A hundred eyes on every deal.
Argus IQ reads the entire data room in minutes and delivers a register of findings with the literal source passage for every finding, plus a draft red flag report. The adviser remains the reviewer. The waiting disappears.
"The Principal is entitled to terminate this agreement with immediate effect if control over the Contractor changes, directly or indirectly, without being liable for any compensation."
- 3playbooks: share deal, asset deal, real estate
- 15core clauses per file
- 10issue types in the first pass
- 247documents read in 14 minutes (fictitious deal set)
- Processing within the EU
- Separated per client
- No training by third parties
- ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 in progress
- AI Act: transparency in place
- Source passage with every finding
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01
The largest customer may terminate the framework agreement as soon as control changes.
High · Change of controlFramework agreement Nordveld · Veldhoorn, p. 12, art. 14.2Confirmed by reviewer -
02
One customer is entitled to the lowest price granted to anyone.
High · Most favoured customerSupply agreement Hesselink, p. 7, art. 5.4Awaiting reviewer -
03
The lease of the distribution centre renews automatically for five years unless terminated before 1 March.
Medium · Automatic renewalLease Rijksweg 14, p. 3, art. 3.2Confirmed
28 more findings in this register. See the full demo on the same fictitious deal set (in Dutch).
The product
The first pass of every data room, automated.
Between opening the data room and the first usable issues list lie weeks of reading. Argus IQ reverses the order: the machine reads everything first, the human judges what is worth judging.
Issues list with sources
Every finding comes with severity, expected impact, a suggested next step and the literal source passage with a page reference. Verifying takes seconds, because the passage is already there.
Draft red flag report
Deal overview, analysed scope, findings per category and open questions, in a fixed format that is immediately usable in the deal process.
Reviewer in the loop
Confirm, reject or adjust, finding by finding. Argus IQ provides the evidence, the professional decides. That keeps the quality where it belongs: with people.
Four agents, one report
Classification, clause extraction, issue engine and reporting. Every step produces verifiable intermediate results, so it is always visible why a finding exists. Fixed taxonomy, fixed clauses, fixed issue types; no free-form legal analysis.
Who it is for
Built for the side that sets the pace.
Private equity and corporate development
Buy-and-build means the same first pass, deal after deal. Turn it into a repeatable advantage: earlier sight of deal breakers, a sharper position during exclusivity.
M&A advisers and lawyers
Start where it gets interesting: at the judgement. Argus IQ does the reading of the first pass and puts the evidence next to every finding. You review, you accelerate, and you stay in control towards your client.
Selling entrepreneurs
About to sell your company? See your own red flags before the buyer does, and enter the data room sale-ready. That way your best deal starts with a clean slate.
Why we build this
"I have read hundreds of data rooms. The material issues always sit in a handful of provisions, and still we read everything. That reading belongs with a machine, the judgement with us."
Shelly Razaac, co-founder and the face of Argus IQ, M&A and legal practice
Trust
Deal data deserves the heaviest guard.
- European soil
- Models run on European infrastructure and deal data is processed within the EU. Your data does not train third-party models.Status: In place
- ISO 27001 and 42001
- Information security and responsible AI in a single control framework, organised along both standards while certification is under way.Status: Certification under way
- Separated per client
- Every client gets its own shielded environment. Your deal data never shares a model with the counterparty.Status: In place
- No black box
- Every finding carries its own evidence: document, page and literal passage. An honest overview: certificates and policies are published here as soon as they are issued.
White paper
The hidden cost of manual due diligence.
What does a first pass really cost, once you count the waiting, the deal risk and the most expensive hours? A sober analysis with a calculation model, and an honest answer to what automation does and does not solve. The paper is currently available in Dutch.
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Questions up front
The five questions everyone asks.
Is this legal advice?
No. Argus IQ delivers evidenced signals with source references; the weighing and the judgement always sit with your own advisers. That is why the reviewer workflow is the core of the product.
Where is my deal data kept and who can reach it?
Processing takes place within the EU, in an environment separated per client. Your data trains no third-party models and never shares a model with the counterparty. We organise information security and responsible AI along ISO 27001 and ISO 42001; certification is under way.
How fast is the first pass?
Minutes to a few hours, depending on the size of the data room. A manual first pass easily takes two to four weeks of the most expensive hours in the process.
What is the difference with the AI assistant in my data room?
An assistant in the data room answers questions about individual documents. Argus IQ reads the whole file along a playbook, weighs every finding, gives the source passage and a next step, and records the reviewer's decision.
What does it cost?
A pilot has one fixed price that you know in advance. You hear the amount in the introductory conversation, because it depends on the number of files and the size of the data rooms. Regular pricing follows at launch.
The pilot
- 1A twenty-minute introduction, with the real screen.
- 2You provide two or three completed files.
- 3A blind comparison with the original report, as a number.
Request a pilot
See how it works on your own file?
Argus IQ launches with a select group of pilot partners from private equity, M&A advisory and legal practice. Leave your details; Shelly will be in touch personally within two working days. The yardstick is fixed in advance, there is one fixed pilot price, and the results and reports remain yours.
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