Matters Graph is purpose built to serve leading private equity investors, lenders, and corporate M&A teams in buyside early, mid and later stage commercial diligence and post investment growth objectives with a genuine crack the case mentality and capability.
The firm is hell bent on helping identify and resolve the critical matters that drive customer intent and behavior and investment return (if the market is conducive and the business wired in advantageous ways serving the right pockets of customers gains will be had).
Matters Graph supports clients with rigorous, evidence-based (both a departure from traditional providers) commercial due diligence, anchored in differentiated insights from the true voice of customer and voice of channel original research and data analysis with a deep commitment to cracking the case. We deeply understand that diligence work product cannot afford to ever be perfunctory, off target or informed from exaggerated experts and the associated sources – as our mandate should serve as a superior lever in your value creation endeavors. The work needs to matter.
Said simply, Matters Graph is a specialist buyside-focused consultancy that provides objective and fact-based diligence for pre and post investment decisions. We help develop and pressure test credible investment thesis and develop earnest value creation plans for private equity and executives driving the plan. We understand and work within the all too competitive reality of formalized processes and help our clients work through strategies to achieve advantaged position relative to other bidders, while providing sober views on what will challenge the business (as they all have challenges) and to best inform the underwriting so that outcome objectives are achievable.
Matters Graph's bespoke and differentiated model brings real world perspective to commercial due diligence—our singular focus is on delivering unbiased strategic advice to achieve twin objectives of:
- making the diligence matter (again, don’t waste resource anymore on what has become perfunctory and regurgitated material); and
- helping our clients be more effective owners/stakeholders.
Matters Graph is built to crack the case, build conviction that is sound, and conduct diligence that matters by:
- Focusing on the buyside (only) and commercial value generation; we maintain a level of integrity in our work
- Sell side or Vendor Due Diligence offerings calls for, and develops very different skills – valuable to facilitate processes, but weakens discerning muscles and inhibits the scrutinous mind
- Exercising process expertise to ensure we learn from people who have business needs that the target company can address, those that are sitting “in seat” using a good or service (or insourcing) and those driving decision holding or fighting for budget
- These are the “experts” that matter
- Matters Graph is expert in evaluation of potential and we will not exaggerate our experiences and dressed up expertise on the end market and industry. Today its easy for us to get the market experts, and we believe that the consultancy should not be pretending it knows the answers. Diligence requires we find and assess the true answers
- Utilizing voice of customer and voice of channel research with exceptionalism to provide a view into what lies ahead for target companies, not just what’s there today
- Voice of Customer is not an exercise, it is a fine art, that demands incredible framing skills, deep listening (for nuance and distinction) and strong business analytics that cannot be reduced to scripts, perfunctory exercises or automation. Humans are humans and diligence requires expertise in discerning human buying behavior
- Cherishing investigative thinking with a flexible, responsive, “fleet of foot” approach
