29 June, 2026
New AI capability inside DealForge helps deal teams screen opportunities, benchmark pricing, surface market outliers, and build stronger IC narratives from verified private markets data.
CEPRES, the private markets investment data and analytics platform, today announced the launch of DealLens, a new AI-powered capability now available in DealForge.
Built for private equity GPs, DealLens brings AI-generated insight directly into DealForge’s Market Insights module, helping deal teams turn deal comps, valuation trends, growth benchmarks, market outliers, and value creation patterns into clear, natural-language insight.
DealForge gives GPs access to granular private markets deal intelligence. DealLens helps users understand what that data is really telling them.
For deal teams under pressure to screen faster, price smarter, and defend investment assumptions, DealLens helps accelerate the path from market data to investment conviction. Across all 26 Market Insights charts, users can quickly interrogate what the data shows, where the strongest benchmark signals sit, which comps support the thesis, where pricing may be misaligned, and what story should be taken to IC.
“Private equity teams do not need more charts. They need faster access to the signal inside the charts,” said Christopher Godfrey, President at CEPRES. “DealLens brings AI-generated deal intelligence directly into DealForge, helping GPs move faster from comps and benchmarks to sharper underwriting questions, stronger IC narratives, and greater conviction.”
With DealLens inside DealForge, private equity GPs can:
Screen opportunities faster by surfacing relevant market signals, benchmark patterns, and outliers across DealForge’s Market Insights charts.
Benchmark pricing with more confidence by interpreting valuation multiples, deal comps, growth trends, and market positioning in context.
Sharpen underwriting by identifying where a company, subsector, or transaction may diverge from relevant private markets benchmarks.
Build stronger IC narratives by translating complex market data into clear, natural-language investment insight.
Challenge assumptions earlier by using AI-generated analysis to question pricing, risk, value creation potential, and market comparables before conviction is built.
Reduce manual chart interpretation so deal teams can spend less time decoding the data and more time acting on it.
The launch strengthens DealForge’s role as a deal intelligence platform for GPs. DealForge is designed to help private equity teams benchmark opportunities using granular private markets data across buyout and growth transactions, subsectors, valuation metrics, operating performance, and value creation patterns. DealLens adds an AI insight layer that helps users move from “what am I looking at?” to “what does this mean for the deal?” faster.
Unlike generic AI tools or products built on scraped PDFs, websites, public estimates, or broad market commentary, DealLens is grounded in CEPRES’ verified private markets data ecosystem. That gives deal teams AI-generated insight connected to the private markets workflows they actually rely on — from deal screening and market mapping to pricing validation and IC preparation.
DealLens is now available in DealForge.
To see how DealLens can help your team move from deal comps to deal conviction faster, request a DealForge demo at https://cepres.com/contact
