Mergerly: The first AI Analyst for M&A Deal Origination

Working in M&A advisory in Italy, I kept hitting the same wall: the tools available were either absurdly expensive (AIDA/PitchBook at €18K+/year per seat) or completely disconnected. Excel for screening, manual Chamber of Commerce lookups, PowerPoint for reports, emails for outreach, and a CRM nobody updates. Smaller boutiques were priced out entirely, spending 30+ hours on a single longlist. Mergerly puts the entire deal origination workflow into one AI-powered platform: screen 300K+ Italian companies, score targets, build longlists, run deep analysis, manage the pipeline, and draft outreach, at a price a solo advisor can afford. We started thinking we were building "a cheaper AIDA," but quickly realized the real gap wasn't data, it's workflow. What M&A professionals need isn't another database, it's a tool that takes them from first screening to first contact in hours instead of weeks.