Eilla is an AI-native M&A advisory service for small and medium-sized businesses, built from the ground up around AI rather than adding it to a traditional advisory process. AI screens more than 8 million companies – scoring acquisition history, strategic synergies, and financial capacity – to identify the best-fit buyers for a given company, while generating bulge-bracket-quality deal materials (equity stories, teasers, confidential information memorandums, management presentations) in days rather than the weeks a traditional process takes.
The business model is inseparable from the AI capability here: Eilla operates success-fee-only, with no retainers, charging roughly 5% on a EUR10-20 million deal only once a transaction closes. That economics only works because AI screening and materials generation collapse the labor cost of running a deal process – traditional advisory firms can’t profitably serve companies below a certain deal size on a success-fee-only basis, and Eilla’s AI-driven cost structure is specifically what opens that market. The firm closed what’s reported as Europe’s first AI-native M&A deal, covered independently by Tech.eu and European Business Magazine.
Eilla targets companies in the $1M-$50M revenue range seeking an exit, with a dedicated landing page for companies under EUR5M in revenue, and reports generating offers in roughly six weeks. Advisors bring 18-plus years of combined M&A experience with a track record of $100 billion-plus in transaction value.
