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How it works

Evidence in. Defensible terms out.

Pactlab connects the deal’s sources, drafts the findings, and leaves every decision to a named person — keeping the chain of evidence intact from first record to final term.

1. Connect the sources

Each source connects through an adapter with the same contract, and every record keeps its link to where it came from.

  • Billing

    Invoice lines, customers and exchange rates.

  • Code

    Commit history, identity maps and scan results.

  • Delivery

    Sprints and issues from the delivery tracker.

  • Documents

    Contracts and data-room files.

  • Management reporting

    The KPIs and ARR the seller reports.

2. Follow the loop

Six steps, the same for every deal and every industry.

  1. 01 · Evidence

    Collect the evidence

    Billing records, repositories, delivery data and documents — normalized, hashed and kept with their source.

  2. 02 · Finding

    Draft the findings

    Analysts, scanners and models draft issues that cite the evidence they rest on.

  3. 03 · Review

    A person decides

    A named reviewer accepts, rejects or asks for support. Nothing is accepted by a machine.

  4. 04 · Assumption

    Price the risk

    Accepted risks become explicit, versioned inputs with a price range and a basis.

  5. 05 · Valuation

    Run the numbers

    Deterministic scenarios and a purchase-price bridge, run from stored inputs.

  6. 06 · Deal terms

    Set the terms

    Price adjustments, escrows and indemnities, each tied to the risk that justified it.

3. Decide with the evidence in front of you

Pactlab uses Claude to read, compare and draft. The decisions stay with the deal team.

  • Humans decide

    AI extracts, compares and drafts. It never approves a finding, sets a price or makes a legal call.

  • Deterministic numbers

    Money, KPIs and scenarios come from versioned calculations and decimal arithmetic, not model prose.

  • Citations required

    No citation that resolves, no accepted finding.

  • People data protected

    Aggregate by default. HR, compensation and performance data never reach a model.

4. Leave with something you can defend

  • Reconciled revenue

    An approved bridge from reported to billed ARR.

  • A risk register

    Accepted, priced findings with their evidence and reviewers.

  • A frozen valuation

    Approved scenarios whose adjustments trace to accepted risks.

  • Defensible terms

    Escrows, indemnities and price adjustments tied to what diligence found.

Pilots with acquirers of software companies

We are working with a small number of design partners on live deals. If you buy or invest in software businesses, talk to us.

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