acquisition target research

A 2026 PE research protocol for matching PACER bankruptcy hits to legal entities, separating affiliates, checking case stages, and recording accepted, rejected or unresolved results in a debtor-match worksheet.

A field-level claim ledger for resolving conflicting data sources on a private equity target in 2026: six dispositions, a conflict-class cross-tab, second-review gates, a fictional worked example and a schema.

A 2026 protocol for turning Google Maps discovery into acquisition research: classify profiles, verify establishments and operators, preserve ownership uncertainty, and measure resolution without overstating market coverage.

A 2026 private equity research handoff checklist covering identity, mandate results, source-to-claim evidence, review status and owned open questions, with a manifest and machine-readable schema.

A 2026 framework for benchmarking AI acquisition-research agents with frozen cases, evidence metrics, repeated runs, confidence intervals, costs, and release gates.