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Deal management

Stage 03 of 06

Every target, by stage, with the offer beside what the business is worth.

Deal Book holds the live process: buy-side and sell-side opportunities moving through prepare, market, letter of intent, diligence, financing, and close, each with its documents, its valuation, and its offers attached to the deal they belong to.

01 · What it does

A live process usually runs across a data room, a spreadsheet, an inbox, and somebody’s memory. It works until there are six conversations at once, and then the question “where did we land with Northgate” takes twenty minutes and two people to answer.

Every offer, stated against the same defensible range.

The useful part is not the board itself. On Value Alpha a bid that is fifteen percent light announces itself the day it arrives, not three weeks into diligence.

  • Both directions

    The same pipeline handles targets you are pursuing and buyers you are talking to. An acquisition looks the same from either end.

  • Offers, priced

    Each bid carries its position against the blended value. Serious and unserious separate themselves without a spreadsheet.

  • Nothing detached

    Documents, valuation, and correspondence sit on the deal record, not in four places that have to be reconciled later.

02 · In the product

Six live conversations, and where each of them stands.

Deal Book · both directions

Illustrative

Invented counterparties and targets. Sell side: offers for your business against its blended value. Buy side: your offer against each target's own range. Green is in your favour. A Deal Book with a switch between its sell side and its buy side. Sell side: six counterparties across five stages of a sell-side process. Offers run from $3.91M, fifteen percent below the $4.60M blended value, to $4.97M, eight percent above it. The Meridian Growth deal is assigned to Emily Parker. Buy side: six acquisition targets, from screening to financing, each with your offer against that target's own range. The offers run from seven percent below the target's base, $1.95M for Cedar Mechanical, to four percent above it, $3.55M for Halden Plumbing.

03 · Working together

Built for teams.

Advisory firms, funds and institutions rarely work a deal alone. On the Team plan, everyone working a deal shares one Deal Book.

  • An owner on every deal

    Assign each deal to a teammate. Its card shows who added it and who owns it now, so nobody has to ask.

  • One record, shared

    Valuations, documents and the pipeline are shared across the team, so the associate who ran the model and the partner who takes the meeting see the same evidence, and nobody works from last week's spreadsheet.

  • Who changed what, and when

    Edits to a valuation are logged with who made them, when, and what they did to the value. Saved versions keep their author, and an earlier one can be restored in one click.

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