The same diligence rigor PE runs — on your headcount.
Corporate development teams run buy-side M&A on a fraction of PE headcount. Capital Refinery brings the same lane-aware diligence rigor — graded against your firm policy — to every target you evaluate. Same shape of pack every time, every figure source-backed.
The corp dev reality
Corporate development is buy-side M&A without buy-side scale. A handful of people, a board that wants institutional-grade discipline, dozens of inbound and outbound targets a year. The work that PE associates do across a deal team has to compress into one analyst.
The result: every target gets evaluated to a different standard. The CEO calls about the exciting one and the team scrambles to produce a board-ready memo in three days. Definitions drift. The board sees inconsistent rigor across opportunities and starts losing trust in the screen.
What Capital Refinery brings
- Lane-aware diligence on every target — same shape every time, regardless of analyst
- Risk Signals graded against your firm policy: synergy assumptions, integration risk, EBITDA quality, customer concentration
- Source-backed numbers — every figure clicks back to the seller's CIM, financials, or model
- Board-ready summary pack rendered from the structured dossier
- Decision basis locked when the board commits — drift since approval renders for any subsequent integration review
How it fits the corp dev workflow
- Inbound target: drop the CIM, get back a graded summary same-day
- Outbound target: model the synergy thesis explicitly, render against firm policy
- Board pack assembly: render from the dossier, not rebuilt from scratch in PowerPoint
- Post-close integration tracking: drift since board commit renders on demand
Why this matters for corp dev specifically
Boards do not want to see “we evaluated 30 targets this year.” They want to see “we evaluated 30 targets to the same standard, and these are the three that cleared our policy thresholds — here is the basis.” Capital Refinery makes that level of consistency possible without adding headcount.
See it on a real target.
Bring us a CIM you're evaluating now. Same-day diagnostic pack back with the synergy thesis, integration risk Risk Signals, and a board-ready summary.