In the high-stakes world of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), time is money and data is everything. Yet, despite billions being invested in M&A transactions every year, between 70% and 90% of deals fail to deliver the expected value. More often than not, the root cause lies in fragmented data landscapes that obstruct due diligence, valuation accuracy, and post-merger integration.

The issue isn’t the lack of data. It’s that essential information lives in dozens of disconnected systems, scattered across departments, subsidiaries, and external partners. Investment banks juggle CRM records, proprietary databases, and financial models in incompatible formats. Private equity firms need to assess portfolio performance across multiple tech stacks. Corporate development teams spend weeks reconciling data after every acquisition. The result is a process slowed by friction, blind spots, and inefficiencies at precisely the stage where clarity is most valuable.

Enter Nexus: the first agentic AI platform built to solve M&A’s data fragmentation problem.

The M&A Data Dilemma: Why Traditional Approaches Fall Short

Imagine conducting due diligence on a high-value SaaS acquisition. The data you need is spread across the target’s Salesforce CRM, a PostgreSQL customer database, financial spreadsheets, Mixpanel product metrics, HR data from Workday, and compliance documents in multiple formats. Each source speaks a different language, requires its own permissions, and demands specialist expertise to interpret.

The current approach involves negotiating data access with each system, manually integrating incompatible formats, and working across multiple tools, each with its own query syntax and analytics layer. By the time the data is standardized and analyzed, market conditions have changed, or a competitor has already acted.

This manual, siloed process makes traditional M&A analysis reactive rather than strategic. Teams spend more time gathering data than generating insights, and decisions are often made on incomplete or outdated information.

Nexus: The Universal Data Intelligence Layer for M&A

Nuklai Nexus redefines how M&A teams interact with data by introducing a unified, intelligent infrastructure that removes friction at every stage of the process. It transforms disjointed data environments into a single, queryable ecosystem through three core innovations:

Universal SQL Layer (NXSQL): Nexus introduces NXSQL, a universal SQL dialect that allows analysts and deal teams to query any data source: databases, APIs, files, or SaaS platforms, without moving or duplicating data. Whether it’s financial performance data from Excel, CRM data from Salesforce, or operational KPIs from internal systems, NXSQL brings everything under one consistent query model. This drastically reduces integration time and eliminates the dependency on data engineering bottlenecks.

Agentic AI Integration: Nexus uses autonomous AI agents to automate complex M&A workflows. These agents understand context, retrieve relevant data, generate insights, and can even execute actions such as building valuation models or risk summaries. Instead of using multiple tools, analysts interact through natural language, for example by asking, “Show me customer churn by segment for the target company,” and receiving real, verified results with full traceability.

Traceable, Secure, and Governed Collaboration: Nexus enforces granular data governance. Every query, result, and insight is traceable to its source, enabling compliance teams and executives to audit findings with confidence. Data never leaves its original environment, ensuring security and regulatory integrity throughout the transaction lifecycle. 

From Due Diligence to Integration

Nexus accelerates every phase of the M&A process. During due diligence, teams can instantly access verified insights without waiting for data engineers or analysts to manually merge datasets. During valuation, AI-driven correlation models uncover hidden dependencies and operational risks. Post-merger, the same unified layer supports integration, enabling cross-company visibility within days instead of months.

For enterprise clients, this is a strategic advantage. Nexus turns M&A from a backward-looking process into a forward-looking one, where decisions are informed by real-time intelligence and deep contextual understanding of all available data.

The New Standard for M&A Intelligence

In a world where data complexity defines deal success, Nuklai Nexus stands as the connective tissue between disparate systems, teams, and insights. It empowers M&A professionals to work with data the way it should be: unified, accessible, and actionable.

Nexus is the data intelligence infrastructure that makes M&A faster, smarter, and more resilient. The result is a future where due diligence happens in days, integration is seamless, and value realization begins the moment a deal is signed.