Deal Intelligence Platforms
What is Dealflow and what does it do?
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We built Dealflow to give deal professionals structured intelligence before the morning call. It is an AI-powered morning intelligence platform that monitors 69 curated public sources across M&A, Legal, and VC, extracts structured data with GPT-4o, and delivers daily briefings with vertical-specific enrichment. It is open-access. No login. No payment wall.
How the engine works
Dealflow runs one ingestion + extraction + enrichment engine across fragmented public data. It monitors SEC filings, press wires, court dockets, regulatory agencies, and VC outlets. The output is not a raw feed. It is a structured deal record.
That matters for practitioners. Analysts do not need another inbox full of alerts. They need source-backed records they can scan fast. Dealflow turns public filings and news into clean, usable deal intelligence with the source trail attached.
We also designed it for speed. The 45-90 minute morning scan compresses to a 5-10 minute review. That time goes back into judgment, outreach, pitch work, and analysis.
M&A: deal flow, financials, and valuation
On the M&A side, we track SEC EDGAR filings, press wires, law firm tombstones, PE firm deal pages, and IB advisor pages. The source set includes names that deal teams already watch: PR Newswire, Business Wire, GlobeNewswire, Kirkland, Skadden, Latham, Weil, Paul Weiss, Blackstone, KKR, Apollo, Carlyle, TPG, Warburg Pincus, Advent, Evercore, Lazard, Moelis, and Houlihan Lokey.
The enrichment is where the platform saves real time. For M&A deals, Dealflow provides:
- SEC XBRL financials: revenue, EBITDA, total assets, debt, cash
- Trading multiples: EV/Revenue and EV/EBITDA
- Forward cases: 3-year pro forma projections in bear/base/bull scenarios
- DCF valuation
- Monte Carlo simulation: 1,000 trials
- REIT analysis where applicable
- Live market data via yfinance
For a deal of interest, one click generates a formatted one-pager with deal terms, financials, EV multiples, and comparable analysis. That is the version you can forward to the MD without rebuilding it in Excel first.
Legal: dockets, agencies, and IRAC
In Legal, Dealflow monitors court dockets, DOJ filings, and UK CMA regulatory releases. The point is early awareness. Counsel should not discover an enforcement action or a new filing late in the day because they were checking five different websites manually.
Dealflow also produces IRAC analysis. That means:
- Issue: what is the legal question
- Rule: what law or precedent applies
- Analysis: how the facts map to the rule
- Conclusion: the likely outcome
That structure is useful for litigators and general counsel who need a fast read on regulatory exposure, not a blank-page summary. It gives a clean first pass for triage before the team goes back to primary sources and deeper legal research.
VC: funding rounds, comparable deals, and cap-table signals
In VC, Dealflow tracks venture news and research sources and turns them into a daily feed of new funding activity. The product is built for analysts who need to catch the signal before valuations run up.
The VC workflow focuses on:
- new funding announcements by sector and stage
- comparable round data for benchmarking
- cap table signals from available disclosure data
We also draw from venture sources such as TechCrunch, Crunchbase, and Tavily. The outcome is simple. You get a structured view of what just happened, how it compares, and where the market is moving.
Who uses Dealflow
Dealflow is built for deal professionals, litigators, and venture investors who need structured intelligence before their morning calls.
More specifically, that includes:
- investment bankers
- PE associates
- corporate development teams
- litigators
- general counsel
- fund managers
- deal associates
- venture analysts
The common problem is the same across all three verticals. Too many sources. Too much manual aggregation. Too little time. We eliminate the aggregation step so teams can spend time on the decision step.
Data sources and verification
Dealflow uses publicly available filings and news. It is an intelligence layer for awareness and triage.
That means two things:
- We are source-first. The data comes from public filings, wires, dockets, and official releases.
- We are not a substitute for due diligence. Users should verify every point through primary sources before making financial or legal decisions.
That boundary matters. Dealflow helps you find the signal fast. It does not replace the judgment of the analyst, associate, or counsel who closes the loop.
What Dealflow is not
Dealflow is not a replacement for Bloomberg or AlphaSense. It fills the gap for practitioners who need structured, enriched deal intelligence delivered automatically each morning, without a login wall and without manual research workflows.
It is also not a black box. The goal is transparency, speed, and practical usefulness. If a record matters, you should be able to trace it back to the source.
Bottom line
Dealflow is a morning intelligence platform for M&A, Legal, and VC. It monitors 69 curated sources, extracts structured data, and adds vertical-specific enrichment so practitioners can move from scan to analysis faster.
If you track deals for a living, that is the job.
— The Dealflow Team
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