CIM Automation Research

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by a searcher from United States Military Academy
in Charlottesville, VA, USA

1yr ago

CIM Automation Research

I am currently conducting research on pain points on CIM analysis and evaluation. While there are great GenAI tools to expedite evaluating CIMs, I have found results and quality to vary widely (mostly a waste of time).

I wanted to shoot out a survey to collect data from the search community, so I can better understand what the biggest pain points are with evaluating CIMs. My intent is to use data from the survey to build a tool to automate the most time consuming parts of CIM evaluation with 100% precision and accuracy.

I'd love your feedback!

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reply by an intermediary 1yr ago
from University of Virginia in Metuchen, NJ 08840, USA

Done. Looking forward to hearing what you find from others. CIM quality varies and true financial modeling will require additional information on product, market, customer segment level growth drivers, cost efficiency levers, not found in most CIMs.

reply by a professional 1yr ago
from Johns Hopkins University in New York, NY, USA

Would love to keep up with your learnings, I built a similar tool for pre-seed pitch decks and seed / series A data rooms — curious how much of that transfers over to CIMs