What Deeluge does
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Deeluge reads the teasers and CIMs that bankers send you, pulls the numbers out of them, and ranks each one against the buy box your firm has written down. Around that sits a CRM for the relationships behind the deals, so the banker who sent you a book last March is the same record you are emailing today.
It is built for independent sponsors and lower middle market funds, where the volume of inbound material is high and the team reading it is small.
The problem it solves
A firm receives far more books than it can read properly. Most are a poor fit, but working out which ones takes an analyst an hour each, and the good ones sit in the queue while that happens.
Deeluge reads every one as it arrives, scores it against your criteria, and tells you which deserve a person. Nothing is discarded. A low score is a ranking, not a rejection, and you can always open the document and disagree.
The main pieces
Screener is where deals live. Upload a teaser or a CIM, or have bankers send them to an address that files them automatically. Each one is read, scored, and placed in one of three bands: pursue, review or pass. You record a verdict, and that verdict is kept.
CRM holds the companies, the people and the opportunities. It works the way a modern CRM does: you define the objects and fields you want rather than living inside someone else's idea of a sales pipeline. Records carry notes, calls, meetings, tasks and a timeline of everything that has happened.
Emails connects your Gmail or Outlook mailbox. You write from a record and the reply is logged against it. The people you correspond with are added to the CRM automatically, so the directory builds itself rather than being maintained by hand.
Tasks is the follow-up list, yours and the team's, grouped by what is overdue and what is due next.
Reports turns any of the above into counts, totals and averages you can group, filter and chart, saved onto dashboards you keep private or share with the firm.
Data is a directory of banker firms and their contacts, pulled from external sources, which you can export into your CRM.
What keeps firms apart
Every firm is a separate tenant. The separation is enforced by the database itself, not only by the application, so a query that forgot to filter by firm returns nothing rather than someone else's data.
Deal documents are treated as confidential material throughout. They are encrypted where they are stored, and their contents never appear in logs or error messages.
What it does not do
- It does not decide for you. It ranks and explains; the verdict is yours.
- It does not read documents it was not given. Nothing is scraped from your mailbox beyond what you connect deliberately.
- One person belongs to one firm. There is no account switcher.