Private equity & search

Source the next deal, read every document, report to committee.

You work the whole deal off one model: sourcing against your thesis, the market mapped, every CIM read into proprietary data with its provenance, and the committee memo built from the record. Built around your firm's edge, and run for you.

All industries
The systems you already run
Deal pipelineData room / CIMsDiligence filesIC memosPortfolio modelVendor data platformsThe public market
Resolved
One model
Some of what it answers
Targets that fit the thesisMarket position & whitespaceNumbers the CIM provesMemo committee can trustHoldings behind planThe buyer universe
Sourcing

Surface the targets before a banker does.

You start from your thesis. A seed expands into a scored, validated collection across millions of companies, weighed against your mandate and your prior pipeline. The targets you should be seeing come forward before a banker brings them.

Every target is matched against the companies already on your record, so the same business never shows up twice and a name you passed on two years ago surfaces with its history attached. You start the week on a ranked, validated list instead of a banker's teaser.

Grow Light Manufacturers

Sourced from your thesis, scored and validated, deduped to one record each.

All tiersValidatedEnrichedHas website156 validated
#TierCompanyKeywordAI relevanceSourceEnrichment
1T7
GrowTech Solutions
growtechsol.com
85.3472 likelyLinkedIn Searchenriched
2T6
Lumina Grow Systems
luminagrow.com
81.068 likelyWeb Searchscraped
3T4
AquaLux Inc
aqualux.io
→ techwater-corp.com
62.145 unlikelyCSV uploadredirected
4T8
Photon Ag
photonag.com
88.979 likelyReferralvalidated
340 ready to scrape · 250 scraped · ~18,540 pages · deduped 2 merged variants
Market mapping

Make every target comparable across the pipeline.

Prophet reads each company's products into a normalized capability taxonomy with clusters, so each target becomes a structured position you can set against every other company you have looked at.

Maturity and whitespace fall out of the same structure: where a target is deep, where it is thin, and where the market is open.

FeaturesMarketsClusters

Capability clusters · Aviation software

Companies 89Clusters 7Avg / company 2.4Most connected Airport mgmt
Airport management34
Ground handling28
Baggage management22
MRO19
Flight management26
Flight training15
Airline catering12
Airport management34
Ground handling28
Baggage management22
MRO19
Flight management26
Flight training15
Airline catering12
Company 360

The same company, resolved across your pipeline, your diligence, and the market.

The record resolves continuously, so when a company comes back around it is already there, not rebuilt by hand: the relationship history, the ownership, the people, and every prior touch held on one company. Your team works it from one record instead of three half-versions.

Sourcing, the market position, and the deal history all hang off that record, so when a company comes back around you already know it.

CompanyPipelineCompareDocuments
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Northwind Field Software

Field-service management software for HVAC & mechanical contractors

● DiligenceVertical SaaSAustin, TXFounded 2014
SourcesVendor platformWebsite · ProphetPublic / LinkedInCIM · confidentialDerived
Public / LinkedIn

Company basics

Employees
178 (+19%)
HQ
Austin, TX
Founded
2014
Leadership
Founder-CEO, 11 yr
Vendor platform

Funding & ownership

Raised
$32.0M
Last round
Series B
Lead
Summit Partners
Status
Inbound
CIM · confidential

Financials

Revenue
$24.1Mp.14 ↗
ARR
$21.6M
Growth
+28%
EBITDA
14%
Derived

Market position

Segment
Mid-market FS
Rule-of-40
42 ✓
Breadth
14 / 18
Fit
Strong
Website · Prophet

Products & capabilities — decomposed by Prophet

Dispatch2 mod · 5 cap
Field operations management

Schedules technicians, assigns jobs, and runs the day in the field.

Scheduling
Schedule optimizationJob assignmentRoute planning
Mobile field app
Work order executionPhoto & signature capture
Billing & Contracts2 mod · 4 cap
Billing managementContract management

Turns completed work into invoices and keeps recurring agreements current.

Invoicing
Invoice generationPayment collection
Service agreements
Agreement trackingRenewal management
Assets & Compliance2 mod · 4 cap
Equipment managementCompliance management

Tracks installed equipment and the certifications the work depends on.

Equipment records
Asset trackingWarranty tracking
Compliance
Credential monitoringRefrigerant tracking (EPA)
Document intelligence

Every CIM you read becomes proprietary data that compounds.

AI reads every CIM and data-room file into structured records: terms, figures, and segments, each one traced to the page and region it came from. Because it extracts onto your resolved record, your analyst verifies against the source in one click instead of retyping it.

Across every deal you look at, that structured data accumulates into a proprietary dataset only you have, queryable and current. The more you diligence, the sharper the edge you are building.

FinancialsDataroomMetricsDeal ScoreIC Deck

Acme Corp Acquisition

Playbook · Financial Diligence

Verify revenue history
3 / 5 artifacts mapped
Validate EBITDAHIGH
Review needed
Debt analysis
Requested

Deal score

GO
78
78/1003 / 4 criteria
EBITDA > $500k
Debt/EBITDA < 2x
CAC payback < 12mo
Net retention > 90%

Financials

FY 2021–2023
Metric202120222023
Revenue$2.5M$3.1M$3.8M
EBITDA$400k$550k$725k
EBITDA margin16.0%17.7%19.1%
Gross margin61%63%64%
Net retention88%90%92%
Source: CIM p.14 · model.xlsxDownload CSV
Diligence reconciliation

Tie every figure in the CIM back to the document that proves it.

The model reconciles the figures management presents against the underlying data room: bank statements, the GL, AR aging. Each revenue figure and each adjusted-EBITDA addback ties back to the exact source doc and page, so your team verifies the story instead of taking it on faith.

Where the numbers do not agree, an agent drafts the variance and the document it should reconcile to, and holds it for your analyst to clear before the memo. Because it reads off data that agrees, the draft is one your team can trust. An owner-comp addback presented at $0.62M that the bank statements support at $0.41M is flagged, not buried: the $0.21M carries straight into adjusted EBITDA.

ReconciliationCIMData roomGLAddbacks

CIM vs. data room

Every figure traced to the underlying document, with the variance held on the row.

3 of 6 flagged
FigureCIMResolvedVarianceStatusTraced to
Revenue (FY23)$42.5M$42.1M−$0.4MMISMATCHgl_2023.xlsx
Reported EBITDA$8.10M$8.10M$0Tiesgl_2023.xlsx
Owner comp addback$0.62M$0.41M−$0.21MMISMATCHstmts Q1–Q4
One-time legal addback$0.34M$0.34M$0Tiesgl_2023.xlsx
Non-recurring rent$0.18M$0.18M$0Tiesstmts Q1–Q4
Adjusted EBITDA$9.24M$9.03M−$0.21MMISMATCHgl_2023.xlsx
!

Owner-comp addback presented at $0.62M; bank statements support $0.41M. The $0.21M gap carries straight into adjusted EBITDA. Verify against stmts Q1–Q4 before the memo.

Sourcescim.pdf p.14gl_2023.xlsxstmts Q1–Q4ar_aging.csv
Reporting

Report to committee off the same record you diligenced.

An agent drafts the IC memo and the quality-of-earnings summary from the structured record, and every figure on the slide links back to the CIM page and the model cell it came from. It drafts; your deal team approves and takes it to committee. Because it draws on the resolved record and the market map you built, the position you take is the one your data supports.

The same record carries through the hold and into the exit: portfolio performance on one model and the buyer universe, current from first look through the sale.

Investment committee memo

1 · Thesis
2 · Financials
3 · Market
4 · Risks
Revenue (TTM)
$42.5M
▲ 15% YoY
EBITDA margin
19.1%
▲ 1.4 pts
Net retention
92%
▲ 2 pts
cim.pdfFinancial Performancep.594%
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
TTM

Revenue compounded at 26% to $42.5M TTM, with EBITDA margin expanding 1.4 points to 19.1% as the cost base scaled sub-linearly with bookings.

Sourcescim.pdf · pp.5,6model.xlsx · Q3
Portfolio monitoring

Hold every company to the plan that won the deal.

Through the hold, each portfolio company is measured against its own underwriting: revenue and EBITDA, plan versus actual, by company. The model reads each company's systems, holds the KPIs current, and flags the holdings drifting off plan before the quarter closes.

When a company runs behind, an agent drafts the variance against plan and the metric that moved, and routes it to the deal partner for the next operating review under your permissions. A holding tracking EBITDA at 77% of plan because gross margin slipped is on the agenda, not a surprise at year-end.

MonitoringFundsKPIsBoard packs

Actuals vs. underwriting plan

Each holding measured against the plan that won the deal, current from company systems.

Portfolio cos.
11
across 3 funds
On plan
7
rev & EBITDA ≥ 98%
Behind plan
2
EBITDA < 90% of plan
Last sync
6 min
read from company systems
CompanyRevenue · plan / actualEBITDA · plan / actualStatusRead from
Northwind Logistics
vintage 2022
$60.4M104%
plan $58.0M
$12.3M106%
plan $11.6M
On planNetSuite
Tessera Health
vintage 2023
$41.7M102%
plan $41.0M
$7.4M95%
plan $7.8M
WatchSage Intacct
Cobalt Software
vintage 2021
$30.1M90%
plan $33.5M
$7.2M77%
plan $9.4M
Behind planQuickBooks
Harbor Foods
vintage 2024
$24.3M93%
plan $26.0M
$2.5M81%
plan $3.1M
Behind planNetSuite
!

Cobalt Software is tracking EBITDA at 77% of plan: revenue held but gross margin slipped 3 points since close. Flagged for the next operating review with the deal partner.

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