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Challenges and Solutions

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Streamlining your IC memo cycles
Your buy-and-build strategy requires constant IC preparation, yet multiple review cycles often consume 5-7 days. Manually synthesizing financial, legal, and operational reports creates bottlenecks that slow your speed to conviction.
How Brightwave Helps:

Brightwave processes 2,000+ pages of due diligence instantly to draft comprehensive memos. You receive granular citations for every insight, allowing your team to validate findings and finalize deliverables in hours.

Mitigating late-stage diligence risks
Discovering critical operational findings late in the review process often forces rapid, stressful memo restructuring. This creates quality risks and unnecessary pressure when you need to be focused on your value creation strategy.
How Brightwave Helps:

Our AI identifies key risks across thousands of documents immediately upon upload. You can address potential operational hurdles early, ensuring your investment thesis remains robust without last-minute scrambling.

Managing your high-volume deal flow
Your team faces the pressure of reviewing 50-200 CIMs annually per professional to identify the right upper mid-market targets. Manually parsing this volume limits your ability to allocate time to high-conviction opportunities.
How Brightwave Helps:

Brightwave delivers 25x faster CIM analysis, allowing your team to screen 15 deals in the time it usually takes to review one. You can rapidly filter opportunities and focus your resources on the most promising transformations.

Synthesizing your complex data rooms
Combining disparate reports on financial models, commercial data, and legal frameworks into a coherent narrative is manually intensive. This complexity increases the chance of missing the nuanced connections vital for operational value creation.
How Brightwave Helps:

Our platform synthesizes diverse data sources into a unified analysis with sentence-level citations linking back to the source. You gain immediate clarity on cross-functional insights, empowering faster, data-driven decisions for your control buyouts.

Case Studies

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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
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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