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Challenges and Solutions

We Know What Keeps You Up at Night

Manual IC memo construction drags on
Your teams often spend 5-7 days cycling through reviews to synthesize financial, legal, and commercial reports. This manual drafting delays decision-making and strains resources during critical deal phases.
How Brightwave Helps:

Brightwave generates IC-ready investment memos in hours. By instantly synthesizing data rooms, you reduce review cycles and focus your team's energy on thesis validation rather than document assembly.

Navigating high-volume deal flow
Processing 50-200 CIMs annually per professional creates a significant bottleneck in your evaluation pipeline. This volume often forces trade-offs between depth of analysis and the number of opportunities you can review.
How Brightwave Helps:

Process 15 deals in the time it takes to review one. Our AI analyzes CIMs 25x faster, allowing your team to screen more targets and execute your buy-and-build strategy with greater velocity.

Synthesizing complex diligence streams
Integrating disparate streams of due diligence—from operational metrics to legal risks—is prone to oversight. Late-discovered findings often require rapid, stressful memo restructuring right before Investment Committee meetings.
How Brightwave Helps:

Get comprehensive investment analysis with sentence-level citations linking every insight back to source materials. This ensures you catch critical risks early and maintain total confidence in your data during IC presentations.

Uncovering operational value levers
Identifying tangible operational value creation opportunities within a massive data room is time-consuming. You need to quickly assess portfolio transformation potential without getting lost in the noise of 2,000+ pages.
How Brightwave Helps:

Brightwave rapidly extracts and synthesizes operational KPIs and transformation opportunities. This accelerates your ability to validate your investment thesis and plan for post-close operational improvements immediately.

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Brightwave Deal Impact

Click on any activity to see detailed time savings and how Brightwave accelerates your deal process.
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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