How DealCollab Works

Last updated: [19/05/2026]

DealCollab is discovery infrastructure for mid-market M&A and strategic transactions. You describe your mandate once; the engine surfaces aligned counterparties. No listings, no broadcasting, no circulation of your deal.

The flow, start to finish

1. Describe your mandate. Chat with the intake assistant or paste a structured brief/teaser. It asks only what matching needs: intent, sector, geography, size, structure, and a few sector-specific questions. Ranges and descriptors are enough — no company names, no client-identifying details required.

2. Your mandate becomes an active proposal. The engine evaluates it against the network on submission, and re-evaluates when you update your mandate. You can edit, refine, pause, or delete your mandate at any time; changes flow into matching immediately.

3. Matches surface on your Deal Dashboard. Each match card shows sector, geography, and the alignment rationale — why this counterparty surfaced. Identity stays hidden. Match notifications are delivered in-app (email and WhatsApp channels are planned).

4. Expression of Interest (EOI). If a match looks right, send an EOI (50 tokens, deducted only if approved). The counterparty sees your anonymised interest and chooses to approve or decline. Receiving, approving, and declining EOIs is always free.

5. Connection. On approval, both sides receive verified contact details — advisor name and phone — and a thread opens on the Deal Dashboard. From that point, the conversation, diligence, and any transaction are entirely between you and the counterparty.

The privacy rule (the one thing to remember)

Identity, firm name, and contact details stay hidden on both sides until an EOI is sent and approved. Until then, counterparties see only anonymised deal parameters and rationale.

What the engine evaluates

Strategic and semantic alignment of intent, sector and sub-sector relevance, deal size compatibility, transaction structure fit, geography, and financial scale. Matching is automated; engagement decisions are always yours — the platform surfaces aligned counterparties, it does not decide for you.

What DealCollab supports

Majority and minority M&A, growth equity, strategic acquisitions, asset sales, joint ventures, fundraising, and structured partnerships — domestic and cross-border.

If the assistant misreads your mandate

You stay in control: edit the mandate and matching re-evaluates with your corrected inputs. Clearer inputs produce better matches — see Get Matched Faster for exactly how to answer.