Dealroom

Documents scattered across email, shared drives, attorney desktops, and filing cabinets — paralegal can't find the key document when it's needed for court or a deposition

Banking partner closing a $500M syndicated loan has 200+ conditions precedent tracked in a shared spreadsheet — counterparty counsel, borrower's team, and three syndicate members each maintain their own version, nobody knows in real-time which CPs are satisfied, and the paralegal spends an entire day before every status call manually reconciling five different trackers

In-house IP team at a tech company files 200+ patent applications per year and each one takes a patent agent 40-60 hours to draft from the inventor disclosure — the bottleneck isn't the invention, it's the labour-intensive process of writing specifications, claims, and figures that meet USPTO requirements, while the patent agent's queue grows faster than they can work through it

Arbitration hearing runs 8 hours with witnesses speaking in accented English across three time zones — the traditional court reporter charges $5,000/day and the transcript arrives 48 hours later with terminology errors that counsel has to fix before it's usable for post-hearing briefs

Sell-side M&A advisor managing a competitive auction has 8 bidder groups accessing the data room simultaneously — needs to know which bidders are seriously engaged vs just browsing, but the VDR only shows raw download counts with no way to distinguish tyre-kickers from serious buyers, so the advisor can't counsel the seller on which bidders to prioritise in negotiations

Corporate development team running 8 simultaneous acquisition evaluations tracks deal status, team assignments, and timelines across separate spreadsheets and email threads — a deal falls through the cracks when the analyst leaves and nobody picks up the diligence workstream