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Most corporate development teams know how their own deals run.What they rarely know is how their process compares with everyone else.
How big are other deal teams?
How many deals do they close in a year?
What are their biggest challenges?
Are they already using AI in their process?
To answer these questions, DealRoom built the M&A Benchmark Tool.
M&A Benchmark Tool is a simple interactive experience that allows buy-side deal teams to compare their operations against insights gathered from 150+ dealmakers across corporate development and M&A teams.
How It Works
The benchmark takes less than two minutes.
Users answer six short questions about how their M&A team operates, including:
- How large their M&A team is
- How many deals they closed in the last 12 months
- Their typical deal size
- Their biggest challenge across the deal process
- How many tools they use to manage deals
- Whether they are currently using AI in M&A
As each answer is selected, the tool shows how other deal teams responded, giving immediate industry context.
Once the questions are complete, the tool generates a Benchmark Snapshot. This snapshot compares your team with the broader dataset across key areas like:
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- ‍Team Size
See how your team structure compares with typical deal teams.‍ - Deal Activity
Understand how your deal velocity stacks up against peers.‍ - Deal Size
See where your typical transactions fall across the market.‍ - Process Challenges
Learn which problems other deal teams face most often.‍ - Tool Stack Complexity
See how many tools other teams rely on across sourcing, diligence, and execution.
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The benchmark is powered by insights from the State of Buy-Side M&A 2026 report, based on responses from 150+ dealmakers across corporate development teams.
After answering 6 quick questions, you’ll unlock key insights from the report and see exactly how your team compares with the broader market.
Here’s a glimpse of what the data reveals:
• 74% of deal teams operate with just 1–5 people, showing how lean most corporate development teams are
• 48% of teams are already using AI somewhere in their M&A workflow
• Target sourcing remains the most cited challenge across deal teams
• Most organizations rely on multiple tools across the deal lifecycle
And that’s just a preview.
Finish the benchmark to see how your team stacks up against the industry and explore the insights shaping modern M&A teams.
You might be ahead of the pack, right in line, or doing something very different. Either way, you’ll walk away with a clearer picture of where you stand.
Try the Benchmark
Curious how your M&A team compares?
Take the benchmark and see how your deal operations stack up against 150+ industry peers.
Try the M&A Benchmark Tool here.
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