Pre-diligence intelligence

Clarity before capital.

Institutional-grade target screening, built on a proprietary research platform and senior judgment.

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What we deliver

Two deliverables. One discipline.

Each engagement produces a single artifact, fully sourced and adversarially tested.

Deliverable A

Sector Analysis

For investors with a thesis but no specific target. Maps market structure, fragmentation, competitive dynamics, regulatory environment, and produces a ranked target shortlist with preliminary screening criteria.

Where should I look for opportunities in this space?

Anatomy
  • Executive summary§ 01
  • Thesis options or stress test§ 02
  • Market & competitive landscape§ 03
  • Regulatory & policy§ 04
  • Dissenting signals§ 05
  • Target shortlist§ 06
  • Confidence block§ 07
Deliverable B

Preliminary Target Assessment

For investors with a specific target in mind. Target overview, market position, financial profile, operational assessment, risk analysis, deal thesis with conditions, and a list of information gaps for the eventual data room.

Should this target enter formal diligence?

Anatomy
  • Target overview§ 01
  • Market position§ 02
  • Financial profile§ 03
  • Operational assessment§ 04
  • Risk analysis§ 05
  • Deal thesis with conditions§ 06
  • Information gaps for diligence§ 07
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How it works

Research → Review → Verify.

A structured pipeline. Machine speed for evidence assembly. Senior judgment for what it means.

01 · Research

Multi-source evidence assembly.

Specialized AI analysts run multi-lens research across a proprietary corpus of primary sources: SEC filings, CMS, FTC/DOJ, FDA, OIG, court records, trade press, and academic research. Every claim traces to a citation.

02 · Review

Adversarial stress-testing.

Findings are challenged before they reach you. Dedicated red-team and contradiction-detector agents test for logical gaps, hidden assumptions, and bias. Stress testing identifies what breaks under pressure.

03 · Verify

Senior sign-off.

Every deliverable is personally reviewed and refined before delivery. We validate the analytical logic, sharpen the narrative, and ensure the work meets your standards.

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Why Golwen

Engineered, not prompted.

Four operating principles that govern every engagement.

Principle 01

Not your typical AI.

The research platform is purpose-built for pre-diligence: dependency-graphed agent topology, primary-source corpus with tiered authority weights, adversarial gates baked into the orchestrator. Not a wrapper on a chatbot.

Principle 02

Evidence-grounded.

Every claim cites a primary source. Tiered citations distinguish government data from company filings from secondary research, so you always know the weight behind each finding.

Principle 03

Adversarially tested.

Red-team review and stress testing ship as appendices with every report. Showing the work is part of the product.

Principle 04

Machine speed, senior judgment.

The platform handles source gathering and cross-referencing. A senior strategist reviews and refines every deliverable. Speed without surrendering accountability.

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About

The work behind the seal.

Golwen Advisory is a solo-founder firm built around a structured research discipline and a single signature on every deliverable.

Justin Adams, Founder of Golwen Advisory

Justin Adams

Founder · Golwen Advisory

With seventeen years in healthcare and nearly a decade in Fortune 5 strategic leadership roles, Justin built Golwen because pre-diligence research is structurally underserved: too important to skip, too expensive to do well at traditional consulting rates. The wedge is a purpose-built AI platform that handles evidence assembly at machine speed, paired with senior strategist judgment on what the evidence means.

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Begin a conversation.

Tell us about your research needs and we'll set up a conversation.

Clarity before capital.

Engagements typically begin with a 30-minute scoping conversation. We define the research question, identify comparable peers, and frame the central comparative axis before the work begins. Scope quality is the lever for output quality.