Meridian M&A — Pitch Overview
A diligence-grade web app that replaces tangled Excel workbooks and gives M&A teams + clients a shared, auditable workflow from LOI to delivery.
What's inside this pitch
Recurring vs. one-time, retention overlay, mix shift — the views buyers and lenders both look at first.
Open →AR / AP / Inventory roll plus peg-band actuals — what closes the deal at signing.
Open →Historical actuals + forecast cone. Brushable D3 for ad-hoc windows the diligence team will want.
Open →Permissioned folders, multi-party invites, watermarking, audit log — built for diligence and verification.
Open →The full deal flow with owners, SLAs, and a throughput chart showing where time is lost today.
Open →Where the LLM lives, what it sees, and what it never sees. Pick local, our private API, or bring your own keys.
Open →How we build, who logs in (and how), and why your monthly stack costs almost nothing.
Open →Slab's meetings stack — transcription, tags, shares, notes, action items — wired straight into your Meridian deals. No Otter, no Zoom AI Companion harvesting your call audio.
Open →Problem we're solving
Today's deal flow lives in stacked Excel files emailed between partners, target operators, lenders, and counsel. Versions diverge, links break, and the Quality of Revenue / NWC story is only as good as the last person to touch the workbook. Meridian needs the same speed Excel gives the diligence team — with a permissioned, multi-user web layer underneath and a verifiable audit trail on every cell.
Our approach
- Workbooks as schemas: We ingest your existing diligence workbooks and lock the formulas behind typed schemas, so the spreadsheet logic survives but the data lives in Postgres/Mongo.
- Role-aware data room: Folder + document level access, granular invites, watermarking, full audit log — built for sellers, buyers, lenders, and counsel on one stack.
- Verification pipelines: Source documents tied to derived numbers; reviewers approve at the cell level. Numbers carry provenance to the final IC memo.
- Custom + sovereign: Runs on MadLadsLab infra (or yours). Your data does not leave the perimeter you choose.
Also from MadLadsLab
Same stack pays off for the rest of your business too. Sites, DNS, chatbots, content — same no-3rd-party, no-harvesting principle, same per-hour rate.
DNS for business
5.8× cheaperYour domain actually working — email, calendar, subdomains, the lot.
- DNS audit + cleanup
- MX / SPF / DKIM / DMARC so email stops landing in spam
- Per-product subdomain provisioning
- Auto-renew certs, no surprises
Website
6.9× cheaperReal site on our stack — fast, SEO-clean, no third-party tracking.
- Custom design (not a SquareSpace template)
- You own the code + content
- No CMS subscription, no platform fees
- Same stack as your tools, easy to extend later
Chatbot
6.7× cheaperOn-prem chatbot for your site or internal teams. Trained on your docs.
- RAG over your knowledge base
- Per-source citations on every answer
- Optional human handoff
- Runs local or on MLL's private inference — zero harvesting
Blogging & content
5.8× cheaperYour domain, your voice, scheduled publishing, no Substack rev-share.
- Markdown + WYSIWYG editor
- Scheduled publishing + drafts
- Built-in RSS + newsletter outbound
- SEO-clean, no third-party tags
Firm vs. MLL: Firm price = blended estimate from a typical mid-tier dev/consulting shop, $200–$275/hr range, with overhead, project management, account management.