Read every deal.
Remember every deal.
Win every deal.
An AI that has read every document in your data room. A memory that recalls every prior deal you’ve evaluated. Encrypted partner chat, in-platform video, and a counterparty portal so the deal never leaves the system. So you win the deals you should win — and pass faster on the rest.
The economics of complex deals just changed.
Reading every document in a data room used to take an analyst three days. With the right system it now takes ninety seconds, and the system never gets tired or distracted. Funds that adopt this now will out-execute funds that don't.
The rate cycle, refinancing walls of 2026-2028, and post-COVID restructurings are producing opportunity at a pace generic CRMs cannot triage. The fund that captures and prioritises signal fastest wins.
A distressed company is identifiable in a court filing six weeks before it shows up in trade press. Kerdour turns that six-week window into a structural origination edge — before everyone else gets the same press release.
You’re paying for software you don’t use.
The generic deal CRM was built for generalist PE. Relationship-graph tools are contact lists with deal tags bolted on. Fund-admin platforms address reporting, not deal making. None of them know what a hard veto is, none of them read your data room, none of them remember your last deal in the same sector.
A teaser PDF in your inbox. A name on a Companies House filing. An intermediary on a Tuesday call. The work to make it a coherent record is what kills your week.
Three years in, you've looked at 200 deals. Most of that experience lives in Slack threads, your head, and a few partner-only Notion pages. The next similar opportunity arrives with zero context.
Generic AI assistants don't have your data room. Bolt-on AI features in legacy CRMs don't know your decision tree. None of them can cite the precedent from the deal you passed on two years ago.
The core surfaces. One workflow.
Origination, triage, diligence, decision, and memory — in one system, in the order you actually work them.
Everything happens inside Kerdour.
Most funds run their work over WhatsApp, Zoom, and Dropbox links. Half the deal record ends up in three different places, none of them confidential. Kerdour gives you the three primitives you actually need — partner chat, video meetings, and a counterparty portal — built into the deal record so nothing leaks.
Authenticated partner-to-partner messaging with per-deal rooms, real-time delivery, read receipts, and unread badges on the pipeline. Replace WhatsApp groups with something the fund actually owns.
- →Per-deal and private rooms
- →Real-time SSE delivery, typing indicators
- →No third-party server, no message escrow
Schedule a video meeting from any deal page. Send a guest link to an intermediary or counterparty — no account needed. Sessions are recorded, transcribed, and attached back to the deal record automatically.
- →Hero pill on every deal: next meeting + join
- →Magic-link guest invites, no signup
- →Transcripts indexed by the deal co-pilot
A magic-link portal that gives an intermediary, lender, or management team access to exactly the document categories you decide — not the rest. They can also upload requested docs straight into the deal’s data room.
- →Per-category access matrix (18 categories)
- →Token-revocable, audit-logged
- →Uploads land tagged in the data room
Chat, video, and the portal all run on Kerdour infrastructure under your fund’s subdomain. No Slack, no Zoom, no Microsoft, no shared SaaS multi-tenant. The fund controls the data the moment a counterparty touches it.
A normal week, the way it should run.
A mid-cap industrial in one of your watched sectors goes into administration. The signal hits your screen with severity, watchlist match, and one-click 'create deal'. You're working on it before the trade press picks it up.
An advisor forwards a 12-page teaser. The system reads the company name, matches it to your in-progress diligence at 97% confidence, attaches it to the deal, and saves the document to the data room.
Before you open the deal page, the AI has summarised every document, flagged the change-of-control clause in the senior facility, and drafted the three commercial questions you should put back to the intermediary.
You schedule a meeting from the deal page; the management team gets a guest link with no signup. The call is recorded, transcribed, and indexed by the co-pilot before the call ends. The transcript is searchable next to the data room.
The senior lender needs to see the financial model and legal pack — nothing else. One click issues a portal link with access to those two categories only. They upload their NDA back into the right folder. Nothing in email.
On the new deal, the system flags a 78%-similar deal you rejected in 2024. You re-read the rejection rationale in fifteen seconds and decide whether the same logic applies.
You message your co-partner inside Kerdour: 'thoughts on the indemnity cap?' They reply from the deal page. Read receipts. Unread badges. The thread lives on the deal record — not on someone’s phone.
The recommendation memo for tomorrow's investment committee pulls from the live deal record: scoring, decision tree, data-room state, AI extractions, meeting transcripts. You spend the evening editing the thesis, not assembling the document.
The fund that compounds three years of memory wins.
Every action becomes context for the next deal. Source signals feed the pipeline. Pipeline work feeds the data room. The data room feeds the co-pilot. Decisions become precedents. Precedents change what the next signal means.
After fifty deals, the system knows which catalysts close, which intermediaries deliver, which sectors actually convert. Every new opportunity is evaluated against that body of memory before you spend time on it. Three years of compounding becomes a structural advantage no incumbent can match.
Purpose-built. Not retrofitted.
Most deal-management software was built more than a decade ago, for generalist PE, without any AI assumption. Adding AI on top of that data model is not a patch — it’s a rebuild. We started from the AI assumption.
The tools the deal team actually opens.
Court filings, insolvency registers, gazettes, news — across UK and Europe.
Forwarded intermediary email auto-routes to the right deal.
Table or Kanban. Multi-currency. Inline edit. Sortable filters.
Claude with full deal context. Reads every document. Surfaces red flags.
18 categories. AI extraction. Tag editing. Standard request checklist.
15 criteria, radar visualisation, recommendation bands, hard vetoes.
Encrypted partner-to-partner chat. Per-deal rooms. Real-time. No third-party server.
Self-hosted video, guest invites, recordings, transcripts indexed by the deal co-pilot.
Magic-link access to chosen data-room categories. Token-revocable. Upload back into the deal.
Per-deal counterparty records — name, role, phone, email, location, LinkedIn.
Cross-deal pattern recall with live outcomes — closed, rejected, monitor.
Live headlines per deal in the right locale — UK, US, FR, DE, IT, ES, NL.
A-F grade per intermediary. Close rate, score, capital introduced.
One-click lookup of company filings. Covers UK, Germany, Netherlands, France, and Italy.
Live-generated from the deal record. Pulls scoring, decision tree, and AI extractions. No version drift.
Aggregated deadlines from intake, data room, and stage ageing.
Run your fund the way
you always wanted to.
Kerdour is live. Real-company demo data is pre-loaded so you can walk every feature in context. Log in and see whether it would have changed how your last deal went.
No demo loop. No sales call required. The full product is one sign-in away.