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Hebrides and general AI assistants for due diligence
Most investment teams already use a general assistant such as ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot. It is the alternative we meet most often. This page sets out what changes when the deal itself runs in Hebrides.
Where a general assistant is the right tool
For a quick question, a first summary of a single document or a draft email, a general assistant is fast and good. Hebrides does not try to replace it for that.
Where the deal needs more
A data room is forty documents that have to agree with each other. The problems that kill deals sit between them: the customer on slide 4 who is not in the customer list, the revenue figure that moved between the model and the management accounts. Finding those means reading every document against every other, and showing where each number came from.
Hebrides keeps each deal as one record. It reads the whole room, lists contradictions with both values and their sources, and footnotes every figure to the file, page and passage. The valuation, the forecast and the IC memo are built from that same record, so nothing is re-keyed and every figure can be traced.
Side by side
| Measure | General AI assistant | Hebrides |
|---|---|---|
| Starting point | What you paste or upload into a conversation | The whole data room, kept as one deal and updated as new files arrive |
| Cross-checking | Possible if you ask for it, document by document | Every claim checked across the documents; contradictions listed with both values and their sources |
| Sources | Depends on the prompt and the tool | Every figure footnoted to the file, page and passage |
| Valuation and forecasting | Whatever you build in the conversation | The Valuation Suite with Dealroom comparables, and Mayar forecasts with a published backtest |
| Output | Text in a chat window, to be copied out | The IC memo, deck or portfolio update in your own template, footnotes kept |
| Who can see the deal | Whoever has access to that account or conversation | Access set per portfolio and per deal, every action logged |
| Your data | Set by each assistant’s own terms and your plan | Never used to train models, hosted on AWS in the UK, deleted within six months of the contract ending |
Confidentiality
Companies sharing a data room want to know where their documents go. In Hebrides, access is set per portfolio and per deal, every action is logged, and client data is never used to train models. Hebrides holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001:2022. Your data and the output.
Questions
We already pay for an AI assistant. Why add Hebrides?
An assistant answers the question in front of it. Hebrides keeps the whole deal: every document read against the others, every figure cited, the valuation and the memo built from the same record, with access set per deal.
Is Hebrides just a wrapper around a general model?
Hebrides uses large language models to read documents. What it adds is the structure around them: the deal record, cross-document checks, the citation to each passage, the valuation methods, Dealroom data and the Mayar forecasting model.
Can we keep using our assistant alongside Hebrides?
Yes. Many teams use a general assistant for quick questions and run the deal itself in Hebrides.
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ChatGPT, Claude and Microsoft Copilot are trade marks of their owners. This page describes Hebrides; for how any assistant handles your data, read its own terms.
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