For advisors and boutiques
You have the client's trust.We bring the deal team behind you.
You know the owner, the market and the decisions that matter. Ailpa adds the research, analysis, materials and process continuity that consume a deal team's time. Our AI native system supports the work. Your judgement directs it, and the client relationship remains yours.
Deeper work, under your direction.
Project Ahorn
Precision components · 140 people · Baden Württemberg
- Approach
Buyers who fit
214 reviewed · 18 in play
- 01Strategic, industrial automationNordicsAdjacent product line, stated EU expansion mandate94
- 02Strategic, adjacent componentsGermany and AustriaShared customers, capacity constrained91
- 03Private equity, platform buildBeneluxActive buy and build in the sector86
- 04Family holding, long term ownerSwitzerlandHolds industrial firms for decades81
- 05Strategic, entering EuropeNorth AmericaNeeds a European production base77
- 06Private equity, buy and buildUnited KingdomSecond platform in the space72
Why this matters now
A competitive process needs institutional depth. You have three ways to get it.
Buyers arrive with dedicated teams, detailed data requests and a clear view of their alternatives. A seller needs equal discipline in the preparation, the buyer search and the response to diligence. For a boutique, the question is how to create that depth without losing the model that clients value.
Build a bench
- Recruit and retain a permanent team
- Train it to your standards
- Carry fixed cost across uneven deal flow
- Keep capacity tied to headcount
Full control, with permanent cost and management.
Buy software
- Choose and configure the tools
- Train the team and maintain the workflows
- Pay the licence between mandates
- Keep responsibility for every deliverable
Useful tools, operated by your own team.
Work with Ailpa
- Add capacity through the mandate
- Work to your process and standards
- Carry no fixed cost before closing
- Receive work prepared for your review
More depth while your judgement stays in control.
How it works between us
The relationship stays yours. We strengthen the work behind it.
What stays with you
- The client and the relationship
- The seat at the table
- The advice and the judgement
- The negotiation
- The final word on everything
What we prepare
- Valuation analysis and its evidence
- Buyer research across the relevant market
- Core materials prepared to your standard
- Diligence tracking and draft responses
- A current view of the work still open
You can present us as part of your team or keep us entirely in the background. That is agreed before we begin, along with everything else.
What changes
Three things, from the first mandate.
Your senior time stays senior
Research, drafting and process tracking no longer have to consume the hours you should spend with the client, the buyer and the negotiation.
The buyer search goes beyond the network
The familiar names remain important. They are tested alongside buyers from adjacent sectors, other geographies and relevant investment strategies, each with a reason for inclusion.
The standard holds across the mandate
The financial work, materials and diligence record stay connected to the same evidence and are prepared consistently for your review.
The arrangement
Agreed in writing before anything begins.
- Nothing to install
- No software licence, subscription or user seats. We work through the mandate itself.
- Your client stays your client
- We do not approach your clients and we do not compete for them afterwards.
- Visible or invisible
- Whether we are named to the client is your decision, made at the start.
- Terms set for the mandate
- We agree the commercial terms before work begins. Our fee becomes due only when the transaction closes. There is no retainer or fixed cost.
Advisors on working with us
It is not software. Finished work arrives, reviewed, under our name. We spend our time where it counts, with the client and across the table.
The buyer list had names we would never have reached. Two of the final three offers came from it.
Common questions
What advisors ask first.
No. The relationship is yours and stays yours, during the mandate and afterwards. That is written into the arrangement before we start.
Begin
Bring us a mandate that deserves more depth behind it.
Tell us about the company, where the process stands and where additional capacity would matter most.