Hurdle AdvisoryDeal Workflow
how it works · one page

AI does the busywork.
Your team makes every call.

From the moment a banker's email arrives to a fully logged CRM record, deal folder, and screening one-pager — automated end to end, with a named human approving every write to your systems of record.

~2.5 hrsanalyst time returned per deal (est.)
100%of CRM & file writes human-approved
Every changejournaled, attributable & reversible
Outside party AI works Human decides Committed to record
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Sell-side banker · outside your firm

A deal lands in the inbox

The banker emails a teaser, NDA, or full CIM to your deals mailbox — exactly as they do today. No portals, no process change for the street.

Outlook · Microsoft 365
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AI · within seconds

Read, classify, extract

The document is identified (teaser / NDA / CIM), and the facts that matter are pulled out: financials, sector, HQ, the banker's details from the signature. A 100-page CIM is distilled into CRM-ready fields and a drafted screening one-pager.

Claude · Anthropic PDF & Word parsing
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AI · checked by code, not taken on faith

Cross-checked against your CRM

Is this banker already a contact? Is this the same deal progressing, or a new one? The AI reasons semantically — “Bear Stearns” and “Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.” are one firm — and every match it claims is then verified deterministically before it can touch a record. No duplicate contacts. No duplicate deals.

Claude · Anthropic DealCloud CRM (read)

The approval email — nothing is written yet

Your analyst receives one email showing exactly what the AI proposes: the CRM record, the folder to create, the files to save, and any changes to existing data shown before → after. They reply from their phone in seconds:

✓ Approve all one click Approve 1, 3 commit only selected actions revenue_ltm: 45.2 correct any field inline ✕ Reject nothing happens

Only the analyst the request was sent to — or an authorized teammate — can approve. Anyone else is ignored and flagged.

And when the AI isn’t sure, it asks. Two bankers with the same name? Conflicting HQ? Unreadable pages? Genuine ambiguity is never auto-resolved — it’s presented as a labeled choice (“Option A / Option B”), and anything left unanswered is held, not guessed.
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Committed · only after approval

Written to your systems of record

The CRM record is created or updated, the standardized deal folder is built, documents are filed where your team expects them, and the screening one-pager lands in your firm's own template — Excel, Word, or PDF.

DealCloud CRM SharePoint Excel / Word one-pager
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Recorded · automatically

Every action lands in the ledger

Each write is journaled with what changed, the prior values, who approved it, and the exact email that authorized it — an audit trail built for a regulated business. Made a mistake? An administrator can revert any change from its before-image.

Append-only journalOne-click undo

Running quietly the whole time

For the deal team

Live status console

Every deal as a step-by-step timeline — received, extracted, awaiting your approval, filed — with green checks as work completes in real time.

For the operations owner

Health dashboard

Connection status for mail, CRM, and AI; approvals waiting too long; anything that needs attention — surfaced, never silent.

By design

Fails safe, always

Low confidence, a protected PDF, an unexpected document — the system stops and asks a human rather than guessing. Escalations are visible and tracked to resolution.

The pieces, plainly

ToolRole in the workflowYour data
Microsoft 365 / Outlook Where deals arrive and where approvals happen — your existing mailbox, no new inbox to watch Stays in your tenant
Claude (Anthropic) Reading, extraction, one-pager drafting, and the matching judgment — proposes, never commits Processed per data-processing terms
DealCloud Your CRM — the system of record for deals and contacts; written only on approval Your instance, your permissions
SharePoint & Excel Deal folders in your standard structure; the one-pager in your firm's template Stays in your tenant
Microsoft Azure Hosts the workflow inside your own cloud subscription — deleting one resource group removes everything Your subscription, your region
Hurdle Advisory — intelligent, human-gated deal intake illustrative figures · fictional deal data