Built by
M&A dealmakers with Barclays, EY, Deloitte and FRP backgrounds.
Private Equity
See the market.
Spot the signals.
Know where to focus.
Specialist AI agents for private equity.
BlueKnight maps private markets, identifies potential seller signals, ranks targets against your investment thesis and produces evidence-backed investment work.
M&A-grade intelligence. Investment professionals in control.
M&A-Grade Quality
Built for the standards demanded by senior dealmakers
and their C-suite clients.
Used by
Dealmakers with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and UBS backgrounds.
A top-tier deal team, alongside yours.
The capability of a much larger team. The control remains with yours.
The Private-Equity Challenge
Private markets don’t arrive as a clean pipeline.
Company information is fragmented. Seller intent is rarely explicit. Screening large markets manually limits coverage and consumes investment-team time.
Map the full market
Build a structured view of relevant companies across sectors, niches and geographies.
Find meaningful signals
Surface ownership, governance and corporate events that may indicate potential openness or change.
Focus investment time
Rank companies against the investment thesis so the team can concentrate on the strongest opportunities.
BlueKnight / Deal Intelligence
From a brief to
M&A-grade output.
One connected workflow that turns a brief into M&A-grade reports in hours, not weeks.
Human in charge.
“Hours,
not weeks.”
The Workflow
From investment thesis to prioritised pipeline.
- 01Define
Define the investment thesis
Enter an investment thesis, target profile or reference company to establish the acquisition criteria.
- 02Map
Map the relevant market
Identify and categorise relevant companies across the selected sectors, niches and geographies.
- 03Assess company fit
Prioritise the opportunities
Assess investment fit, acquisition attractiveness and potential owner openness.
- 04Acquire target
Full target list with contacts and emails
Create target research, market analysis, valuations and precedent-transaction work.
The Intelligence Stack
One intelligence stack.
Built for private equity.
Leading private-market data
Structured company and market information brought together for investment research.
Proprietary deal signals
Corporate, ownership and governance events interpreted for their potential relevance to origination.
Specialist AI agents
Agents that research, score, analyse and produce investment work using deal-specific reasoning.
Data shows you the market. Signals reveal movement. Agents determine where to focus.
Deal-Specific Reasoning
Know why every company deserves, or doesn’t deserve, attention.
BlueKnight assesses targets against the logic of the investment thesis, rather than relying solely on generic database filters.
- Mandate fit
- How closely the company matches the sector, offering, customer, geography, scale and investment criteria.
- Acquisition attractiveness
- The commercial characteristics and strategic qualities that make the company potentially compelling.
- Potential owner openness
- Seller signals and ownership circumstances that may influence the likelihood or timing of engagement.
Assess mandate fitTop targets
- #192
Direct thesis fit in specialty distribution; recurring service revenue; founder-led with succession discussion in filings.
Director change · 41 days ago
- #287
Adjacent sector leader with strong margin profile; share reorganisation flagged in latest confirmation statement.
Share reorganisation · 3 months ago
- #381
Regional consolidator; PE-backed since 2019 with typical hold-period exit window approaching.
Holdco activity · Q1
Proprietary Deal Signals
Surface the signals behind potential seller movement.
BlueKnight’s agents examine changes across ownership, governance, corporate structure and shareholder activity, then interpret their potential relevance to the investment team.
Investment-Ready Outputs
From target screening to finished investment work.
Prioritised target lists
Targets ranked with deal-specific rationale and potential seller signals.
Market maps
Structured coverage of the relevant sector, niche or geography.
Company and sector research
Evidence-backed analysis of companies, markets and commercial context.
Valuations
Structured valuation work with supporting assumptions and evidence.
Acquire target
Full target list with contacts and email.
Other tools return companies. BlueKnight produces the analysis behind the investment decision.
One connected workflow
From a live brief to
client-ready deal work.
BlueKnight’s specialist AI agents work from the same brief, evidence and prior analysis.
Shared mandate context + evidence
- 01Map
Map the market
Build the relevant company universe.
- 02Prioritise
Find and rank buyers or targets
Score strategic fit against the live mandate.
- 03Signal
Identify buyer or seller signals
See which companies may be considering an acquisition or sale.
- 04Analyse
Analyse and value
Assess the company, precedents and valuation.
- 05Deliver
Build client-ready outputs
Produce the seven recurring deal-team deliverables.
Brief once. Review the evidence. Move the mandate forward.
Human in Charge
BlueKnight AI agents don’t sleep.
Your investment team stays in charge.
Every output is designed to be checked, challenged and improved by an experienced investment professional.
- Inspect the evidence
- Challenge the rationale
- Adjust the investment criteria
- Change scoring priorities
- Approve or reject recommendations
- Export the completed work
Put BlueKnight to Work
Put BlueKnight to work on your investment thesis.
See how specialist AI agents can map your market, prioritise targets and produce the analysis behind your next investment opportunity.
Request DemoBring a live sector, target profile or investment thesis.