Meridian Pay: due diligence in 4.2 hours instead of 3 business days
Context
Meridian Pay is a Series B payments company with around 140 employees. Its nine-person investment operations team evaluates partnership and acquisition targets — typically 4 to 6 active targets at a time, each arriving as a data room of 150–300 files. The team works out of Snowflake for financial data, Google Drive for data rooms, and Notion for memo drafting, with deal threads in Slack.
The bottleneck
A standard diligence cycle took 3+ business days. Most of that time was not analysis — it was analysts moving material between data rooms and memo templates, reconciling financial extracts by hand, and the compliance team re-verifying every citation in the finished memo because there was no trail back to source documents. Deals stalled on memo prep, not judgment.
Rollout
- Weeks 1–2Joined the private beta in September 2025. Backtested the strategy agent on six closed deals and compared agent memos against the memos the team had actually written.
- Weeks 3–4Parallel run on live targets: analysts wrote memos as usual while the agent produced its own. Differences were logged and reviewed weekly.
- Weeks 5–6Compliance signed off on the citation-trail format. Agent memos became the first draft of record; analysts moved to review and exceptions.
Measured results
We replaced a 3-day manual due diligence cycle with a 4-hour agent workflow. The citation trails mean our compliance team trusts the output without re-doing the research.