Run acquisition diligence from one request list.
Legacy VDRs slow deal teams down with a request list that lives in one associate's inbox, a room that takes a week to stand up, and an invoice that grows with every page. Arc is built around the request list and priced per seat, so thorough diligence never costs more.
What a legacy VDR costs a deal team
One associate holds the process
The request list, the chase-ups, and the state of every open item sit with one person, and the process stalls when they move to another deal.
The invoice grows with the diligence
Per-page and per-document pricing means teams upload less than they should, or route documents around the room, to keep the bill down.
The room takes longer to set up than the deal allows
By the time the VDR is provisioned, the checklist re-keyed, and the bidders invited, the diligence clock is already running.
Every request has an owner and a status
Each diligence item is a request with a status and an owner, visible to the whole deal team. The room shows what is still outstanding, so nobody waits on the associate running it.
- Requests move through four states: draft, awaiting the target, awaiting internal review, and complete
- Ownership is explicit and reassignable, so the process survives a staffing change
- Every version is recorded automatically, so nobody rebuilds the record after close
Priced per seat
A legacy VDR's invoice tracks pages, documents, and named users, which a thorough diligence process needs more of. Arc charges per seat, so doing the work properly costs nothing extra.
- Invite the whole target or counterparty organization with no added fee per person
- Upload what the diligence requires, not what the budget allows
- One predictable line item in your closing costs
Illustrative example
An 8-person deal team running a buyout
8 seats × $80, Scale
$640/mo
- 400 documents uploaded to the room$0 extra
- 30 users from the target and its advisors invited$0 extra
- A second room opened for a parallel deal$0 extra
- Unlimited datarooms
- Unlimited external organizations per room
- 90 days archive retention
Live before the first response is due
Onboarding a legacy VDR is a project: a provisioning ticket, a structure built from scratch, a training call. Arc starts from the way your firm already works.
- Start from a folder structure that matches how your firm runs diligence
- Invite the target's team the same day, with no training needed
- A room takes minutes to set up, not days, so the diligence clock starts when it should
Run your next diligence list in Arc
Judge it against the legacy VDR you would otherwise use.