The data room holds the files. We govern the decision.
Intralinks DealCentre AI improves how files in the data room can be searched and summarized. Capital Refinery sits above it as the decision integrity layer that takes the source pack and turns it into a defensible IC record.
The stack stores. Capital Refinery governs the decision.
What Intralinks owns
Data room hosting and AI-driven document workflow.
Strong for institutional data room hosting, access control, and AI-accelerated document search and summary. The right tool for the data room and diligence-distribution layer.
What Capital Refinery owns
The IC decision and the drift after it.
Lane-aware IC memo from raw deal pack (ingested from the data room), Risk Signals graded against firm policy, source-backed numbers, IC anchor on approval, drift tracking, signed exports.
Why teams run both
Intralinks holds the files. Capital Refinery turns them into a defensible decision.
The data room stays. Capital Refinery sits above it: ingest the source pack, grade against firm policy, anchor the decision basis at IC, track drift after the room votes. Two layers of one defensible workflow.
Institutional readiness measurement
Intralinks solves secure virtual data rooms and document distribution for sell-side and buy-side transaction workflows. Capital Refinery operates a category Intralinks doesn’t: institutional readiness measurement on the operating business itself — graded against the same 10-axis framework that buy-side ICs, lender credit committees, and LPs use to evaluate. The IRA artifact travels with the seller through the data room as the engine-graded institutional-readiness evidence layer.
The two product surfaces don’t compete — they operate at different layers of the stack. Intralinks handles document distribution; Capital Refinery handles structural readiness measurement and decision integrity. See institutional readiness and the same-engine architecture for the dimension Intralinks doesn’t address.
Keep Intralinks for the data room. Add the layer that governs the decision.
Bring us the same source pack you would put in front of IC. Same-day diagnostic pack back, alongside the data room.
Keep Intralinks if you need secure virtual data room and document distribution. Use Capital Refinery when you need a neutral, evidence-backed readiness artifact that shows what will survive institutional review.
Capital Refinery is the institutional measurement layer. It does not replace Intralinks; it sits next to it. The decision to engage is a routing decision, not a swap.
When to use CRIf Intralinks is the secure distribution layer for the data room but the IC packet is still being assembled and reconciled by analysts in Excel before each committee, that’s when Capital Refinery’s deterministic extraction and IC memo layer enters. Intralinks moves the documents; CR turns them into a graded record with provenance back to the source page.
Working with an advisor or AI consultant? Use CR as the independent measurement layer via the Modernization Impact Review. Want to shape the methodology? Apply as a design partner.