M&A Zing (S3EP01) - AI for Due Diligence: Reccy’s Andrew Stace on Faster, Smarter Deals
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This week on The M&AZing we sat down with Andrew Stace, CEO of Reccy AI, to dissect how AI can remove bottlenecks in diligence. We covered how their “Insights Report” condenses a dataroom into 11 categories and 68 checks with sources, why speed to unconditional offers wins in 2026, and how to think about privacy and hallucination-proofing in real processes. If you’re buying in the UK or EU, this is the playbook for faster, cleaner bids.
Can AI cut due diligence time from weeks to days without missing red flags? For the first episode of Season 3, Gareth talks to Andrew Stace, CEO and co-founder of Reccy, about using AI to review data rooms, surface risks quickly, and help mid-market buyers reach conviction faster. We cover where AI genuinely helps, where guardrails matter, and how deal behaviour is shifting when bandwidth and fees are tight. Chapters built directly from the episode transcript.
You’ll learn:
• What Reccy actually does vs traditional data rooms
• How the “Insights Report” works and what it covers
• Privacy, hallucination control and accuracy trade-offs
• Why funds ration questions and slow-walk in hot markets
• How AI compresses the whole deal timeline and changes seller strategy
Chapters
[00.12] Andrew & Reccy
[09.45] The diligence pain AI can fix
[16.23] What Reccy actually does (pillars & workflow)
[20.24] Inside the Insights Report
[21.42] Privacy, guardrails, accuracy
[26.23] How funds triage questions now
[31.21] Reaching conviction faster with AI
[36.02] Compressed deal timelines
[40.08] Why build in the UK
[46.22] Pricing for the mid-market
[50.14] Where models and ROI are headed
[51.54] One due diligence tip you can use today
Links
Reccy AI: https://reccy.ai
Andrew Stace: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-stace/
BizCrunch: www.bizcrunch.co
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