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Case study · From the Pluris libraryReceipt no. 9243
What sucked

A private equity firm was evaluating an acquisition of a healthcare AI company, a target that looked compelling on revenue but carried hidden risks standard due diligence couldn't surface.

Without AI-specific technical diligence, the firm risked overpaying by 15–20% for capabilities that were overstated, vendor-dependent, or concentrated in a single key person whose departure would collapse the product.

Private equityFinancial ServicesInvesting & Deals2–4 months
What they built

AI4ALL Solutions evaluated the target's AI architecture, model dependencies, training data provenance, and team composition alongside a PE firm's standard M&A process, surfacing a single-engineer key-person risk and vendor-dependent capabilities that led to performance-based earnout restructuring.

What changed
15–20% Valuation Reduction Avoided

AI-specific technical diligence identified capability overstatements, enabling deal restructuring that avoided a 15–20% overpayment.

Key-Person Risk Surfaced Pre-Close

Critical dependency on a single engineer identified before close, allowing buyer to negotiate technical team retention guarantees.

Deal Restructured with Performance Earnouts

Acquisition reconfigured with earnouts tied to post-close AI capability milestones, protecting buyer from paying for undelivered capabilities.

Time to results
2–4 months
Company size
51-250 people
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Who did it
Melania Calinescu
Founder & CEO, AI4ALL Inc.

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