AI + M&A
Deal Hackathon

About the Event

This is an M&A solutioning competition.

The AI + M&A Deal Hackathon is a hands-on, competitive workshop built for senior M&A practitioners. Teams of 4 to 5 work a single realistic (fictional) deal scenario under time pressure: investigating emerging risk signals, weighing integration tradeoffs, and delivering a defensible course-correction ahead of a leadership checkpoint. Each team produces a strategic recommendation, scored live against a published rubric.

Teams work the deal discovery and strategy assessment on Tiger Team M&A's AI-powered platform, used as a live strategy lab that holds the case file and captures every team's decisions. The scenario is grounded in current M&A landscape dynamics: an enterprise-software acquirer integrating a fast-growing AI target.

Every team starts with the same inputs, but each team's discovery path diverges. The competition is real, and no two recommendations come out the same.

The Payoff

What you leave with

How the Day Works

One deal with fast-moving issues. One AI platform to speed your human judgment. May the best team win!

Same deal, same clock, one scoreboard. Every team is scored live against a shared rubric.

1. 01
   Welcome and briefing

   Team assignments, rubric walkthrough, deal briefing, and platform orientation.
2. 02
   Phase 1 · Diagnose

   Teams investigate a Day 30 deal with emerging risks using their wits and an AI platform. They get limited options to "spend" for added discovery, and form their view on what the original deal thesis and diligence might have missed.
3. ⚡
   Integration Strategy Curveball

   A forcing development lands for every team at once, turning analysis into decision.
4. 03
   Phase 2 · Decide

   Teams commit to a course-correction and model the consequences in the platform to pressure-test the call.
5. 04
   Team Readouts

   Time-boxed team presentations, scored live by the judge panel.
6. 05
   Scoring and awards

   Final scores, top-team awards, and closing discussion.
7. 06
   Networking

   The deal's over; the community connection continues.

Who Should Attend

Built for practitioners who own M&A outcomes

In the room: in-house M&A practitioners across -

Additional sessions are being planned for later this year, for other locations and virtual. Reach us at [email protected] to be notified as future Deal Hackathons are announced.

Your Hosts

Led by practitioners, for practitioners

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Join a curated senior M&A practitioner cohort

Participation is free but selective, as space is limited. We're intentionally curating a mix of profiles across M&A integration and transformation backgrounds. The best outcomes come from holistic solutioning.