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Challenges and Solutions

We Know What Keeps You Up at Night

Synthesizing complex operational data
Your team spends days manually extracting insights from financial, legal, and commercial reports, leading to bottlenecked review cycles. This manual synthesis slows down your ability to evaluate operational value creation opportunities effectively.
How Brightwave Helps:

Brightwave processes 2,000+ pages of due diligence instantly, synthesizing cross-functional insights into cohesive reports. You get a unified view of risks and opportunities in minutes, cutting days off your IC memo preparation.

Screening add-on volume efficiently
Evaluating 50-200 CIMs annually per professional creates a backlog, forcing your team to sacrifice depth for speed during initial screening. Valuable buy-and-build targets risk being overlooked due to sheer document bandwidth constraints.
How Brightwave Helps:

Analyze 15 deals in the time it used to take for one, maintaining rigorous standards for every potential acquisition. Brightwave allows your team to dig deep into every CIM immediately without resource fatigue.

Eliminating late-stage diligence surprises
Discovering critical operational risks close to IC deadlines forces rapid, high-stress memo restructuring and delays decision-making. These last-minute pivots drain team resources and jeopardize deal momentum in competitive situations.
How Brightwave Helps:

Identify critical findings instantly upon data room upload, ensuring your investment committee has the full picture early in the process. Brightwave flags risks upfront, preventing the scramble of late-stage memo restructuring.

Validating investment theses with precision
Ensuring every claim in an IC memo is backed by source data is tedious when dealing with fragmented data rooms. Manual fact-checking across thousands of pages introduces human error into your operational investment thesis.
How Brightwave Helps:

Every insight generated is backed by sentence-level citations linking directly to the source document in the data room. Your team can audit the work instantly, ensuring total confidence in the data underlying your control buyouts.

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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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