According to a recent McKinsey report, 82% of lower-middle market business owners currently handle succession planning and exits without professional advisory services.

Avdeal's fee structure for M&A advisory is between 5% and 10% of the transaction's enterprise value, which is above the market rate for traditional service providers.

The "skills" feature in Anthropic's Claude models has become a key paradigm for Avdeal to encode standard operating procedures and improve model performance.

Avdeal's target market is businesses that generate between $1 million and $10 million in annual profit.

Avdeal's operational model involves pairing each investment banker physically with a software engineer to observe and automate their workflows.

At Avdeal, a single investment banker can currently manage five to seven transactions concurrently.

Avdeal operates on a success-fee-only model, charging no upfront retainers for its M&A advisory services.

Large investment banks like Goldman Sachs have unit economics that prevent them from profitably serving M&A deals for businesses valued around $20 million.

Avdeal positions itself as the world's first AI-native investment bank.

The AI model Opus 4.6 has been the most significant recent technological advancement for Avdeal's business.

A recent McKinsey report estimates that $3.7 trillion worth of businesses will need to be sold or transferred in the next 10 years.

Sam Altman advised Y Combinator founders to build businesses that would clearly benefit from future, more powerful AI models like a hypothetical ChatGPT-7.

Avdeal's AI system for understanding and routing inbound emails has achieved 98-99% accuracy, which is believed to surpass human-level performance for that task.

Avdeal predicts that a single investment banker will be able to manage over 20-25 concurrent transactions within the next 12 to 24 months.