Citadel spent £8.6 billion on employee compensation across 2022 and 2023. A significant portion of that went to AI
AI has democratised quantitative analysis to the point where everyone has access to the same models, the same datasets, and increasingly similar conclusions.
70-90% of M&A deals fail because of inadequate due diligence, representing billions in wasted capital and collapsed investment theses.
Most due diligence surveys waste time and money because middlemen optimise for completes, not answers.
Investment-grade primary research requires triangulation across multiple sources, MNPI boundary awareness, and measuring cost per useful insight rather than cost per call.
When expert calls contradict each other, most deal teams assume they need more calls. They do not. They need convergence. Triangulated research forces data from multiple methods and cohorts to either align around a truth or diverge in ways that surface real risk
Conviction in primary research comes from better questions. This article breaks down why up to 40% of expert calls fail to move investment decisions, how poor question design destroys value upstream, and the exact framework top investors use.
Portfolio managers waste up to $67,200 annually on primary research. Choosing a vendor is critical.
PE holding periods hit 7+ years while add-ons reached 74% of deals. Most research infrastructure is still built for three-year holds. This article breaks down the math on wasted spend, the shifts top firms made, and how to rebuild for the long hold.
AI adoption has surged across investment firms, but alpha is harder to find because everyone feeds models the same public data. The edge has shifted to proprietary primary research.
HP's £8 billion write-down on Autonomy proves that access to data is not due diligence
Woozle Launches Vendor and Technographic Data Capability for Investment Due Diligence
AI now reads and summarizes deal documents in minutes but AI cannot tell you what customers actually think.
Nearly one-third of expert network consultations involve participants who weren't actually qualified for the call, according to
A multi-manager hedge fund avoided £3–5 million in losses on US Class 8 truck manufacturers by using Woozle Research's dealer survey.
Expert networks recycle the same professionals.. You're paying $1,200 per call for access your competitors already bought, then spending another $2,000 in analyst time to clean up the work.
Expert networks recycle the same professionals.. You're paying $1,200 per call for access your competitors already bought, then spending another $2,000 in analyst time to clean up the work.
A $5 billion European hedge fund hired Woozle Research to interview seven European wind farm developers about Nordex SE turbine performance. Woozle delivered verified intelligence in days at half the cost of expert networks.
The new platform eliminates the expert network middleman tax, reducing research costs by 50 percent and recovering 14 hours per
Airbus is reverting software on 6,000+ A320-family aircraft to an earlier version after discovering that intense solar radiation
Nearly 60% of deals fail due to poor diligence. Here's how top deal teams use primary research to validate theses and uncover risks before they become write-downs.
