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Challenges and Solutions

We Know What Keeps You Up at Night

Synthesizing complex operational data
Your focus on operational value creation requires deep diving into disparate financial, legal, and commercial reports. Manually synthesizing these divergent workstreams often creates significant bottlenecks in your investment process.
How Brightwave Helps:

Brightwave processes your full data room instantly, unifying operational insights with sentence-level citations. This allows your team to validate value creation levers and transformation potential without the manual data entry.

Screening add-on opportunities
Executing your buy-and-build strategy means reviewing high volumes of add-on targets, often leading to CIM overload for your investment team. You risk missing viable targets simply due to human bandwidth constraints.
How Brightwave Helps:

Analyze 15 deals in the time it usually takes to review one. Brightwave allows your team to screen add-on CIMs 25x faster, ensuring you capture every strategic expansion opportunity for your platform investments.

Compressing your IC memo timeline
Multiple review cycles often stretch your IC memo preparation to 5-7 days, consuming valuable analyst hours. Last-minute findings can derail your schedule and force late-night restructuring close to deadlines.
How Brightwave Helps:

Generate IC-ready investment memos in hours. Brightwave handles the heavy lifting of information extraction and structuring, letting your team focus on high-level thesis refinement rather than document processing.

Validating deep dive assumptions
Your intensive due diligence process demands absolute accuracy, yet manual fact-checking across thousands of pages is prone to error. Missing a critical detail in the source data can compromise your investment thesis.
How Brightwave Helps:

Ensure every insight is defensible with granular citations linking back to original source documents. Brightwave gives your investment committee instant confidence that your data is grounded in the underlying materials.

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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
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
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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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