One platform talks about AI. The other one delivers.
Built before GPT existed
"But I'm still doing all the work myself..."
Built for AI from day one
"It actually wrote the entire memo. This changes everything."
Midaxo built their platform before GPT existed. Their database expects you to fill in fields. Their workflows expect you to create content. An AI chatbot on top can't change that foundation.
Midaxo's sales demo looks impressive. Then you start using it. Here's what actually happens.
Monday Morning:
"Let me ask the AI to generate an investment memo for this target."
Monday 10am:
"Oh. The AI can't generate memos. It just...answers questions about the data I enter manually."
Monday - Friday:
You spend 3 days researching the company, analyzing the market, and writing a 12-page investment memo. You upload it to Midaxo for your team to review.
Friday afternoon:
"I can ask the AI questions about the memo I just spent 3 days writing. That's...not what I thought 'AI-powered' meant."
The Realization:
Midaxo's AI doesn't reduce your workload. It's a chatbot for data you already created manually. You're paying $15K-$75K/year for workflow tracking with an AI mascot.
9:00am:
"Generate an investment memo for [Company X] as a potential acquisition target."
9:08am:
Complete 10-page investment memo delivered. Company overview, market analysis, strategic fit, financials, risks, recommendations. All cited with sources.
9:15am:
"Add a deeper section on their go-to-market strategy and competitive moat." AI updates the memo in 2 minutes.
9:30am:
"Now create a board presentation summarizing the investment case with key slides." Done in 8 minutes.
9:45am:
You've finished what used to take 3 days. You move on to the next target.
The Difference:
AI that actually does the work. Not because we added a feature—because the entire platform was architected for AI automation from day one.
Here's what actually happens when you need to get M&A work done.
Total time: 22+ hours of analyst work
Midaxo's AI helps you...search the memo you just wrote.
Total time: 30 minutes
Finish by Monday lunch. Have the rest of the week free.
You scramble. Pull a Gartner report you have ($15K/year subscription). Manually create slides summarizing it. Export some pipeline data from Midaxo to show targets. Work until midnight finishing the deck.
Midaxo AI can't help. It doesn't do market research.
"Create a board presentation analyzing the [industry] market: size, growth, key players, trends, M&A activity, and top 5 acquisition targets."
15 minutes later: Complete presentation with market analysis, competitive landscape, target profiles, strategic recommendations. All sourced and cited.
Done before lunch. Spend afternoon preparing for the meeting.
20 companies × 2 hours research each = 40 hours of analyst time. Manually Google each one, read their websites, check LinkedIn, search news, compile into spreadsheet. Add to Midaxo's database by hand.
Timeline: 1-2 weeks with full team
Midaxo stores your research. Doesn't create it.
Search each company. AI generates comprehensive profile in seconds: business model, products, customers, tech stack, financials, competitive position, strategic fit for your M&A criteria.
Timeline: 20 minutes for all 20 profiles
Deep intelligence on each. Not just basic firmographics.
No marketing fluff. Here's exactly what happens when you ask each platform's AI to help.
Time: 2-3 days
AI Contribution: Answered follow-up questions about your work
Time: 15 minutes
AI Contribution: Did all the research, analysis, and writing
You subscribe to Gartner for $15K/year, wait 2 weeks for a custom report, read through 80 pages, and manually summarize the insights.
Or you spend a week googling, reading analyst reports, tracking down sources, and building your own market analysis.
When done, you upload your research to Midaxo. The AI can help you search through what you created.
Time: 1-2 weeks + $15K
AI Contribution: Helped you find the file you uploaded
You ask: "Analyze the cybersecurity market: key segments, growth rates, major players, emerging trends, M&A activity, and acquisition targets."
AI synthesizes insights from hundreds of sources: analyst reports, news articles, company filings, funding data, M&A databases. Identifies trends, sizes market segments, profiles key players, highlights recent deals, suggests targets matching your criteria.
Delivers comprehensive analysis with citations. You can ask follow-up questions, go deeper on specific segments, or request a presentation summarizing findings.
Time: 10-15 minutes
AI Contribution: Conducted the entire research project
You open PowerPoint. You manually create slides summarizing your pipeline, target companies, strategic rationale, financial projections, timeline, risks.
You export data from Midaxo to create charts. You write the narrative. You design the slides. You iterate based on feedback.
When complete, you can upload the presentation to Midaxo's document library for the team to access.
Time: 4-6 hours
AI Contribution: Stored the file you created
You ask: "Create a board presentation on our Q1 2025 acquisition strategy. Include market overview, pipeline status, top 3 targets with strategic rationale, financial analysis, timeline, and risks."
AI generates a complete presentation: market analysis slides, pipeline visualization, detailed target profiles, strategic fit assessment, financial models, risk analysis, recommendations. Formatted, structured, ready to export as PowerPoint or PDF.
You refine: "Add a slide comparing Target A and Target B on technology capabilities." AI adds it. "Make the financial projections more conservative." AI updates them.
Time: 15-20 minutes
AI Contribution: Created the entire presentation
See the Pattern?
In Midaxo, you do the work and the AI watches. In CorpDev.Ai, the AI does the work and you direct it. That's not a feature difference. That's an architecture difference.
Where each platform actually excels (and where it doesn't)
| Capability | CorpDev.Ai | Midaxo |
|---|---|---|
| AI generates investment memos | ✓ Fully automated | ✗ You write manually |
| AI conducts market research | ✓ Comprehensive | ✗ You research manually |
| AI creates board presentations | ✓ Automated | ✗ You create in PowerPoint |
| AI profiles companies | ✓ 70M+ deep profiles | ✗ You research manually |
| AI analyzes strategic fit | ✓ Automated analysis | ✗ You analyze manually |
| AI answers questions (chatbot) | ✓ Plus generates deliverables | ✓ Basic chat |
| Deal pipeline tracking | ✓ Included | ✓ Core strength |
| Task & workflow management | ✓ Yes | ✓ Extensive |
| Virtual Data Room (VDR) | ○ Basic storage | ✓ Advanced VDR |
| Document management | ✓ Standard | ✓ Comprehensive |
| Platform architecture | AI-native (2024) | Legacy + AI bolt-on |
| Transparent pricing | ✓ Published online | ✗ Sales call required |
| Free trial option | ✓ Full free tier | ✗ Demo only |
| Monthly subscription | ✓ Available | ✗ Custom contracts |
| Typical annual cost | $5K-$20K | $15K-$75K+ |
But understand: Midaxo's AI won't automate your M&A work. It's a chat interface for data you create manually. If you need AI to reduce workload (not just organize it), the architecture isn't there.
Unfiltered feedback from M&A professionals evaluating both platforms
"The demo made it sound like AI would do everything. Reality: it answers questions about data I manually enter. I'm still spending 3 days per memo. How is this supposed to save time?"
— Director M&A, Healthcare (Midaxo Evaluation)
"Tried CorpDev.Ai while evaluating Midaxo. Asked it to generate an investment memo just to test. It actually did it. Comprehensive, sourced, professional. We never went back to the Midaxo demo."
— VP Corporate Development, SaaS
"Memos that took 3-4 days now take 15 minutes. Market research that was 1-2 weeks? 20 minutes. We're evaluating 5x more targets with the same team. That's what AI should do."
— Managing Director, Growth Equity
"Stuck in Midaxo contract for 8 more months. Added CorpDev.Ai for actual M&A work—research, analysis, memos. Midaxo is just document storage. Dropping it when contract ends."
— Head of M&A, Private Equity
"Midaxo: $52K/year for workflow tracking and a chatbot. CorpDev.Ai: $8K/year for actual automation. Even if Midaxo was free, the opportunity cost isn't worth it."
— Director CorpDev, Tech Company
"I'm an engineer. Midaxo is a 2014 CRUD app with an LLM wrapper. They can't add real automation without rebuilding everything. CorpDev.Ai was built for AI. That gap doesn't close."
— CTO turned CorpDev Lead
"Can your AI generate a complete investment memo for this company right now?"
Midaxo will say:
"Our AI can help you with research and answer questions about your memos. It's designed to augment your workflow, not replace it. You'll still create the memos yourself, and our AI will help you find information and summarize key points."
Translation: No, it can't. You do the work.
CorpDev.Ai will say:
"Yes. Give me the company name."
[8 minutes later]
"Here's your complete investment memo with executive summary, company analysis, market overview, strategic fit assessment, financials, risks, and recommendations. All insights cited with sources. What would you like me to refine?"
Translation: Yes. Watch.
One platform talks about AI. The other one shows you. That's the difference between AI features and AI automation. That's the difference between legacy retrofits and AI-native architecture.
No. Midaxo's AI is a chatbot that can answer questions about data you've manually entered and summarize documents you've uploaded. It cannot generate investment memos, conduct market research, create company profiles, or produce presentations. Those tasks remain fully manual.
This isn't a criticism of their engineering—it's an architectural limitation. Their platform was designed for humans to create content, not for AI to generate it. A chatbot on top can't change that foundation.
Because their entire platform architecture would need to be rebuilt. Their database schema expects manual data entry. Their workflows assume human content creation. Their data models weren't designed for AI-generated content. Adding real AI automation would require:
That's effectively rebuilding the product from scratch—a multi-year, $50M+ project that would disrupt their current business. So instead, they'll keep adding AI "features" on top while platforms built AI-native pull further ahead.
Midaxo doesn't publish pricing—you must schedule a sales call for custom quotes. Based on market feedback, typical contracts range from $15,000 to $75,000+ annually, depending on company size, modules needed, and negotiation. AI features may incur additional costs beyond base platform fees. CorpDev.Ai starts free with transparent published pricing: $5K-$20K annually for paid tiers.
It's a full free tier, not a trial. Start immediately—no credit card, no sales call required. Search companies, generate profiles, test the AI analyst. Corporate development teams at operating companies get extended free access to core features. Upgrade when you need advanced capabilities or higher usage. Try it while evaluating Midaxo to see the difference firsthand.
Depends on your needs:
Replace Midaxo: If your primary need is M&A research, analysis, company intelligence, and deliverable generation, CorpDev.Ai fully replaces Midaxo at lower cost with vastly superior AI automation.
Use both: If you heavily rely on Midaxo's advanced VDR features and have complex document management workflows already established, some teams use Midaxo for data room/workflow tracking and CorpDev.Ai for AI-powered research and analysis. But most teams find they don't need Midaxo once they experience true AI automation.
Start using CorpDev.Ai's free tier alongside Midaxo right now. Use CorpDev.Ai for research, investment memos, market analysis, and company profiling. Use Midaxo for whatever your contract requires. When your Midaxo contract expires, you'll have months of experience with CorpDev.Ai to make an informed decision about renewal. Zero risk.
AI models will definitely improve—GPT-5, Claude Opus 4, Gemini 2.0 are coming. But here's the thing: CorpDev.Ai benefits from those improvements immediately because we're AI-native. When GPT-5 launches, our entire platform gets smarter overnight.
Midaxo faces a different challenge: each AI advancement makes the gap between their architecture and what's possible even more obvious. Better models make AI automation more powerful—but they can't fix a platform not designed for automation. The architecture gap doesn't close; it widens.
That's exactly the point. Midaxo's 10-year head start is now their biggest liability in the AI era. They built an excellent workflow management platform for the pre-AI world. But "being around longer" means more legacy code, more architectural constraints, more customers dependent on old workflows.
CorpDev.Ai started with a blank slate in 2024, asking: "If AI can research, analyze, and write, what should an M&A platform look like?" We built that. Midaxo is asking: "How do we add AI features to a 10-year-old platform without breaking everything?" These are fundamentally different problems with fundamentally different outcomes.
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