Big 4 firms (Deloitte, KPMG, EY, PwC) and specialised consultancies (Kroll, A&M) provide "Due Diligence as a Service." They sell assurance. You pay a premium for a branded report that your Investment Committee or lenders can rely on. Colabra provides conviction. We are the tool your internal deal team uses to validate the asset before you spend six figures on a Big 4 report.
You hire a Big 4 firm to get a "reliance letter"—a formal report that indemnifies you and satisfies your board or bank. It is a slow, expensive process designed for the final stages of a deal. It is "outsourced conviction."
You use Colabra to get "insider conviction." It is a fast, forensic tool for the early and middle stages. Before you hire the advisors, you run the data room through Colabra to see if the deal is even worth pursuing. We help you kill bad deals fast, saving the advisory fees for the winners.
An advisory report takes 2-4 weeks to produce. In a competitive auction, you don't have that time. Colabra gives you a "Red Flag" view of the target in hours. You can submit a smarter IOI (Indication of Interest) while your competitors are still waiting for their consultants to staff the project.
Advisory DD is a black box. You send the data away and get a sanitised report back. You rarely see the raw work. Colabra is transparent. You see the raw flags, the missing documents, and the specific clauses yourself. You build an intuitive feel for the asset that you can never get from reading a third-party summary.
Advisors charge high fixed fees ($50k-$200k+). If the deal dies, that money is gone. Colabra is a software licence. You can run diligence on dozens of potential targets for a fraction of the cost of a single advisory engagement, allowing you to look at more deals with better data.