2 real-life Business Process Automation examples for Corporate Strategy

2 real-life Business Process Automation examples for Corporate Strategy

Automation differs in corporate strategy because the function is low-volume and high-judgment, so the aim is rarely to automate the final decision.

Instead, automation is most useful for gathering market intelligence, tracking signals, synthesising internal and external data, building first-pass analyses, and keeping leadership aligned, which shortens strategy cycles while leaving prioritisation, trade-offs, and conviction with senior humans.

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Accelerated Deal Sourcing Automation in Private Equity and Venture Capital

Submitted by Frederic Kalinke

This AI Automation helps investment teams accelerate their deal sourcing by automatically analyzing company, industry, and performance metrics from pitch decks, enabling the review of 10× more opportunities through significantly faster and more efficient opportunity processing.

Use Case
Deal Sourcing
Tools
PitchBook, Grata
Input
Pitch Decks
Process
Automatically analyse company, industry and metrics
Output
Faster processing of investment opportunities
Outcome
Review 10× more opportunities
Private Equity and Venture Capital
Asset and Wealth Management
Corporate Strategy
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S&P Global's M&A engine

S&P Global utilise a combination of Large Language Models to automate the identification of acquisition targets and the synthesis of vast datasets, allowing their strategy teams to evaluate potential deals with significantly higher speed.

Use Case
Automated Target Sourcing
Tools
Internal Tools & Google Gemini
Input
Global corporate datasets, unstructured market news, and financial filings.
Process
AI agents parse millions of data points to identify companies matching specific strategic criteria, while LLM-ready APIs allow for the rapid extraction of "connected insights" across disparate datasets.
Output
Curated lists of high-probability acquisition targets with automated rationale summaries.
Outcome
Faster decision-making cycles and the ability to evaluate a higher volume of deals without increasing headcount.
Asset and Wealth Management
Corporate Strategy
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