See It Work — From a quarterly spreadsheet to continuous deal radar | Book 11 · AI Agents for M&A

Most corporate-development teams keep a target list in a spreadsheet, review it quarterly, and refresh it when the CEO asks 'what's out there?' A screening agent makes target identification continuous: it watches thousands of signals — funding rounds, leadership changes, financial filings, news — all the time, not once a quarter.

Spotting the right target early is the highest-returning investment in M&A — the best deals are found before they're on the market. A quarterly spreadsheet misses them; a continuous radar doesn't.

What this means for you

Continuous signal monitoring replaces the quarterly spreadsheet, so you find targets early. What this means for you: you stop discovering good acquisitions after a competitor already has — your deal radar is always on, and early identification is where the real returns in M&A come from.

Screening becomes a continuous operation, not a quarterly refresh:

Deal-Flow Screening

todaya quarterly spreadsheet

agentmonitors thousands of signals

strategic fitscored as things change

payofffind targets early

Early identification is the highest-returning investment in M&A — agents make it continuous, not quarterly.

For the technical reader — the command, and how to verify it yourself

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Full step-by-step is in Appendix RX: Hands-On Demonstrations in the book.