Compress the cycle. Preserve the value.
Mid-market deals run eight to eighteen months, and value erodes across that window. The heaviest controllable cost sits at the start — the months analysts spend producing deal materials. RainMaker brings that to days.
M&A is a value translation business — and the translation takes too long.
Boutique advisors carry deep judgement and relationships. What slows them is production: building the counterparty universe by hand, and drafting the same heavy deliverables mandate after mandate. RainMaker takes on that production so the advisor's hours go to judgement, not assembly.
Faster origination, and the deliverables that follow.
Upload a mandate and the workspace goes to work on both fronts at once — finding who matters, and drafting what the process demands.
The right counterparties, prioritised
A scored universe of buyers or targets, ranked by strategic fit and backed by evidence rather than a name in a spreadsheet.
- Fit, capacity, and appetite scored from real filings and news
- Strategic rationale drafted for each counterparty
- Prioritisation that puts the strongest fits first
Standard documents, drafted agentically
Teasers, information memoranda, and sector reports produced in your house format, in days rather than months.
- Teasers and information memoranda in house style
- Sector and market reports at analyst depth
- Meeting notes and summaries, kept deal-ready
Everything RainMaker writes traces back to a fetched source. The system summarises real evidence — it never invents company facts. For a business built on trust, that line is not negotiable.
Built first for DACH ↔ India & South Asia.
The sharpest value sits on cross-border mandates, where counterparty research spans languages, registries, and markets an advisor cannot cover by hand. We are building depth on the German-speaking sell-side and the Indian and South Asian buy-side before we broaden.
Built around your firm, not bolted on.
RainMaker is not a self-serve tool you configure alone. We onboard each advisor through a structured engagement, so the workspace reflects how your firm actually runs a mandate.
Workshop
We map your firm's deal journey end to end — how mandates move from origination to close, and where the hours are really spent.
Data ingestion
Your past deals are ingested into your own private workspace, so the system learns your house formats, your data sources, and your deal-lifecycle timelines. Your data stays yours and is never pooled with another firm's.
Custom product development
We build to your formats. Teasers, memoranda, and sector reports come out in your house style rather than a generic template.
User training
Hands-on training for your team, so the people preparing deliverables and running outreach are fluent in the workspace from day one.
Account management
A dedicated point of contact for questions, dashboard needs, upgrades, and troubleshooting — responsive support through the life of the mandate.
Your process is your edge. We protect it.
Your formats, your deal history, and your relationships are the product of decades of work. Our architecture is built so none of it can leak — to us, or to another advisor.
Each firm works in an isolated environment. Your data and formats are never used to train anything that serves another advisor. Full stop.
Private workspace per firm
Your corpus sits in its own environment. Nothing is pooled or shared across clients.
Your edge stays yours
Proprietary formats and process are never reused to benefit a competing advisor.
You own your data
Your data and derived formats remain yours, and are returned or deleted when you leave.
Protected in transit and at rest
Encryption throughout, with role-based access so only the right people in your team see the right work.
Hosting on your terms
EU hosting for DACH mandates and regional options elsewhere, to meet your data-residency needs.
Sourced, never invented
Every fact traces to a fetched source. The system summarises real evidence, and does not fabricate.
Infrastructure runs on established cloud providers, and formal certifications are on our roadmap. We are glad to walk your team through the architecture in detail.
Field notes on cross-border mid-market M&A.
Practitioner writing on the corridor, the deal cycle, and where AI genuinely earns its place in an advisory process. New pieces published here.
Where value leaks across an 18-month deal
A look at the points in a mid-market process where time quietly costs the seller.
Reading buyer appetite from public filings
What the record actually tells you about a counterparty's intent — and what it does not.
What AI should not do in an M&A process
The line between amplifying an advisor's judgement and pretending to replace it.
The succession gap driving German sell-side supply
A wave of Mittelstand owners is reaching exit without a successor — and family handover is no longer the default.
Why Indian acquirers look to the German Mittelstand
Domestic buyers are too few for the businesses coming to market — an opening for cross-border acquirers with strategic intent.
What a good teaser actually has to do
The difference between a document that gets read and one that gets a meeting.
Working with a small number of advisors.
We build deeply with one or two firms at a time. If cross-border mid-market work is your world, we would like to hear from you.
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