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Challenges and Solutions

We Know What Keeps You Up at Night

Synthesizing complex operational data
Your team faces the daunting task of synthesizing financial, legal, and operational reports into a coherent thesis. This manual integration often leads to information bottlenecks just days before critical deadlines.
How Brightwave Helps:

Brightwave connects insights across thousands of pages, instantly highlighting operational risks and value drivers so you can focus on strategy rather than data extraction.

Scaling your buy-and-build pipeline
With hundreds of CIMs flooding your pipeline annually, filtering for the right family-owned or add-on opportunities consumes valuable associate time that could be spent on execution.
How Brightwave Helps:

Upload CIMs and financial models to receive comprehensive investment analysis in minutes, allowing you to screen 15x more deals and identify targets without adding headcount.

Reducing manual IC memo drafting time
The iterative process of drafting and restructuring IC memos often takes 5-7 days, delaying your ability to move quickly on competitive transactions or time-sensitive buyouts.
How Brightwave Helps:

Generate professional, citation-backed IC memos in hours. Brightwave handles the heavy lifting of drafting and formatting, letting your team focus on thesis refinement and valuation.

Ensuring rigorous data verification
Late-discovered findings in messy data rooms can derail your investment logic, requiring rapid and stressful restructuring of your memos under tight committee timelines.
How Brightwave Helps:

Brightwave provides sentence-level citations linking every insight back to source documents, ensuring your due diligence is rigorous, verifiable, and audit-ready from day one.

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Brightwave Deal Impact

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Critical Impact (Significant Time Savings)
High Impact (Moderate Time Savings)
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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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