The Rhythm of the Council
Four formats. One continuous year.
Ignite
· Quarterly · Full day · In person
The most concentrated room of the year. One day per quarter built around the deal lifecycle — keynotes, case studies, round tables, and unstructured time with the people who matter.
Impact Lab
· Monthly · Three hours · In person
The progress engine between Ignite events. A smaller room, a sharper focus — one question, one blocker, one idea worked through with peers.
Pulse
· Monthly · One hour · Online
Working prompts, live workflows, and tool configurations built in front of the room. The Council’s working library, built session by session.
Signal
· Monthly · Digital
The intelligence briefing. Patterns and provocations distilled from member and partner conversations — signal ahead of consensus, delivered to the full community.
The state of play.
Here is the uncomfortable truth about AI in M&A: everyone is talking about it, almost everyone is experimenting with it, and almost nobody is confident they are doing it right. The transition is moving faster than most organisations have a framework for. Not because M&A teams are behind.
Built differently.
With purpose.
The Council is built on a single conviction: the next decade of dealmaking will be defined by the M&A and corporate-development teams that master the intersection of artificial intelligence, technology, and transaction strategy.
Everyone is talking about AI in M&A. Almost everyone is experimenting with it. Almost nobody is confident they are doing it right.
Two Lenses on AI in M&A
Institutional
Strategic
Your firm's Al stack, roadmap and capability
- at deal-team scale
AI STACK
ROADMAP
CAPABILITY
Personal
Operational
Your daily prompts, plays and workflows
-built for live deals
PROMPTS
PLAYS
WORKFLOWS
A FRAMEWORK FOR DEALMAKERS
What We're Building Next
We are building the infrastructure for in-house M&A teams operating in AI transition.
The Toolkit
Two proprietary tools, built for the work itself.
Local Chapters
In-person Council gatherings across NYC, Chicago, London, Frankfurt, Dubai and Hong Kong.
The Council Prompt Library
A peer-built, member-curated vault of prompts, frameworks and workflows already in use inside in-house M&A teams.
The Programme suite
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Quarterly conference (Ignite) — “Ignite the ideas that impact the deal.”
Cadence: Quarterly, full day, in person.
Proposition: Once a quarter, the Council convenes for one full day around a single deal stage and a single question — what does genuine AI elevation of this process actually look like, and what would it take to build it? Members leave with one high-impact priority, the business case to pursue it, and the clarity to know exactly what to do next. This is not a conference. It is a working session, and the work is done in the room.
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Monthly breakfast (Impact Lab) — “Where intelligence meets impact.”
Cadence: Monthly, breakfast, in person.
Proposition: Before the day claims your attention, there is a window. Impact Lab is built inside it. Once a month, a deliberately small group of M&A and corp dev teams convenes around one discipline — not to understand what is possible, but to build the case for it. Members leave with the language and the confidence to take the argument back to their organisation.
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Monthly online session (Pulse) — “Build it together. Use it tomorrow.”
Cadence: Monthly, one hour, online.
Proposition: Once a month, for one hour, teams bring what they are actually running — the prompts, the workflows, the tool configurations tested in live deal environments — and put them in front of the room. One member opens with a live demonstration. The room sharpens it. What emerges goes into a growing members-only library. You arrive with a question. You leave with something that works.
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Monthly newsletter (Signal) — “The intelligence that drives impact.”
Cadence: Monthly, digital. Free to subscribers through 2026; member-gated from Q1 2027.
Proposition: Signal is the Council’s monthly intelligence edition. It is not a roundup of industry news. It is the distillation of hundreds of member and partner conversations — the patterns, the provocations, and the intelligence sitting just ahead of where the consensus is heading. M&A specific, always. The kind of read that does not merely inform — it prompts.
Pulse — Recurring Summary Block
M&A Prompt Meet — every month, online
Monthly online session (Pulse)
Every month, MAIC runs a live online session built around the M&A Prompt Library. Members and registered guests join to see new prompts and prompt workflows demonstrated on real corporate M&A and corp dev tasks — contributed by member practitioners and commissioned prompt engineers. Each session is 45 minutes, online, and free to members.
→ Register for the next session — link TBC
Diagnostic Toolkit
AI Maturity Index — Coming Q4 2026
A proprietary Council diagnostic that maps a corporate M&A function’s current AI position against the trajectory to full operational maturity. Output is a structured roadmap covering priority actions, quick wins, capability gaps, and the business case for sequenced investment.
Delivered as the Council’s own canvas, calibrated against a group-wide benchmark of peer functions.
Jobs-to-be-Done Canvas — Coming Q4 2026
A structured canvas mapping every core task and activity across the M&A deal lifecycle against the available execution options — desktop AI applications, enterprise platforms, or no-change-as-is.
Output is a defensible deployment view for each task, calibrated against a group-wide benchmark of how peer functions are sequencing their AI choices.
Prompt Library — Coming Q4 2026
A curated and vetted library of prompts and prompt workflows built specifically for M&A and corporate development tasks. Two contribution streams feed it: member practitioners submitting field-tested prompts from live deal work, and external prompt engineers commissioned by the Council. New entries are demonstrated monthly through Pulse sessions. The Library compounds in value as members contribute.