DealOS helps buyers and sellers create understanding — not just exchange documents. Structured conversations replace the endless request list, and ALICE turns every one of them into evidence-backed findings.
Traditional due diligence is driven by document requests, spreadsheets and endless back-and-forth. DealOS centres the process on structured expert conversations between buyers and sellers instead.
Documents are primary.
Humans are secondary.
You request a thousand files and hope the thing that matters was in one of them.
Human understanding is primary.
Documents are supporting evidence.
You talk to the people who run the business, and ALICE turns what they say into structured findings you can stand behind.
Diligence, deal execution and post-acquisition integration in a single platform — so nothing you learn gets lost at the handover.
Set the process up. Configure the pillars and layers for this particular business, load what you already have, and agree when the conversations happen.
Build the understanding. Six structured conversations, one per pillar. This is the part that replaces the endless request list.
Decide. Everything gathered, reviewed in one place, so you can judge whether the deal is viable on what you actually know.
Lift off. Legals get done, funds move, and the understanding you built carries straight into integration.
Explore is broken into six pillars, each with a clear purpose and its own layers of questions. One conversation per pillar, and each one has a question it exists to answer.
Whether future performance depends on a robust organisation, or on a small number of individuals whose loss could materially impact the business.
Whether the company has a defendable market position and a credible pathway to sustainable future growth.
Whether the business can consistently deliver its products and services efficiently, profitably and at increasing scale.
Whether technology, systems and data are enabling the business, or creating hidden operational and commercial risks.
Whether the business is controlled, compliant and protected from risks that could lead to legal liability, regulatory action, financial loss or reputational damage.
Whether reported performance reflects economic reality, and whether future cash generation can be predicted with confidence.
ALICE knows the target and the process inside out. She listens to every conversation, captures what matters, gathers the evidence, notices what contradicts what, and keeps track of what still isn’t understood. Her job is to protect the buyer from making mistakes.
Buyer and seller talk through a pillar, live or in person, with ALICE putting the guidance and the next question on the buyer’s screen as they go.
Facts, risks and gaps surface as they emerge — each grounded in exactly what was said.
Anything ALICE couldn’t get on the call becomes a tracked task with an owner — the buyer approves, the seller responds.
Say something on the People call that also explains an operational dependency, and ALICE files it against that pillar too — so it never has to be asked again. Every conversation starts from everything already understood.
Each call closes with a synopsis, the findings that matter, and coverage across every layer — no write-up required.
A capable, founder-led team with strong domain knowledge — but customer relationships and institutional knowledge concentrate dangerously in two people, with no documented succession or retention plan in place.
An answer given on one call is filed against every pillar it informs. Later conversations start from what is already known.
Who runs what, who depends on whom, and where the knowledge actually sits — built from the conversation, not a form someone filled in.
Every finding links back to what was actually said, word for word. Auditable, defensible, never invented.
Every layer of every pillar is scored on what is genuinely answered, so you know what you understand and what you don't.
One deal, two clear views. The buy side gets analysis and coverage; the sell side gets a finite list of what to answer.
Google Meet, Xero, TrueLayer and Merge pull the numbers in, so the conversation stays about judgement.
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DealOS transforms due diligence from a document exercise into a shared process of understanding, decision-making and value creation. It connects diligence, deal execution and post-acquisition integration in a single platform, using the DEAL framework and an intelligence engine called ALICE.
Autonomous Learning, Intelligence & Curiosity Engine. ALICE knows the target and the process inside out: she listens to every conversation, captures what matters, gathers evidence, spots risks and contradictions, and works out what still isn't understood. Her job is to protect the buyer from making mistakes.
Design, Explore, Assess, Launch — the four phases of a deal on DealOS. Design sets the process up, Explore gathers the understanding through the pillar conversations, Assess is where you judge whether the deal is viable, and Launch is completion and the handover into integration.
From the moment heads of terms are signed. You bring the heads of terms, the information memorandum and whatever early documents you have, and DealOS builds the process around them.
Both sides of the deal. Buyers get structure, coverage and analysis. Sellers get a clear, manageable list of what to prepare, instead of an open-ended document request that never seems to end. Everyone works from the same source of truth.
You can keep one, and documents still matter — they are the evidence. The difference is that understanding comes from the conversations rather than a document scavenger hunt, and integrations pull the hard numbers in automatically, so calls stay focused on judgement.
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