Athena

Athena is the Deal Operating System for private equity, replaceing the entire fragmented stack — VDR, sourcing, diligence, IC memo — with one platform built around AI agents.

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Inspiration

The inspiration occurs in the night, when pushing through becomes the key to the success of working together. Thinking of areas in which modern finance is still in progress and was dominated by McKinsey, we assessed the discipline of caring to find facts before the sunk costs destroy value. With a diverse group we assessed on how we can leverage our skills and found in private equity.

What it does

Athena is the Deal Operating System for private equityhes. We replace the entire fragmented stack — VDR, sourcing, diligence, IC memo — with one platform built around AI agents. We're the only EU-native, audit-by-design platform built for the regulatory environment European mid-market PE actually operates in.

How we built it

Building of building a full-stack, event-driven AI system

Development Layer

  • Engineers build features in Next.js (v16) with React (v19) and TypeScript (v5)
  • UI styled with Tailwind CSS (v4)
  • Backend logic uses Prisma (v6) connected to Neon
  • AI workflows orchestrated via Inngest + Gemini 3 through Vercel AI SDK

hexagonal principles with a DB and API infrastructure

  • Vitest- Tests
  • ESLint- Linting
  • Prettier- Formatting
  • Conventional Commits- Commit standard

Continuous Integration (CI)

  • Install dependencies via pnpm (v10)
  • Run full test suite (Vitest)
  • Run lint + format checks
  • Build Next.js app

-> Automatic deployment via Vercel -> Each release tagged (CI Release Latest tag) -> Preview environments generated per PR

Runtime Execution (Production)

Running on:

  • Node.js (v24) with Live system flow:
  • User uploads deal data
  • Event triggered → Inngest workflow
  • AI agents (Gemini) process tasks:
  • parsing
  • validation
  • analysis
  • Data stored in Neon (Postgres)
  • Results returned via Next.js frontend

Challenges we ran into

time-structure

idea finding & execution

design challenge

find the right architectural design for the agencies

Accomplishments that we're proud of

growing together as a group and establishing a fruitful atmosphere

What we learned

executive faster. do not overthink things and communicate well. structure the work process.

What's next for Athena

assessing the its competitive technical advantage

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