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Kison Patel

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Before You Buy an AI Tool for M&A, Ask These 5 Questions

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By Kison Patel
| M&A Science
To evaluate an AI tool for M&A, you’ll want to have it perform a selected job on realistic deal materials. Then, you’ll measure whether its outputs can be traced, challenged, reviewed, and used without being rebuilt. A polished demo shows capability under vendor-controlled conditions. A controlled pilot tests whether the product fits your team's documents, reviewers, and deliverables. We’ve got the five questions that turn that pilot into a decision instead of an impression.
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What to Do When a Seller Won't Give You Access to the Target's Team Before Close

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By Kison Patel
| M&A Science
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Serial Acquisition Operating Model: 5 Components That Keep Deal Quality From Slipping

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By Kison Patel
| M&A Science
A serial acquisition operating model has five components: strategy alignment, a living playbook, the right team structure, tracking systems, and a communication discipline. Teams that build all five before volume increases hold quality as deal count grows. Teams that treat any of them as a post-scale problem find out what's missing around deal ten. If that sounds bad, that’s because it is. Why does deal quality slip when acquisition volume increases? An M&A function is built to close deals.
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