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AI tools
Posts on AI tools from Walter Allison.
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How reliable is your comparable transaction set?
A coverage score for valuation work that depends on comparable deals. Useful when synthetic comps are starting to show up.
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A wizard for the AI deal memo privilege question
Four questions about how a deal memo paragraph was produced, plus a heuristic classification of the likely work product status.
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A prompt for first-round M&A diligence
Describe the deal in a paragraph. Get a structured diligence-question prompt for any AI tool.
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Audit your AI prompt before you run it
A local heuristic scan for the patterns in legal AI prompts that show up badly in discovery.
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Find the missing rep
A keyword scan that flags which standard reps and warranties categories are missing from an APA draft.
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A better prompt for reading your term sheet
The term sheet decoder generates a structured AI prompt that produces a clause-by-clause walkthrough you can actually use.
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When AI prompts become evidence, the discovery question nobody is asking
AI tools used in M&A diligence generate prompt logs, retrieval traces, and model output history. None of that is privileged by default. The discoverability of that record is the question the corporate bar has not yet faced.
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The reps and warranties gap that AI document review cannot fix
AI excels at finding what is in a contract. The risk that matters most in M&A is what is missing from the contract. A practical look at the structural blind spot.
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Synthetic comparables in PE valuation, when the comp set is generated
A new category of data vendor is offering AI-generated comparable transaction sets to fill thin precedent data. The diligence question is whether a synthetic comp can support a valuation memo at all.
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AI in M&A diligence, what it does well and what it does not
AI document review has moved from novelty to default in middle market diligence. A practical look at where the tools earn their keep and where they fail loudly.
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Pre-LOI AI scoring of buyer bids, how sellers read between the lines
Sellers are starting to use AI to score buyer bid letters before signing the LOI. The dynamics on the negotiating table change when the seller has read the buyer's previous bids too.
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The AI deal memo and the work product privilege question
When a partner asks an AI tool to draft a deal memo, the lawyer's mental impressions and the AI's output are mixed in the same document. Who is the author for privilege purposes is a real question.