AI-Powered Industry Deep Research
Full operational and competitive landscape of any target industry, built from IBISWorld data, market reports, and AI synthesis. What used to take an analyst weeks, delivered in days.
Stage 1, Active Searcher
Your search process is costing you time, money, and deals. AI changes that.
Other searchers are using AI to screen deals in hours, not weeks. They're building industry landscapes overnight. They're walking into management interviews already knowing what questions matter. The search process used to be a marathon. For the ones using the right tools, it's a sprint.
The problem
Search is expensive, slow, and brutally research-heavy.
A serious searcher burns $150K to $500K and 6 to 24 months before close, most of it on manual industry research, deal screening, management interviews, and investment memo production.
Meanwhile, the best deals move fast. The seller's broker isn't waiting for your industry deep-dive to finish. By the time you're ready to make a move, the deal is gone or has six other bidders.
This is the searcher's tax. Every cycle of slow research is a cycle the better-equipped competitor closes a deal you didn't get to bid on.
What's changed
The old analyst timeline just collapsed.
The research process that used to take a team of analysts 3 to 6 months now takes days. AI-powered industry analysis, CIM screening, management interview synthesis, and investment memo drafting, compressed into a fraction of the time, at a fraction of the cost.
FGN deploys AI research and synthesis systems purpose-built for the ETA search process. You spend your time on judgment and relationships. The intelligence layer works in the background.
The best deals don't wait for slow diligence. The searchers closing right now aren't working harder, they're working with better tools.
What we deploy for searchers
Six tools, one searcher's edge.
CIM Screening & Operational Risk Assessment
AI reads the CIM and flags key-person dependencies, revenue concentration risks, operational gaps, and red flags before you invest human hours in diligence.
Management Interview Synthesis
Pre-LOI management conversations turned into structured knowledge maps: who knows what, what's undocumented, where the operational risks live.
Competitive Landscape Mapping
AI-driven market positioning of the target business within its industry. Understand where it sits before you commit.
Investment Memo Drafting
AI-assisted synthesis of all research into a structured investment memo. You make the judgment calls. The document builds itself.
Operational Due Diligence Framework
A proprietary checklist and assessment methodology built from 30 years of small business operational experience, now powered by AI analysis.
Where this fits in the FGN stack
The two capabilities that matter before LOI.
Preview at this stage
Operational Due Diligence
Most of FGN's DD product runs once you're under LOI. At Stage 1, what matters is the framework, knowing the questions to ask, the red flags to watch for, and the operational signals that separate a real deal from a glossy CIM.
Read the capability →Post-close preview
AI Operations
Worth knowing now, even if it doesn't apply yet. The operators you'll be competing against in 18 months are running this layer already.
Read the capability →Live industry profiles
See what operator-grade deep research looks like before diligence starts.
These are the same long-form industry profiles searchers use to cut weeks out of screening and focus human attention where it matters. Read the operating reality first, then bring the live deal into the call.
NAICS 4885102025-12-21
Freight Forwarding Brokerages & Agencies
A mature, fragmented industry getting squeezed from above and below. Profit margins of 4.9% are thin, direct carrier relationships are eating the middle, and the operators who survive are the ones that specialize and become operationally sticky.
Read full profile →NAICS 5617302025-10-04
Landscaping Services
A labor-heavy, fragmented industry where the next margin point comes from routing, retention, and job costing, not market growth. The shops that win are the ones that make crews more productive without adding chaos.
Read full profile →NAICS 2382202025-08-01
Solar Panel Installation
A fast-grown industry entering a slower, more demanding phase where tax credits stop covering for operational sloppiness. The installers who tighten dispatch, follow-up, inventory, and service capture the next margin layer.
Read full profile →The consultation
Deal Intelligence Session
A free 30-minute working call to evaluate how AI can accelerate your search and sharpen your diligence process. Tell us what you're targeting, where you are in the search, and what's slowing you down. We come prepared with two to three specific ideas for your situation. No pitch, just a working conversation. Useful whether you ever work with us or not.
We'll ask
- What industry or industries are you targeting in your search?
- Where are you in the search process? (Early / Active deal flow / Specific deal in diligence)
- How are you currently handling industry research and CIM analysis?
- What's your target close timeline?
Booking flow
Stage-specific intake is now wired through the existing booking page.
This button now routes to the stage-aware Google Workspace booking flow with the active-search intake questions preloaded.
Other stages
Already deeper in the journey?
STAGE 2
Pre-Close / LOI
Under LOI and need the operational track running before Day 1 arrives.
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First 100 Days
Closed the deal and now the business has to run under new ownership.
View →STAGE 4
Scaling Operator
Stabilized the handoff and now want systems that support growth.
View →STAGE 5
Investor / Sponsor
Need visibility across operators or portfolio companies before or after capital is deployed.
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