One membership. Three tiers. The buy-side operating standard.
DealPilot Membership powered by M&A Science gives advisors and operators the certifications, the playbooks, and the Certified Advisor network that turn deal experience into a credential the market actually recognizes.
Not ready for membership yet?
Start at $149.
The M&A Competency Assessment. 30 minutes. Calibrates where you and your team actually stand. Take a single assessment for buy in bulk to assign out to your team. Monitor the results.
Practitioner
Dealmakers who want full access to the buy-side operating standard and plan to use it on real deals.
Whats included:
- Searchable experiential data
- Certifications
- Guided Intelligence (surfaces what's next)
- Live operator sessions (weekly sessions, Labs, AMAs)
- Community access
- Templates from real deals
- Buyer-Led M&A™ framework
Teams
Boutique investment banks, advisory firms, and lean corp dev teams standardizing how the team runs deals.
Everything in Practitioner, plus:
- Up to 20 user seats
- Organization-wide platform access
- Certification seats for the team
- M&A Competency Assessment credits
- Quarterly peer benchmarking
- DealRoom partner discount
Connect
Teams building a repeatable operating standard across corp dev, integration, and functional leaders—kept current through post-mortems so execution improves deal after deal.
Everything in Teams, plus:
- Upload internal playbooks and training
- Assign role-based tracks across functions
- Private enterprise library (searchable by role + stage)
- Team analytics (readiness, gaps, execution consistency)
- Post-mortem capture to keep standards current
- Dedicated onboarding and support
Built for practitioners first.
Equip yourself or your team with frameworks and insights from practitioners who have lived the deals they're referencing.
Boutique firms or M&A teams
Train your associates fast and in bulk. Put the Buyer-Led M&A™ credential on every banker's profile.
Run the deal with one source of truth.
Equip the practice with one operating standard. Stop reinventing the deck for each deal.
Pull in someone who's already done this.
The credential, the directory listing, and access to in-house corp dev perspectives. Show up to the next pitch as a Buyer-Led M&A™ Certified Advisor.
Six things every member gets.
Listed in order of how often members tell us they actually use them.
DealPilot platform
The deal guidance layer, powered by M&A Science Experiential Data. Search the corpus, surface the framework, find the practitioner who's already been through it.
Buyer-Led M&A™ Certification
The operating standard practitioners adapt to their context. Earn the credential. Add it to your profile. Get listed in the directory.
M&A Competency Assessment
Calibrate your team in 30 minutes. Members get unlimited re-takes; bulk pricing rolls into the tier for Teams and Connect.
Live operator sessions
Members-only Off Mandate sessions. Watch experienced practitioners work through real deal situations. Take the artifact home.
M&A Fundamentals Certification
The starting credential. Five hours that gets a new associate to the same baseline as the rest of the team.
Deal Leader contributor program
Senior members go on the podcast, contribute to the corpus, and shape the next certification module. Build your name where the buyers look.
Every Certified Advisor becomes a distribution channel.
When you hold the Buyer-Led M&A™ Certification, your profile lives in the directory. Your LinkedIn badge links here. Your email signature links here. Your firm's website links here. Buyers who hire advisors start here.
Custom deployment for the firms running the most deals.
Connect is for organizations that need named programs, private libraries, and a dedicated relationship with the M&A Science team. It's also the right tier if you're running 50+ deals a year, building an in-house training program, or licensing M&A Science data for your own LLM stack.
- Private DealPilot deployment with your firm's playbooks alongside the corpus
- M&A Science Data License: query the M&A Science corpus from your own stack
- Named Certified Advisor hours for board prep and high-stakes diligence
- Corp dev role-based programs: corp dev lead, integration leader, PE portfolio ops, finance, legal, HR
Start with the Assessment. Decide the tier from there.
$149 to find out where you actually stand. The lowest-commitment way into the operating standard.