Arc

Better intelligence for business acquisitions

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Arc: Business Acquisition Intelligence

About the Challenge

Agents are getting smarter, but they're culturally blind. They can reason, plan, and execute — but ask them what to recommend, what to build, or what people actually want, and they're guessing. This hackathon is about fixing that.

The problem

Buying a business is hard. You have to deal with finances, people and the minutiae in between. One of the core reasons buying a business fails is the cultural clash. A mismatch in brand identity, audience voice and corporate values can doom a deal from the start.
For most business owners, the cultural aspect analysis has been purely subjective. In today's data driven climate where every dollar counts, the gut-feel approach is insufficient.

The Solution

Arc is a human + AI system focused on driving smarter outcomes when planning to acquire a business. It achieves these by leveraging human insights + Google Gemini + Qloo Taste API to deliver insightful intelligence covering finanical intelligence, business intelligence, cultural Inisghts, risks and synergies and acquisition takeaways. The app provides rich and accurate cultural profiles thanks to the QLOO API. It has a solid fallback mechanism incase there is an issue with the initial query.

Key Features

Acquisition Analysis: The system acts as an experienced acquisition diligence analyst. It leverages a systematic workflow similar to that done by a top-tier analyst. Based on the users inputs, multiple sub-agents are used to perform the analysis. It also leverages web search, analyzing corporate culture, or querying the Qloo API. From the user's perspective, it looks at your company and the target company and can perform full acquisition analysis, cultural and audience due diligence, identify growth opportunities and find potential acquisition fits. The user can also provide supporting documents (pdf, csv, excel files)

Business Insights: It leverages qloo, gemini to get a busines centric view of a target company. It provides an executive overview, risk/synergy summary, potential company targets and fit scores. Very business focused.

Discovery: For discovery it uses a weighted approach to rank the top companies. It also leverages web search and qloo in its approach.
It finds the top 5 companies similar to the target company you are looking at. It ranks candidate companies based on Strategic Fit, Cultural Fit, Audience Expansion, Financial Fit, Risk, and Overall Fit. User can search for companies in North America (US and Canada).

Tech Stack

  • Backend: FastAPI, Python, Vercel
  • Frontend: jinja2, css, javascript
  • Core AI/Data:
    • Qloo API: For all cultural taste and persona data.
    • Google Gemini API (gemini 3.6 flash): Powers the reasoning and report synthesis.

Vision

Arc is the future of buying businesses. It combines human insight and the reasoning of LLMs. It leverages the best of both worlds to come to a smarter decision when planning to buy a business. The best part is it can be easily scaled into a SaaS model. It can also be modified to add more constraints and approaches espeically in an ever expanding business world. This can be the new standard for better data driven business acquisitions.

Built With

  • css3
  • fastapi
  • gemini-flash
  • qloo
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