Allen: AI-Powered Deal Sourcing
Allen delivers analyst-grade insights and compresses the M&A timeline by seamlessly integrating intelligent deal sourcing with comprehensive due diligence across millions of companies globally. Move faster, from investment thesis to informed decision with clarity in every step of the way.
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The Complexity of Modern Global M&A
The Global Data Overload & Insight Deficit
Navigating the global M&A landscape presents immense challenges. Investment professionals face an overwhelming deluge of fragmented data from disparate sources – company registries, financial databases, news outlets, regulatory filings, and the web itself – spanning millions of private and public companies of all sizes across the globe. This "data-rich, insight-poor" scenario makes pinpointing genuinely relevant opportunities exceedingly difficult. Valuable analyst time is consumed filtering noise rather than evaluating strategic fit, hindering the ability to act decisively.
The Sourcing-to-Diligence Gap
Furthermore, a critical inefficiency exists in the conventional M&A workflow: the disconnect between deal sourcing and due diligence. Moving targets from initial identification to substantive analysis often involves manual data transfer, context switching between different tools, and potential information gaps, introducing friction and delays. Compounding this, generic sourcing tools lack the sophistication required to interpret the complex, nuanced investment theses that define a firm's unique strategy. Reliance on rigid filters or basic keyword matching means high-potential companies – particularly those not actively seeking investment – can be easily missed, especially when searching on a global scale.
Introducing Allen: Your Agentic M&A Analyst
Go Beyond Search with Your Dedicated AI Analyst Allen represents a fundamental shift from conventional data platforms and search tools. It is an intelligent AI agent engineered specifically for the demands of global M&A professionals across private equity, venture capital, corporate development, and investment banking. Allen does not merely filter data; it functions as an analytical partner. It possesses the capability to understand the intricacies of a unique investment strategy, moving far beyond the limitations of predefined filters or simple keyword searches. Allen actively works alongside its users, scouring a vast universe of diverse global data sources before performing deep, tailored analysis to deliver actionable intelligence, not just disconnected data points.
How Allen Works: From Thesis to Insight
Understanding Your Unique Investment Strategy
Allen's agentic AI capabilities set it apart. Users begin by articulating their specific investment mandate directly to Allen. This can encompass a wide array of criteria, including financial metrics, growth signals, technological footprints, market positioning, qualitative factors, and precise strategic objectives, such as identifying niche bolt-on acquisitions for a platform or pursuing complex thematic investments. Critically, Allen is designed to handle investment theses of arbitrary complexity, adapting to the user's specific language and intent. Before initiating any search or analysis, Allen confirms its understanding of the user's requirements and the desired structure for the output report, ensuring complete alignment and preventing wasted effort. This interactive process contrasts sharply with the static filtering options of conventional tools, enabling a truly bespoke approach.
Comprehensive Global Data & Intelligent Sourcing
Operating on a global scale, Allen accesses and integrates information from an extensive network covering over 30 million private and public companies worldwide. This includes data from national and international registries, financial data providers, global news feeds, regulatory filings, company websites, and more. Allen employs sophisticated proprietary search methodologies combined with generative AI workflows, going far beyond simple data aggregation. It intelligently matches companies against the user's confirmed complex thesis, identifying not only obvious candidates but also surfacing potential 'hidden gems' – promising companies not typically found through standard database searches or keyword filtering. This advanced AI-driven matching capability ensures a higher degree of relevance and alignment with specific strategic goals.
Allen's intuitive interface makes complex deal sourcing accessible and actionable
Beyond Data: Analyst-Grade Diligence & Reporting
Allen effortlessly bridges sourcing and due diligence. Once targets are identified—either by Allen or the user—it conducts in-depth research and analysis. This includes AML and director checks, financial analysis, review of filings, adverse media screening, and detailed product and market research. Users can also provide internal data—like policies, forecasts, contracts, or org charts—allowing Allen to deliver deeper, context-aware due diligence. Its findings are presented in structured, analyst-grade reports, tailored to user preferences and offering clear, actionable insights with supporting rationale. Unlike tools limited to data retrieval or scoring, Allen stands out through its integrated analysis and use of user-supplied context.
Unprecedented Speed and Efficiency
By automating and integrating complex workloads, Allen dramatically accelerates the entire front end of the M&A process. Tasks that might traditionally occupy analysts for weeks or even months – defining criteria, searching across multiple databases, filtering lists, gathering initial diligence data, and compiling preliminary reports – can be completed in a fraction of the time, often within days or hours. This results in a significant increase in pipeline velocity, enabling firms to react more swiftly to market opportunities and deploy capital with greater efficiency.
Allen's Global Reach
Companies Globally
Companies in Europe
Companies in the UK
Discover opportunities worldwide.
Allen gives you intelligence on 39 million companies – 9 million in the US, 12.5 million across Europe and 2.7 million in the UK – ensuring you can invest without borders.
The Allen Advantage: Key Benefits & Differentiators
True Strategic Intelligence, Not Just Data
Capability:
Allen moves beyond data aggregation and basic filtering. Its agentic AI interprets complex theses, performs multi-faceted analysis (including customisable due diligence), and delivers prioritised, relevant opportunities with deep, contextualised insights explaining the 'why'.
Outcome:
Gain genuine decision support early in the M&A process. Make faster, more informed choices based on tailored analysis, reducing reliance on time-consuming manual research and generic reports.
Seamlessly Integrated Sourcing & Diligence
Capability:
Allen uniquely combines deal sourcing with robust, customisable due diligence capabilities within a single, coherent workflow, retaining context throughout the process.
Outcome:
Eliminate the friction and inefficiency of disconnected processes. Move smoothly from identifying a promising target to understanding its fundamentals, all within one intelligent environment, saving time and reducing errors.
Discover Untapped Global Opportunities
Capability:
Leverage Allen's sophisticated search and analysis across millions of global companies to uncover high-potential targets, including 'hidden gems' not actively marketed or found in standard databases.
Outcome:
Gain a competitive edge by identifying unique opportunities worldwide, supporting diverse strategies from niche bolt-ons to major platform acquisitions across any sector or geography.
Radically Accelerate Your M&A Funnel
Capability:
Dramatically reduce the time required to move from investment thesis definition to a shortlist of analysed, diligence-checked opportunities, compressing weeks or months of effort.
Outcome:
Increase deal flow velocity, react faster to market dynamics, and deploy capital more efficiently – critical advantages in today's competitive landscape.
Execute Complex Strategies with Unmatched Flexibility
Capability:
Allen's agentic AI understands and executes highly specific, nuanced, and complex investment mandates that go far beyond predefined filters or keywords. It adapts to unique strategic requirements, offering practically infinite flexibility in analysis.
Outcome:
Confidently pursue specialised thematic, sector-specific, or geographically focused strategies, knowing your AI partner can handle the complexity and deliver tailored results that align precisely with your objectives.
Allen vs. Traditional & Tool-Based Approaches
Engineered for Discerning Global Investors
Empowering Strategic M&A Worldwide
Allen is designed to meet the specific needs of sophisticated investors and advisors operating in the dynamic global M&A landscape:
Private Equity & Venture Capital Firms
Seeking efficient global origination, enhanced due diligence capabilities, platform build support, and tools for complex thematic investing across all stages and sizes.
Investment Banks & Advisory Firms
Requiring targeted global searches, rapid target analysis, and deep market intelligence to support client mandates effectively and differentiate their services.
Corporate Development & Strategy Teams
Identifying strategic acquisition targets, analysing market opportunities, and monitoring competitive landscapes on a global scale to drive corporate growth.
Allen provides a powerful advantage for firms seeking intelligent automation that delivers genuine analytical depth, streamlines critical workflows, and unlocks access to global opportunities beyond the reach of traditional methods or basic data tools.
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Experience the Future of M&A Intelligence
Allen is preparing for a wider launch. Register your interest today to secure early access to an exclusive sandbox environment. Be among the first to leverage Allen's integrated AI capabilities for global deal sourcing and due diligence, and help shape the future of M&A. Access is limited and subject to qualification.