Validated outcomes, delivered on a cadence you can set your board calendar to
BowMerge runs as one engine with three layers that never blur: AI extraction, expert validation, and your judgment. Here's what that looks like on a real deal.
Three layers. One standard: defensible.
Extraction: AI
The AI ingests your IC memo, data room, and 100-day plan, then connects to what the portco already runs: ERP, HRIS, CRM, even the spreadsheets that carry the first 90 days. It drafts the integration plan, synergy targets by workstream, milestone schedule, and EBITDA-ranked risk flags. It never touches your systems in write mode, and it is never the final word.
Validation: BowMerge
A BowMerge expert with PE judgment reviews every AI output before it reaches you. A synergy target that was modeled in to clear committee gets flagged. A milestone that ignores the portco's operating reality gets corrected. Every correction makes the engine sharper on the next deal, which is why deal ten is faster and cheaper than deal one.
Consumption: You
You receive finished deliverables with provenance on every figure: its source, who validated it, and when the data was pulled. The judgment calls stay exactly where they belong, with you: what to prioritize, what to tell portco leadership, what to escalate.
Four rhythms, from close to exit
Kickoff & 100-Day Plan
Your IC memo becomes a validated integration plan at close. Synergy commitments, workstreams, milestones: ranked by EBITDA impact, checked by a human who knows what committee math looks like. Have a playbook you already trust? It's in your account the same day: templates included.
Drift Signals
We monitor portco data against thesis commitments and flag variance the moment it crosses threshold: confirmed, contextualized, and ranked before it reaches your inbox.
Board Narrative
A board-ready story built from live tracking data: where you are vs. thesis, what's captured, what's at risk, and what happens next. Formatted to your firm's standard.
LP / IC Review
Aggregate synergy capture across active deals, deal-level status, and cross-portfolio risk, the validated narrative your LPs can interrogate and you can defend.
Starting is the easy part
Live the same day
Engagements typically start the same day the contract is signed. From day one we work with your point of contact on playbook needs and on defining what success looks like, so the target is agreed before the work begins.
Onboarding is on us
Onboarding support is included: it's how we prefer to work, because it gets you to results faster. We handle setup, data ingestion, and mapping. Your team's week-one lift is a kickoff call and document access. There's no adoption fight, because there's nothing to adopt.
Founders, not a helpdesk
You work directly with the founders and an engineering lead, the people accountable for your outcome. Support is included at no additional cost, with availability windows set to your time zone, including extended coverage for UK and European teams.
Yes, there's a real platform. Our team runs it for you.
BowMerge is built on our own AI platform: synergy tracking, integration timelines, portfolio views, and report generation. The difference from every PMI tool you've demoed: you never configure it, populate it, or chase people to update it. Our team operates it on your behalf and hands you the output.
- Synergy tracker: targets, owners, and realization measured against the gap between modeled and captured.
- Integration timeline: milestone-level visibility across every workstream; slippage surfaces early.
- Portfolio view: all active deals in one place, prioritized by where the risk is highest.
- Report generation: partner- and LP-ready narratives assembled from live data, not weekend spreadsheet sessions.
- Collaboration built in: in-platform messaging and comments, tasks assigned directly to owners, and scoped viewer roles so lawyers, lenders, and co-investors see what they need. No per-seat licences, ever.
We meet your portcos where they are
Lower middle-market portcos are rarely run with PE reporting hygiene on day one: inconsistent charts of accounts, payroll disconnected from accounting, revenue in spreadsheets. A platform on NetSuite and an add-on still on QuickBooks. We designed for that reality, not around it.
BowMerge normalizes across whatever your portcos run (multiple ERPs, HRIS systems, CRMs, and the inevitable spreadsheets) into a single, defensible EBITDA bridge view, without forcing anyone to standardize systems first. When a portco migrates from QuickBooks to NetSuite in month two, your historical data doesn't break. And the vintage of every data pull is visible next to every number, always.
Deliverables arrive where you already work: email, Teams, or Slack, and the platform runs in any browser, desktop or mobile, with nothing for anyone to install. Microsoft 365 and SharePoint connectors are on the active roadmap.
See it on your own deal
Bring us a past deal, and we'll show you what BowMerge would have caught in week two.
See BowMerge in Action