercial reports into a cohesive narrative often leads to information silos during complex buyouts. Ensuring every data point in your investment thesis is accurate and traceable is a manual, error-prone process.
How Brightwave Helps:

Ensure 100% accuracy with granular citations linking every insight directly to source materials in the data room. Brightwave unifies fragmented reports into a coherent, verifiable investment analysis.

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Brightwave Deal Impact

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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
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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
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Phase duration:
Days 1-100
Post-Closing
HIGH IMPACT
Post-Closing Integration Planning
Operating Partners, VP
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Phase duration:
Years 1-5
Ongoing Ownership
HIGH IMPACT
Board Materials Review
Partners, Portfolio Item

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