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Investment banking & M&A advisory.

Pitch books assembled, buyer lists built, comps kept current. Analysts stop re-keying. Bankers stay in front of clients.

Use cases

What deal teams run on Hive

  • Buyer and target screening
  • Teaser and CIM drafting
  • Data room review
  • Financial model updates
  • Q&A tracker management
  • Process letter follow-ups
  • Comparable transactions
  • Closing checklist tracking
  • Pitch book preparation
  • Buyer and target screening
  • Teaser and CIM drafting
  • Data room review
  • Financial model updates
  • Q&A tracker management
  • Process letter follow-ups
  • Comparable transactions
  • Closing checklist tracking
  • Pitch book preparation
Investment banking & M&A

Pitch books built, not rebuilt.Processes run, not remembered.

Governed autonomy

Autonomy is earned, not switched on.

Every use case starts on a rung you choose. Each approval teaches Hive the boundary. As approvals become routine, the work moves up a rung, within limits you set and can pull back at any time.

AdvisoryHive surfaces and recommends. People act.
Draft for approvalHive prepares the output. A person reviews and sends.
Execute after approvalHive runs the whole process once a person says go.
Autonomous with exceptionsHive runs routine cases itself and routes only the exceptions.

Connect your deal data

CRM, data rooms and market data in one governed workflow, pitch to close.

The work Hive takes over

Use case examples. A sample of the work Hive takes over. The full map is drawn with your team in week one.

Pitch books are rebuilt from scratch at 2am the night before.

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Draft for approval

Hive assembles the pitch book from the firm's template: credentials pages, comps, precedent transactions and market slides, with every figure refreshed and sourced, ready for the deal team to shape.

ReadsCapital IQ, PowerPoint library, DealCloud
OutputPitch book draft, sourced figures
Book assembled: 34 slidesComps refreshedPrecedents: 12Team: shape only

Running a sell-side process is NDA logs, distribution lists and bid tracking held in one analyst's head.

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Execute after approval

Hive runs the process: logs NDAs, distributes teasers and CIMs, tracks who has what, manages data-room access and Q&A, and keeps the bid tracker and process letter deadlines current.

ReadsDatasite, DealCloud, Outlook, DocuSign
OutputProcess tracker, NDA log, bid tracker
Buyers contacted: 64NDAs signed: 31CIMs out: 31IOIs: 9Q&A logged: 118

Buyer and investor lists are built by hand and outreach isn't tracked.

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Draft for approval

Hive builds the target list from strategic fit, prior interest and the firm's relationships, tiers it, drafts the outreach for banker approval, and logs every response.

ReadsCapital IQ, DealCloud, Affinity, Outlook
OutputTiered buyer list, outreach drafts, response log
Buyer list: 84TieredOutreach draftedResponses logged: 41

Comps and precedents are stale the moment the book is printed.

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Autonomous with exceptions

Hive refreshes trading comps and precedent transactions from the data provider on schedule, flags material moves, and updates the firm's master sets.

ReadsCapital IQ, Excel
OutputRefreshed comps, change flags
Comps refreshed: 6 setsMaterial moves: 3Master updatedWeekly 06:00

Deal notes and call summaries never make it into the CRM.

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Draft for approval

Hive turns calls, meetings and email threads into structured deal and contact notes, updates DealCloud, and drafts the weekly process update for the client.

ReadsOutlook, Teams, DealCloud
OutputCRM notes, weekly client update
Calls captured: 18CRM updatedClient update draftedFri 17:00

Engagement letters, retainers and success fees are tracked on a spreadsheet.

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Execute after approval

Hive drafts engagement letters from the mandate, tracks retainers and milestones, raises the invoice on close, and chases what's outstanding.

ReadsDealCloud, DocuSign, Xero
OutputEngagement letter, invoices, chase log
Letters drafted: 3Retainers tracked: 11Success fee raisedOutstanding chased

Credentials and tombstones are out of date the moment a deal closes.

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Draft for approval

Hive updates the credentials library, tombstone pages and website entries on close, in the firm's format, for approval.

ReadsDealCloud, PowerPoint library, CMS
OutputUpdated credentials, tombstone
Deal closedTombstone draftedCredentials page updatedLeague table submission drafted

MDs can't see every live mandate, stage and fee at a glance.

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Advisory

Hive maintains a live view of mandates, process stage, fee pipeline and staffing, and briefs the MDs on Monday.

ReadsDealCloud, timesheets, Xero
OutputMD brief, Monday 07:00
Live mandates: 9Fee pipeline: current2 processes at riskMon 07:00

The CIM takes three weeks of analyst nights and still leans on last year's numbers.

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Draft for approval

Hive drafts the teaser and CIM from the management pack, the model and the data room, in the firm's format, with every figure tied to its source and updated when the numbers change.

ReadsManagement pack, model, data room
OutputTeaser, CIM draft, source map
CIM: 68 pages draftedAll figures sourcedRefreshed on new numbersDeal team: review only

Management sends new numbers and the model, the book and the buyer Q&A all go stale at once.

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Execute after approval

Hive takes the updated financials, refreshes the model and every dependent page, redrafts the affected Q&A answers, and shows the deal team exactly what moved and why.

ReadsManagement pack, model, Q&A log
OutputUpdated model, change log, Q&A redrafts
Model refreshed14 pages updated6 Q&A answers redraftedChange log for the MD
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