Acquisition Target Research at Scale

The Challenge

A boutique M&A advisory firm needed to shortlist acquisition targets from a universe of 5,000 companies. The client had specific criteria - think multiple locations, certain revenue profiles, particular market positions. Manually, this was an analyst-led exercise that would take two weeks or more. The problem: the client needed results in a week to support a live deal.

The Solution

We built a research agent that worked through the full list autonomously - pulling data from each company's web presence, evaluating it against the acquisition criteria, and scoring each target. No manual lookup. No copy-paste between tabs. The agent narrowed 5,000 companies to 100 prioritised targets and generated a PDF report for each one, ready to hand to the client.

The Outcome

Delivered in under a week. The shortlist contributed directly to a successful deal engagement. What would have taken a team of analysts two-plus weeks was done in two days of compute time - with consistent scoring criteria applied across every single company on the list.