Insights and press
What we publish
Two kinds of writing: product notes on what the Engine now does and why a mandate needed it, and deal data drawn from the processes it has carried. We publish nothing without the source behind it.
Press enquiries
Rob Whorrod is available for comment on lower mid-market deal conditions, diligence practice and process automation. Reach the team at press@maengine.co.uk and we will come back inside a working day.
July 2026
ProductIntroducing cited answers: diligence without the shadow file
Ask the deal room a question and the answer arrives with the clause and the page beside it. This note walks through how the citation layer indexes a mandate and what it changed about the diligence stage.
May 2026
ProductRelease log: gates, conditions and the audit trail
Material now releases when its condition is met, and every release is logged against a named party. What the gate model looks like in practice, and how the audit trail reads at completion.
March 2026
InsightsWhat a sell-side timeline actually costs
Stage by stage timings from the mandates run on the Engine, set against the timelines advisers reported before it. Where the weeks go, and which of them are avoidable.
December 2025
InsightsUK Lower Mid-Market Deal Report 2025
Volumes, multiples and process length across the sub fifty million bracket, with a section on how much of a data room is ever opened by a buyer.
October 2025
PressM&A Engine opens early access to advisers
The platform moves from single mandate use to a small group of corporate finance firms, with the six modules and the eleven stage lifecycle available end to end.
Deal data is worth more when the process it came from is the same one every time.
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