Case study
Automating due diligence
Leading a team of five that built an analytics suite for deal advisors, turning weeks of due diligence work into hours.
Context
Deal advisory teams spent weeks on manual analysis before every deal.
Challenge
The work was slow and repetitive, and it was hard to scale.
Approach
- Led a team of five as tech lead.
- Designed, built, deployed and maintained an analytics suite for deal advisors, with three products:
- Capital market data: macroeconomic analysis of multi-dimensional capital market KPIs from 165 countries.
- Peer group calculation: data on more than 11,000 companies, with market segment analysis.
- Pre-deal purchase price allocation: a digital due diligence tool that estimates the fair value and goodwill of an acquisition target.
- Focused on the pre-deal purchase price allocation as the main product.
Outcome
The pre-deal purchase price allocation tool cut part of the due diligence process from weeks to hours.
What I learned
Automation lands when you understand the people doing the work first.