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Manera Strategy
The corp dev / M&A / strategy intel desk at $999/mo.
For: Head of strategy · Corp dev · Chief economist
Mergermarket charges $48K/yr. Derwent starts at $10K/seat. Eurasia Group country reports run ~$30K. Run all three workflows — deal flow, IP/FTO, country risk — plus component-level supply-chain disruption simulation, on one mesh, at $999/mo. Same authoritative public sources (SEC EDGAR, USPTO, World Bank, OFAC, antitrust regulators) with Claude reasoning and cross-mesh synthesis on top.
The corp-dev / strategy desk problem
Cross-jurisdiction strategy intelligence is locked behind enterprise contracts most mid-market and SMB strategy teams cannot unlock:
- Mergermarket — $48,000+/yr enterprise minimum for sell-side M&A deal-activity intelligence. Single seats typically not offered.
- Derwent Innovation (Clarivate) — $10,000+/seat/yr for IP / patent / FTO research. Calibrated for IP departments at large corporates.
- Eurasia Group / EIU country-risk subscriptions — $10K–$30K+/yr for country-risk reports + commentary.
- Resilinc (supply-chain risk) — $50,000+/yr for enterprise supply-chain monitoring.
- Bain / McKinsey / Roland Berger scenario consultancies — $50,000+ per engagement for a single market-disruption scenario report.
- Manual cross-referencing across SEC EDGAR + 10 patent offices + World Bank + OFAC + antitrust regulators — 8–15 hours per week of senior-analyst time per workstream.
The strategy desk needs all four lenses (deals, IP, supply-chain, country risk) at once because they're correlated: a patent grant matters more if the assignee just filed a tender offer; a supply-chain vulnerability matters more if the upstream country just escalated geopolitically. Manera Strategy is the only stack designed to surface those correlations directly — and to do it at a price the single-approver-no-procurement strategy lead can sign for.
What's included — the four sub-apps
Replaces: Mergermarket · Bloomberg M&A · Capital IQ M&A
13 free public M&A sources ingested every refresh cycle — SEC EDGAR (8-K, 425, S-4, SC 13D/G, DEF 14A, SC TO-T), FTC + DOJ + EU Competition DG + UK CMA + Canada Competition Bureau, plus Reuters Deals. AI-classified by stage / size bucket / industry, deduplicated, and re-rendered into a profile-tailored daily briefing. Activist 13D filings, tender offers, and antitrust press surfaced as their own streams.
Replaces: Derwent Innovation · LexisNexis PatentAdvisor
17 authoritative IP sources — USPTO + EPO + WIPO + CIPO + CNIPA + JPO + KIPO + UKIPO + USPTO PTAB Decisions, plus 7 IP-news outlets (Law360 IP, IPWatchdog, JUVE Patent Europe, etc.). Auto-tagged by 8 tech sectors and 5 litigation types. Daily AI briefing connects today's grants and oppositions to your competitor list and product roadmap. Cross-mesh: a patent grant + an antitrust complaint + a flagship product mapped in ProductDNA = one intelligence event, not three.
Replaces: Panjiva · Resilinc · Sourcemap (the SMB-affordable layer)
Map any product down to tier-4 mining countries — type "iPhone 16" or "Tesla Model 3" or "insulin," Claude returns the chain. 2,196 companies pre-mapped across 10 supply chains, 15 critical vulnerabilities surfaced (ASML EUV, TSMC advanced-chip share, China rare earths). 10 pre-loaded disruption scenarios (Taiwan Invasion, US-China decoupling, China rare-earth ban) with calibrated probabilities, plus custom-scenario simulation. Threshold alerts with Claude-generated mitigation playbooks (immediate / 30-day / 90-day actions) and per-output AI confidence scores.
NEIP — National Economic Intelligence Platform
Replaces: Bloomberg country research · EIU · Capital IQ Pro country module
99 countries · 2,150 indicators · 10 active sanctions regimes · 10 active geopolitical conflicts. GDP, trade flows, currency stability, sovereign debt, fiscal policy, recent central-bank / finance-ministry / trade-ministry declarations. Sanctions cascade timeline shows how a sanctions event ripples through dependent economies. Bilateral-trade visualization (Chart.js) and critical-minerals HHI concentration views. Sources: World Bank, IMF, BIS, IIF, OFAC, UN Comtrade — same authoritative public data Bloomberg charges $24K for.
Cross-app combos — the M&A diligence stack
The reason Manera Strategy is more than the sum of its parts: the four sub-apps share a mesh layer. A signal in one becomes context in the others, automatically. The full M&A diligence flow looks like this:
Step 1 — M&AScope surfaces the deal: "Acquirer X just filed Form 425 announcing intent to merge with Target Y in semiconductor capital equipment, $4.2B announced value, FTC second-request risk flagged from cross-jurisdiction antitrust monitoring."
Step 2 — PatentPulse runs the FTO check: "Target Y's patent portfolio: 847 active grants across USPTO + EPO + JPO. 12 grants overlap claim-language with Acquirer X's existing portfolio (claim-FTO conflict). 3 ongoing PTAB inter-partes reviews against Target Y's flagship process patents."
Step 3 — ProductDNA runs the scenario sim: "Combined entity's flagship product depends on tier-2 supplier in Taiwan (61% share). Disruption scenarios: Taiwan crisis → 8-month revenue interruption, US-China decoupling → 14% COGS increase, both simulated with mitigation playbooks."
Step 4 — NEIP runs the country-risk overlay: "Target Y has 22% revenue exposure to two sanctions-trending economies. OFAC SDN list cross-checked against subsidiaries. Bilateral-trade graph shows the US-China decoupling impact at the country level over the deal's 5-year integration window."
Four workstreams, one mesh, one $999/mo subscription. The output that would normally take a banker + IP counsel + supply-chain consultant + macro analyst — surfaced as a single cross-linked briefing the strategy lead reads in 10 minutes.
Industry comparison — total incumbent stack vs Mesh Tier
| Vendor | Workstream | List price |
|---|
| Mergermarket | M&A deal-flow intelligence | $48,000/yr |
| Derwent Innovation (Clarivate) | Patent / IP / FTO | $10,000+/seat/yr |
| Eurasia Group / EIU | Country & geopolitical risk | $30,000/yr |
| Bain/McKinsey scenario engagement | One-off market-disruption scenario | $50,000+ per |
| Incumbent stack total | 4 workstreams, 4 vendors | ~$140,000/yr |
| Manera Strategy (Mesh Tier) | All 4 workstreams · 1 vendor · cross-linked | $11,988/yr |
~11.7× cheaper — and the incumbent stack still doesn't give you cross-app correlation. Mergermarket doesn't know what Derwent knows. Eurasia doesn't know what Resilinc knows. Manera Strategy is the only desk where a deal filing, a patent grant, a supply-chain vulnerability, and a sanctions event compose into one briefing.
What Manera Strategy is NOT
- NOT a deal-comparable engine (yet). EV/EBITDA multiples, advisor league tables, curated PE/VC pipeline data — these are Mergermarket's structural strengths and a current Manera Strategy feature gap. Tracked on the roadmap; not the v1 use case.
- NOT investment-banking advice. M&AScope reports on filings and antitrust press; it does not say "buy this name" or "this deal will close at $X." We are not a registered investment adviser. Use Manera Strategy as research-acceleration; engage a banker for the actual deal.
- NOT a securities-law substitute. A securities lawyer reviews the actual deal documents before you act. Manera Strategy accelerates the analyst's reading of the public record; it does not replace counsel.
- NOT a proprietary private-deal database. We monetise AI synthesis on top of free public sources (SEC, USPTO, World Bank, OFAC). PitchBook and Mergermarket monetise private-deal record access — different category.
Pricing — Mesh Tier
$999/mo · all four sub-apps · everything in the mesh
One subscription, billed monthly. Includes M&AScope + PatentPulse + ProductDNA + NEIP — plus every other Manera flagship (Cyber, Treasury, Legal, Real Estate, Trading, Talent Intel) for the same price. The Mesh Tier is the Middle Way: high enough to cover Claude inference COGS at healthy margin, low enough to clear the single-approver-no-procurement threshold for a strategy lead, head of corp dev, or chief economist.
Trust signals
Authoritative sourcesSEC EDGAR · USPTO · EPO · WIPO · World Bank · IMF · BIS · OFAC · UN Comtrade · 5 antitrust regulators. All public, all canonical, all cited.
Audit trailEvery ingested filing, patent event, country indicator, and sanctions update is timestamped and source-attributed. Verifiable lineage on every briefing.
Confidence-scored AIPer-output AI confidence (LOW/MED/HIGH with reasoning) on disruption simulations and scenario analysis — so you know rich-context guidance from thin-data heuristics.