Prepared exclusively for Silicon Valley M&A Boutique

Curated Deal Flow. Cited Company Memos. Production-Grade.

A tailored strategy to solve your most critical challenges and unlock growth.

📅 June 4, 2026 👤 Prepared by Jason 🔒 Confidential

Where You Are Today

We've taken the time to deeply understand your current situation. Here's what we identified.

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M&A outreach drowns in volume, not signal

Most outbound engines optimize for volume. M&A doesn't. One bad outreach to the wrong founder burns a relationship that takes years to rebuild. The system has to optimize for signal, not throughput — and that shapes every architecture decision downstream.

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AI memos without citations don't pass IC review

A summary pulled from 'general knowledge' is useless for M&A work. Memos need primary sources, dated facts, and a defensible audit trail. That's exactly what Perplexity citations enable — and exactly why you specified Perplexity in the post.

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Modular scenarios fail at the seams

Most Make.com builds are a wall of nodes in one scenario. When something breaks at 3am, you can't debug without a developer. Modular scenarios with clean logging and retry behavior — your stated requirement — are the difference between a system you own and a system you depend on a consultant to maintain.

A curated deal sourcing engine. Cited memos. Production-grade. Fully owned by you.

Daily workflow that queries ICP-matching companies, scores them against your criteria, generates Perplexity-cited memos defensible against IC review, pushes to your CRM with full attribution, and queues approved targets into outbound sequences with configurable human approval gates. Modular Make.com scenarios with retry logic, dead-letter queues, and full logging. Daily digest at 8am Pacific. Every workflow, API key, and account in your name from day one.

Services & Deliverables

Everything you need — built, delivered, and ready to run.

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Phase 1 — ICP + CRM Foundation

  • ICP definition workshop — stage, traction, geography, signals, exclusions
  • CRM recommendation + setup (HubSpot recommended for M&A advisory pipeline reporting)
  • Custom fields, deal stages, pipeline structure aligned to your sourcing workflow
  • Contact + company schema designed for outreach and memo attribution
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Phase 2 — Sourcing + Scoring Engine

  • Daily ICP query against your chosen sources (Apollo, Clay, ZoomInfo, targeted web scraping)
  • AI scoring against ICP criteria with reasoning attached per company
  • Signal detection — funding events, hiring spikes, product launches, leadership changes
  • Idempotent dedup across sources — same company surfaced from multiple channels merged automatically
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Phase 3 — Perplexity-Cited Company Memos

  • Structured memo template aligned to M&A research standards
  • Perplexity API integration with citation extraction and audit trail per source
  • Memo sections: company snapshot, financials, leadership, recent signals, deal angle
  • Citations attached to every memo — defensible against IC review, not hallucinated
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Phase 4 — Outreach + Configurable Approval Gates

  • CRM enrollment with full source attribution and memo linkage
  • Outreach tool integration (Instantly recommended for high-touch, low-volume M&A)
  • Configurable human approval gates — per company, per sequence, per priority tier
  • Reply tracking and engagement flowing back into CRM timeline automatically
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Phase 5 — Logging, Retry, Daily Digest

  • Modular Make.com scenarios — each component separate, each independently loggable
  • Dead-letter queue for failed steps with configurable retry policies
  • Daily digest at 8am Pacific surfacing the day's curated opportunities
  • All accounts, API keys, and workflows transferred to you on day one — full ownership

How We Get There

A clear, phased approach so you always know what's next.

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ICP + CRM Foundation Week 1

ICP workshop, CRM setup, pipeline structure, custom fields, schema aligned to memo + outreach.

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Sourcing + Scoring Week 2

Daily ICP query live across chosen sources, AI scoring with reasoning, signal detection, dedup.

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Perplexity-Cited Memos Week 3

Memo template + Perplexity integration + citation audit trail. Memos defensible against IC review.

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Outreach + Logging + Handoff Week 4

Outreach enrollment, approval gates, daily digest, modular logging, full account/key handoff.

How Your System Works

A visual breakdown of your build — from first touch to close.

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Ready to move forward

Let's get on a call this week.

Send me a few times you're free this week and I'll come ready to walk the architecture, show you a sample Perplexity-cited memo against a real prospect company, and confirm scope against your specific ICP. Happy to share past sourcing builds on the call so you can see the build quality before we discuss commercials.