Earlier this year, Datasite announced the acquisition of Valu8 and the intention to combine Grata and Valu8 to give customers full market visibility at a truly international scale. We’re now taking one step further with the launch of Grata Intelligence.
The way M&A work is being carried out is changing fast. Dealmakers have more information than ever before and are under pressure to find more of the right opportunities, make better decisions faster, and get more deals done. But the way deal work happens today is fragmented and makes it difficult to consistently focus time and resources where they will have the greatest impact.
Grata Intelligence was built to solve those constraints. Valu8's and Grata's deep, proprietary data sets are now combined with Blueflame, Datasite’s agentic AI platform for dealmakers and investment firms, into one agentic workspace, purpose-built for M&A.
This gives you as a dealmaker unparalleled insight on where to focus, while agentic capabilities widely expands your capacity to act.
Valu8 will continue to be live, and customers will be able to use the platform to search, compare, screen and map private companies to uncover deal opportunities. If you want to get the full functionality of the agentic M&A workspace, you will have the option to transition to Grata Intelligence.
We’ve spent 16 years building Valu8 into one of Europe’s deepest sources of private market intelligence. That work is not being left behind, and that data is not being lost. We’re taking everything we’ve built and putting it into a much bigger platform. With Grata Intelligence, you will be able to do everything you do in Valu8 – and a lot more.
You are also getting access to Grata’s proprietary market data and seller intent signals, as well as agentic AI built specifically for M&A work, that can retrieve, reason, analyze, and act to execute complex, multi-step M&A workflows across the entire deal lifecycle.
The way Grata Intelligence works is by taking proprietary data and context that inform work, pairing it with AI built for M&A that helps dealmakers execute complex work, and combine them into one unified environment that supports dealmakers across the deal lifecycle.
With natural language prompts, dealmakers can build target lists, identify similar companies, track markets, theses, portfolios, ownership, and transaction signals. Customizable labels and notes make it easy to tailor the workspace tospecific needs, share information, delegate tasks, and keep everyone on the same page as deals progress.
Every workflow is informed by proprietary market data and seller intent signals, internal firm knowledge, connected third-party sources, transaction data, and evolving deal context that are connected within the workspace, enabling dealmakers and Blueflame to work from the same evolving understanding as opportunities and deals progress.
As the relevant data and context are already integrated and available to the agent, Blueflame can spend less time searching for and assembling information and more time reasoning over it and executing work with greater speed and continuity, and at a lower cost than generic models.
The result? Grata Intelligence enables dealmakers and teams to identify opportunities sooner, make more informed decisions, and increase their capacity to execute more of the required work to move deals forward.
Grata Intelligence supports dealmakers across the M&A lifecycle, with capabilities spanning sourcing, research, diligence, execution, and monitoring:
Interested in learning more about the new agentic M&A workspace and how it transforms work for dealmakers? Book a demo.
What is Grata Intelligence?
Grata Intelligence is the agentic M&A workspace that helps dealmakers focus on the right opportunities and expand their capacity to act across the entire deal lifecycle so they can get more, better deals done. It brings together Grata’s proprietary market data and signals, firm knowledge, VDR content, and evolving deal context with Blueflame, Datasite’s M&A agent.
What is an agentic M&A workspace?
An agentic M&A workspace is a unified environment that brings together the proprietary data, context, and workflows dealmakers need to focus on the right opportunities and execute work across the deal lifecycle. Connected data and context inform decisions, while AI built for M&A helps execute the work that follows.
What are the core components of Grata Intelligence?
Grata Intelligence combines two core components: a connected M&A data foundation that brings together differentiated proprietary data and signals, firm knowledge, VDR content, and evolving deal context; and AI built for M&A, with Blueflame retrieving, reasoning, analyzing, and acting across that foundation to execute complex, multi-step M&A workflows.
What is Blueflame?
Blueflame is Datasite’s M&A agent and the AI agent within Grata Intelligence. It is designed to understand and execute complex M&A work across the deal lifecycle. Rather than simply answering questions or generating text, Blueflame can take a natural-language prompt and orchestrate the right models, files, data, tools, and skills to execute multi-step workflows. Grata Intelligence launches with Blueflame 5.1.
What is evolving deal context, and how is it used as a deal progresses?
Evolving deal context is the information and knowledge generated as an opportunity or deal progresses. It can include research and prior analysis, deal documents, chats, new diligence findings, and outputs produced during the process. Grata Intelligence helps preserve that context so dealmakers and Blueflame can work from an increasingly complete understanding rather than repeatedly reconstructing the history of an opportunity.