Meet every deal at the first look.

Gradien reads inbound deal flow against your fund’s thesis and returns a short memo: fit, flags, and a pass-or-pursue call.

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01.What Gradien does

Forward inbound deal documents. Gradien extracts financials, sector, geography, and structure, then compares each opportunity against your written criteria. You get a one-page memo with a recommendation — and every claim traced to its source line.

02.How we run it

A short, concierge-style pilot with a handful of emerging funds. You forward live deal flow; we set up your thesis and tune the screen with your feedback. It takes weeks, and nothing changes in your existing systems.

03.

Criteria

Acquisition thesis

Your written thesis is the screen. Every opportunity is tested against it — the same test, every week.

src://thesis/criteria · traced

Sector and size fit

Sector, EBITDA band, geography, and transaction size, read from the document and checked against your ranges.

src://cim/financials · extracted

Transaction readiness

Audited financials, sell-side advisors, timeline signals — how real and how close this process is.

src://cim/process · flagged

Deal-flow quality

Which brokers and channels send you deals worth a partner’s hour. The screen keeps score over time.

src://inbox/history · scored

Tools and workflow

Memos land where you work — your inbox, your pipeline tracker. No new system to learn.

src://workflow/handoff · routed

Warm-introduction paths

Who on your side already knows the seller, the banker, or the operator — surfaced with the memo.

src://network/paths · matched

04.Send the deal

Forward the teaser, CIM, or broker email to your Gradien address — or let it watch the deal-flow inbox you already use.

05.Gradien screens it

Each document is compared against your thesis and your past passes. Borderline calls get flagged for you instead of guessed.

06.You get the memo

Fit, flags, and a recommendation, with every claim traced to the source document. Your team makes the call.

Who it’s for
  • Independent sponsors and emerging lower-middle-market funds
  • Teams of 2–10 investment professionals in the US and Europe
  • A written sector, EBITDA, or transaction-size thesis
  • Meaningful recurring inbound deal flow
Who it’s not for
  • VC funds and large institutional PE
  • Traditional one-acquisition search funds
  • Advisory firms and fund administrators
  • Firms with low or outsourced screening volume

“Smaller teams have valuable inbound — but the first-pass review is spread across documents, emails, notes, and individual judgment.”

The thesis this pilot tests