“The goal was never to automate thinking. It was to give the team a faster, more reliable starting point—one they could trust, interrogate, and build on.”
Challenge
The firm’s deal teams were spending significant time manually compiling and synthesizing information from fragmented sources, including teaser emails, CIMs, attachments, internal notes, and third-party data providers. Critical early-stage workflows, particularly the creation of investment “quick cuts” and one-pagers, were slow, inconsistent, and heavily dependent on individual analysts.
AI experimentation had shown promise, but early efforts surfaced a key tension: speed alone did not equal trust. Analysts needed transparency into sources, the ability to override outputs, and confidence that AI-supported analysis would hold up under investment committee scrutiny.
As the firm articulated internally, the goal was not full automation. It was to reduce time-to-decision, surface signal earlier, and institutionalize repeatability without disrupting analyst judgment.
Solution
Syntari partnered with the firm to design and implement an AI-native deal automation workflow anchored in real investment practices, not abstract tooling.
Over a structured 12-week pilot, Syntari delivered:
• An end-to-end “Movers → One-Pager” AI workflow embedded into existing deal team processes
• Automated extraction of financial, narrative, and capital structure signals from unstructured materials
• A standardized, Excel-based investment one-pager aligned to how analysts already work
• Human-in-the-loop controls, including source traceability and analyst override capability
• A deliberate change management and adoption approach to build confidence, not resistance
Rather than replacing analysts, the system was designed to act as a copilot, accelerating first drafts, standardizing structure, and freeing teams to focus on judgment and decision-making.
As Syntari Founder & CEO Rafi Menachem described the approach:
“The goal was never to automate thinking. It was to give the team a faster, more reliable starting point—one they could trust, interrogate, and build on.”
Result
Within the pilot period, the firm confirmed measurable gains across speed, quality, and adoption.
Confirmed Outcomes
• 75% faster delivery velocity for early-stage deal materials
• 50–75% reduction in preparation time for investment one-pagers
• 65% of the deal team advanced to AI-enabled workflows, with adoption continuing to grow
• 15% improvement in project margins, driven by efficiency and reuse
• Reusable delivery playbooks created for future deal teams and use cases
In addition, the firm documented a critical qualitative shift: analysts reported higher confidence in outputs once transparency and override controls were introduced, validating the importance of human-in-the-loop design.
Before Syntari, deal teams were constrained by manual effort, inconsistent formats, and limited reuse. After implementation, the firm gained:
• Near-instant creation of standardized deal summaries
• Consistent structure across investment materials
• AI-supported workflows available 24/7 with unlimited capacity
• A foundation for expanding AI into diligence, portfolio operations, and governance
“Early MVPs proved automation could be significantly faster, but trust came from transparency and analyst control. Once that was in place, adoption followed.”
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