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Challenges and Solutions

We Know What Keeps You Up at Night

Synthesizing complex operational data
You are often evaluating buy-and-build opportunities that require synthesizing financial, legal, and commercial reports simultaneously. The manual effort to combine these distinct streams often creates bottlenecks in your 5-7 day review cycles.
How Brightwave Helps:

Brightwave acts as an always-on analyst, ingesting data rooms to synthesize cross-functional insights automatically. You get comprehensive analysis that unifies operational and financial data in hours, allowing you to focus on value creation strategies.

Managing high-volume deal flow
Your team faces the pressure of filtering through 50-200 CIMs annually to identify the best platform and add-on targets. Dedicating significant resource hours to initial reviews often slows down your ability to execute on high-conviction opportunities.
How Brightwave Helps:

Upload CIMs and financial models to receive instant investment analysis with granular citations. You can process 15 deals in the time it usually takes to review one, ensuring you identify the right control buyout targets faster.

Reducing investment memo friction
Late-discovered due diligence findings often force rapid, stressful memo restructuring right before Investment Committee deadlines. This reactive process consumes valuable time that should be spent on strategic deal structuring.
How Brightwave Helps:

Generate IC-ready memos directly from your data room documents with sentence-level citations for verification. You can restructure narratives instantly based on new findings, cutting days off your preparation timeline without sacrificing quality.

Ensuring due diligence rigor
maintaining your standard of deep operational scrutiny while moving at market speed creates a risk of missed details. Relying on summarized findings without easy access to source material can compromise your conviction during committee reviews.
How Brightwave Helps:

Every insight generated is linked directly back to the specific page in the source document. You gain total confidence in your data with the ability to verify claims instantly, ensuring your rigorous diligence standards are met at speed.

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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
03
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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