Would you pay for customizable machine-learning driven deal sourcing or no?

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November 29, 2018

by a searcher from Harvard University - Harvard Business School in Dallas, TX, USA

You all know finding a half-decent company to buy in the first place is where almost all the magic happens.

Countless hours are spent prospecting and competing for a relatively fixed number of companies.

Even if you're lucky enough to have a dedicated BD person sourcing there's no guarantee they'll find anything of quality.

So, would anyone be willing to pay say $99/month for a trainable, machine-learning, vizio front end algorithm that you can customize to your investment thesis?

Looking for feedback as a side project away from my search because I'm getting to NDA and mgmt pres stage on some things and I'll buy a biz within the next 3-6 mos but I suspect there's a market void for others 

Lemme know

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelleyan/


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Reply by a professional
from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA, United States
Hi Andrew. FYI, AI is being give alot more credit than it deserves. Humans still play a much bigger role in getting that algorithm trained and then it is still not perfect. At interexo.com we are using AI as well, but we find out it is much more effective if users themselves set their search criteria and make a saved search. Then the moment a deal come on the platform that fits their criteria, they receive an email notification of that deal. That way they have a customized deal flow that is tailor made to their needs. Hope this was helpful.
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Reply by an intermediary
from Cornell University in Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Hi Andrew. I notice the MIT background shining through. I actually already have something not too dissimilar to this, but mostly used internally for discretioncapital.com - more cash in that than $99/month :) Happy to discuss - redacted
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