With ACG’s Demo Days, Choosing an AI Solution Just Got Easier
Six companies demonstrated their artificial intelligence-enabled solutions for ACG members in the first installment of ACG Demo Days
Artificial intelligence has enabled a host of new services designed to help dealmakers and business operators move faster, make better decisions, and drive greater returns.
But with so many offerings on the market, who has time to evaluate them all?
To address that problem and make it easier to analyze available options, ACG hosted its first-ever Demo Days event, focused on providers of AI solutions tailored for the middle market. Six companies presented their services to participating ACG members on Oct. 21 during 20-minute demos, hosted virtually.
Registered viewers were able to log on to watch product demonstrations, ask questions of company leaders, and see firsthand the AI-driven offerings on the market—and how they can help solve day-to-day challenges for M&A professionals and middle-market companies.
Event Recap
WHAT: ACG Demo Days
WHEN: Oct. 21
THE TAKEAWAY: ACG members had the chance to get acquainted with six artificial intelligence-enabled solutions for M&A dealmakers during this virtual event.
Below is a snapshot of the six participating AI solutions providers, in their own words.
Blueflame AI
About Blueflame AI
Blueflame AI is an agentic AI platform purpose-built for dealmakers and investment firms. Now part of Datasite, Blueflame empowers faster, better decisions via role‑aware workflow automation and a unified data fabric—with enterprise security and compliance built-in.
Based in New York City with an office in London, Blueflame supports more than 2,000 users globally across 100 clients in both public and private markets.
Who is Blueflame AI for?
Mid to large alternative investment managers (PE, private credit) and investment banks seeking AI solutions to enhance efficiency across investment and operations teams. Ideal users range from analysts to partners.
Learn more: blueflame.ai
Plainr
About Plainr
Plainr provides real-time growth and alpha signals to private markets deal and value creation teams, as well as CFOs of PE-backed businesses.
Without Plainr, teams are spending more than 50% of their time hunting for signals manually, which costs at least $1 million per year. With Plainr, teams get instant signals that help them to uncover business, operational, team, and industry risks and opportunities, and more.
Start by getting your private data catalogued on Plainr. Then move to concise analysis, interact with your analyzed reports using the firm’s specialized trained agents and AI system. Finally, access Plainr’s Signals from proprietary alternative data to uncover real-time business, operational, team, and industry risks and opportunities.
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Who is Plainr for?
Plainr empowers deal and value creation teams and portfolio company CFOs with real-time alpha signals to spot growth and alpha opportunities. Start with cataloguing your private data using our agents, and transform data on companies into analyzed reports. Access heat maps for new deals and ongoing opportunities dynamically. Access growth and alpha signals from Plainr’s proprietary alternative data to spot trends and opportunities ahead of time.
Learn more: plainr.io
ServiceWave
About ServiceWave
ServiceWave is an AI-driven due diligence platform designed to make acquiring companies faster and smarter. It quickly sifts through contracts, financials, and compliance documents to spot risks and key insights without the usual hassle. The platform automates heavy lifting like document review and flags potential issues, so you can focus on the deal’s bigger picture—negotiation, valuation, and integration. It’s like having a super-efficient assistant that cuts down errors and speeds up the entire due diligence process, giving you confidence in every decision.
Who is ServiceWave for?
ServiceWave’s ideal customer is a small-to-large-sized private equity firm, corporate development team, or M&A advisory firm seeking to streamline and enhance their acquisition process. They value efficiency, accuracy, and data-driven insights in due diligence. They handle multiple deals simultaneously and want to reduce manual review time while minimizing risks, and they prioritize tools that integrate AI to accelerate decision-making with confidence and precision.
Learn more: servicewave.net
Solvea
About Solvea
Solvea is an AI-native commercial due diligence service that has delivered multiple buy- and sell-side market studies for private equity funds.
Founded by ex-PE investors who understand how sponsors think, Solvea distills findings into actionable insights tailored to your deal stage and investment style.
Solvea is powered by ex-Big Tech engineers who built the company’s proprietary AI agents, giving Solvea the speed and efficiency to extract insights from the deepest sources of private market data.
Solvea’s services are delivered by ex-MBB consultants who bring strategic business judgment to every engagement. We don’t data-dump—we move at deal speed to craft data-led narratives you can trust.
Who is Solvea for?
Private equity firms that currently engage external commercial diligence/market study consultants for buy-side processes that value structured, thoughtful commercial analyses leveraging deep private market data.
Solvea’s clients also include sell-side investment bankers who work with founder/owner-led businesses with private equity as a potential buyer. We work hand-in-hand with companies to deliver detailed vendor diligence.
Learn more: solvea.ai
SparkWise Solutions by Ducker Carlisle
About SparkWise
At SparkWise Solutions by Ducker Carlisle, we leverage the most advanced AI technologies to create tech solutions, primarily AI agents, perfectly tailored to your portfolio companies, your funds, and their unique challenges. With more than a decade of expertise from our founders, who come from Google and Artefact (an AI startup recently valued at $1.1 billion), we combine deep industry knowledge with technical and AI expertise. Powered by a unique tech product specialty, we boost value creation, drive adoption, and provide growth achievers with the tools and solutions they love.
Who is SparkWise for?
Ideal clients are portfolio companies with revenues between $50 million and $3 billion that seek to leverage AI to increase their valuation multiples and EBITDA. These companies recognize the disruptive potential of AI but face challenges in attracting and securing the right AI expertise to successfully navigate and reshape their business.
Learn more: duckercarlisle.com/services/sparkwise-solutions
Udu
About udu
udu Source is the only AI-powered deal sourcing platform that brings together live dynamic web searching, analysis using machine learning (ML), and complete data privacy in an easy-to-use package. udu Source learns what your optimal deal sourcing targets look like while searching through thousands of data sources to isolate the best matches to your criteria.
The new, streamlined platform provides workflows and automations that make building a project faster than ever.
udu search—combined with data collection and AI methodology—will find and surface the hardest-to-find targets in any industry.
Get started in seconds with some example target websites and a search term; udu learns from the feedback you provide on results and automates the activity for the future.
Who is udu for?
Business development teams at private equity investors, their portfolio companies, buy/sell-side advisors, and investment bankers all use udu Source to accelerate growth by leveraging AI to automate the search, discovery, and initial analysis of new prospects.
Learn more: udu.co
The next ACG Demo Days event will take place on Jan. 21, 2026, with a focus on deal solutions for the middle market. Save the date, and check acg.org in the coming weeks for more details and registration information.
Katie Maloney is ACG’s Vice President, Communications & Content.
Middle Market Growth is produced by the Association for Corporate Growth. To learn more about the organization and how to become a member, visit acg.org.
