Due diligence is the part of a deal clients value least — and it was costing the firm the most.
For Matthew, a partner at an AmLaw firm, buy-side due diligence was a bind. Clients treat it as a box to tick — essential, but not what they want to pay for — so to deliver it to the firm's standard at a price they'd accept, he was writing down the long hours his associates poured into it. The work mattered; the economics didn't. So Alaro took the whole exercise off his desk.
Written-down hours
Stretched associates on diligence the client wouldn't fully pay for
One fixed fee
A complete DD report with unlimited follow-ups — associates back on revenue work
Alaro took the diligence exercise off the firm entirely.
Diligence has to be done well — but it's high-effort, low-margin work, and a lean firm only has so many senior associates. On a live buy-side deal, Matthew's team was stretched across exactly the work clients are least willing to pay a premium for, while the documents that actually move a deal waited. To hold the relationship and deliver to standard, the partner absorbed the difference himself.
So Alaro took it on. The firm onboarded Alaro to how they run diligence — what to look for in the documents, how each workstream is scoped, and exactly how they want the report to read. Then Alaro ran the buy-side exercise itself and delivered a red-flag report in the firm's own style, with unlimited follow-ups for a single fixed fee the client had already agreed to pay. Check this, confirm that, reconcile the seller's responses.
The firm shows Alaro how it runs diligence
Alaro runs the buy-side exercise in the firm's own style
A red-flag report, unlimited follow-ups, one fixed fee
An interactive diligence report — the deal, not just the document.
Alaro didn't just send a report. Alaro gave Matthew's team a live view of the deal: the red-flag report beside the data room itself. Every point in the report is a citation they can click straight through to the source — opening the document at the exact line Alaro quotes. And they could ask as many follow-up questions as the deal needed, all on the same fixed fee.
Risks, ranked — issue, consequence, fix
Every point is a live citation
Opens the VDR at the exact line
Alaro doesn't sell a tool. Alaro takes the workflow off your desk and delivers the outcome.
Because Alaro works on a fixed fee, Alaro's incentive is to do the diligence properly and efficiently — not to bill more hours. The work still meets the firm's standard and the client's price, and the partner gets his associates back for the high-value, deal-winning work. The diligence stops being a cost the firm absorbs and becomes a margin it can keep.
