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Anvil is the diligence OS for deal teams. Assess the target, quantify the integration cost, and deliver investment-committee-ready intelligence, from first look to full integration.

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Private Equity · Corporate Dev · Operating Partners · M&A Advisors · CISOs
Fig. 01Live deal · Meridian Cloud
anvil.thepylongroup.com / deals / meridian-cloud
Anvil deal overview: deal score, findings, top risks, and stack inventory
Findings
5419 crit / high
Deal scoreMeridian Cloud
D
61/100Material risk. Price it in or walk.
F D C B A
Built for the people in the deal Private Equity Corporate Dev Operating Partners M&A Advisors CISOs
▲ The deal score

One number the
committee trusts.

Anvil rolls security posture, software risk, vendor exposure, and integration readiness into a single 100-point composite, weighted to your thesis, and resolved to a letter your IC reads at a glance.

A
90 to 100Clean. Mature controls, low integration drag.
B
80 to 89Solid with known gaps, priced and planned.
C
70 to 79Workable, with gaps to price in.
D
60 to 69Material risk. Remediation in the model.
F
0 to 59Deal-shaping issues. Renegotiate or walk.
N
Northwind SystemsComposite score
Weighted to thesis
D
64 / 100 Material risk. Remediation priced into the model.
Security postureWEIGHT 35%57
Software riskWEIGHT 25%68
Vendor exposureWEIGHT 20%61
Integration readinessWEIGHT 20%74
F D C B A
▲ The problem

M&A diligence is broken.

Two-week deep dives that miss the integration risk. Slide decks instead of artifacts. Spreadsheets that don't survive the next deal.

2 to 6 wks
Average time from data-room access to IC-ready intelligence.
60%+
Of M&A value erosion traces back to missed or mispriced integration cost.
30%
Of breaches involve third parties, including the ones you just inherited.
Verizon 2025 DBIR
Hudson AI · Now in beta

Diligence that
listens.

Switch on ambient transcription and Hudson follows the management interview live, matching what's said against the data room, then proposing a rating for every control with the evidence already attached.

Ambient transcription BetaHudson transcribes the live call in real time, no recordings to review, no notes to chase.
Suggested ratingsFor each control, a proposed rating drawn from the conversation and the evidence in the room.
Always traceableEvery suggestion links back to the transcript moment and the artifact. You approve each write.
Transcribing Transcription · Beta
CC6.2 · SOC 2 TYPE II
Manages Credentials & Authentication
Deal team "How do you handle credential rotation across the platform?"
Target · CTO "We rotate every 90 days, but there's no written policy enforcing it yet."
Hudson suggests 87% confidence
Partialwas: not assessed
Rotation occurs but isn't documented, so CC6.2 is partially met. Source: live call + 2 data-room artifacts.
▸ transcript · SOC2.pdf · IAM-policy.md
▲ How it works

From first look to full integration.

Six modules, one workspace. Click any module to jump in, or hover to step through the deal.

anvil.thepylongroup.com / pipeline
Active deal pipeline with stages, scores and portfolio summary
Portfolio score
73avg
4 live deals · next close Aug 5
SOC 2 Type II assessment with Hudson score and transcription
Control coverage
29passing
13 gaps · 0 N/A
SBOM analysis with AI risk summary and top vulnerability
Top CVE
9.8CVSS · RCE
CVE-2023-50447 · fix 10.2.0
Deal economics with savings, payback and drivers
Annual savings
$505k4-mo payback
Due diligence intelligence report with executive summary
AI exec summary
33findings
6 critical · IC-ready
Integration planning roadmap
Roadmap
Day 1 to 100
4 phases · auto-built from findings
Active pipeline · sample data
▲ The rest of the workspace

Everything the deal touches, in one place.

Data room with AI document-to-risk pipeline
DATA ROOM

Documents in, risks out.

Drop a security architecture PDF; AI surfaces the risks as suggested findings in 30 seconds.
Inherited vendor relationship mapping
VENDORS

The target's vendors become yours.

Map every inherited third party, assess criticality and spend, decide disposition before Day 1.
NDA-gated target data room portal
TARGET PORTAL

Give the target a secure room.

A magic link, an NDA gate, watermarked PDFs, and a full access audit trail, no account, no VPN.
▲ The lifecycle

One workspace, from first look to Day 100.

Diligence doesn't end at signing. Anvil stays with the deal, no context lost at handoff, no spreadsheet that dies after close.

01
Pre-LOI screening
A two-day or two-week sprint to surface deal-killers before you commit. Stack inventory, posture snapshot, vendor map.
02
Confirmatory diligence
Deep dive on signed deals. Control assessments, SBOM analysis, policy comparison, IC-ready report.
03
Integration planning
Findings auto-organize into a four-phase roadmap. Vendor dispositions, cost estimates, accepted risks, all logged.
04
Post-close execution
Same workspace, now driving Day 1 through Day 100. Phase progress, residual findings, monthly reporting.
Pre-LOI to Day 100 One workspace runs the full deal lifecycle. No context lost at handoff.
▲ The team

Built by a CISO. Not a software company.

Built by practitioners who run M&A tech and security diligence. The features ship because we needed them to do the work, on real deals, under real timelines.

▲ See it

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