The most common alternative to Colabra is "doing nothing"—viewing PDFs in the VDR, taking notes in Word, and emailing issues to the team. This process fragments your intelligence. Colabra unifies it. We turn the scattered noise of a deal into a single, defensible signal.
In the traditional workflow, the evidence is in the VDR, the analysis is in a Word doc, the Q&A is in a spreadsheet, and the debate is in email. To understand a single risk, you have to triage four different systems. It is impossible to get a "whole deal" view.
Colabra brings the evidence, the analysis, and the discussion into one view. You comment directly on the clause. You assign the risk to a team member within the platform. The Q&A is linked to the document. You have one source of truth for the investment decision.
When a 500-file dump lands at 8pm, the "VDR + Email" method requires you to open every file manually. It is physical labour. Colabra automates the triage. We index, categorise, and flag the new files instantly, so you start your review with a prioritised list, not a blank folder.
When the deal closes (or dies), the intelligence in your emails disappears. You cannot easily search "how did we handle that indemnity issue last year?" Colabra builds a permanent archive of your firm's diligence history, making every future deal smarter than the last.