For private equity & strategy consultants

Deal Room

Take every deal apart before you sign

Commercial due diligence on any company with a meaningful public or digital footprint. Deal Room interrogates a target's customers, competitors and channels with a population calibrated to the real market, in days, not a six-week consultant engagement.

  • Test the commercial story against the target's real customers and buyers.
  • Map the competitive landscape the way the market actually sees it.
  • Run the channel and supplier checks before it goes in the IC memo.
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Commercial DD is slow, narrow, and late

01 / WHY NOW

The way a deal team tests a commercial story today works against the clock and the budget.

The engagement Six weeks, six figures

A consultant workstream that lands long after the auction clock starts, at a price that only pencils on the biggest deals.

The evidence A few dozen calls

Conclusions rest on a handful of expert interviews, often the same names every buyer in the process is dialling.

The story Tested too late

The seller's narrative reaches the IC memo without anyone asking the target's real buyers whether it holds.

What comes back

02 / THE READOUT

Bring a target with a real market footprint. Deal Room interrogates its customers, its rivals and its channels, then hands you a verdict you can take into the IC memo. Here is the shape of one.

Illustrative readout Target · mid-market DTC pet-food brand
Customer truth
Core buyers are loyal but ageing. Under-35 trial is weak, and price sensitivity rises sharply outside the subscriber base.
Demand · soft at the edges
Competitive landscape
Buyers rank two private-label entrants at near parity on quality, at roughly 30% lower price. The premium story holds only with existing subscribers.
Moat · thin
Channel & supplier
Growth is concentrated in a single retail channel, on terms the deck assumes will renew. The market read says that is the weakest link in the case.
Channel · concentration risk
IC read Priced for a growth rate the buyer base will not sustain.
Your target, your market. Deal Room fills these rows with the target's real buyers and rivals. Re-run it with your own thesis and segments as the case develops.

Three cuts, one engagement

03 / HOW IT WORKS
Customer

A synthetic panel of the target's actual buyer base: demand, loyalty, switching, willingness to pay across the segments that matter.

Competitive

How the market really ranks the target against its rivals, on price and on quality.

Channel & supplier

Pressure-test the commercial story end to end, so the margin assumptions are checked before they reach the IC memo.

Where it fits the deal

04 / WORKFLOW
On first screen

Pressure-test the thesis before you spend a dollar of diligence budget or a partner's weekend.

Against the CIM

Read how the market actually ranks the target versus its rivals, independent of management's deck.

Before the IC memo

Take the commercial story apart against the real buyer base, so the memo rests on checked claims.

As the thesis moves

Re-run any cut as new information lands through the deal, rather than once at delivery.

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Why trust the readout

05 / WHY TRUST IT

The buyers in the readout are not invented. They are drawn from a population calibrated to the real market, then benchmarked against published human data.

A grid of synthetic panel members, each a named, located person with a photo and a short first-person bio
The buyers in your readout. Each is a specific, located person drawn from the calibrated population, recruited into the target's category.
The market is the real oneUS Census + ACS microdata

The synthetic buyer base is calibrated to real demographics and firmographics to roughly 1% marginal error, so you are interrogating the target's actual market.

Buyers track real buyersGallup / Pew benchmarks

Synthetic responses are checked against several hundred published human survey results, so demand, loyalty and price sensitivity move the way real buyers do.

One population, every cut. The same calibrated market answers the customer, competitor and channel questions, so the three cuts in your readout are consistent by construction. Full methodology available for diligence review.

Deal Room vs. traditional commercial DD

06 / WHY IT WINS
Traditional commercial DD
FishDog
Time
4–6 week consultant engagement
Days
Cost
Six figures per workstream
A fraction. Run as many cuts as you need
Coverage
A few dozen expert calls
A calibrated population of the target's market
Iteration
One report, fixed at delivery
Re-run as the thesis changes

Diligence at deal speed.

Bring a target. We'll take it apart with you.

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