How Acquiry Deal Intelligence works

Deal Intelligence methodology

A practitioner desk on public digital M&A. Two lanes, public documents only, labelled numbers, and a hard line between information and advice.

Published 16 Sep 2026 · Updated 22 Sep 2026 · Method changes only

Deal Intelligence is not investment, legal, tax or accounting advice. Every material fact is taken from documents that are already public, or from arithmetic on those documents. Read the independence and disclaimer before you treat a number as something you can act on.

What this desk is

Acquiry Deal Intelligence is a published research desk on material digital M&A. It is not a newswire, not a press-release reprint, and not a client memo. Each report explains a single announced transaction from the public record: what changed hands, why the businesses fit, how the combination could work, and which figures are disclosed versus derived.

The author is Joash Boyton, founder of Acquiry. The voice is a practitioner reading the documents, not a recap of other people's recaps.

This is not advice. Deal Intelligence is general information compiled from documents that are already public. It is not investment, legal, tax, accounting, valuation or financial-product advice. It is not a recommendation to buy, sell, hold, accept, reject or vote on anything. Read the full independence and disclaimer before you treat a number as something you can act on.

On weekdays the desk aims to publish two reports, not a dump of every rumour.

• HeadlineThe most material public M&A announcement of the day, in any sector, where the public record is strong enough to analyse.
• GamingThe best casino, iGaming, betting, lottery or games-related company transaction, any size, provided it is an actual acquisition, combination or take-private and not a rights deal, a property purchase, or a licence with no equity changing hands.

If a lane has nothing that meets the bar, that lane is skipped. Silence is better than a weak story.

Every material fact in a report has to live in a document a reader can open: an issuer announcement, an exchange filing, a merger agreement extract, a regulator notice, audited accounts, an investor presentation, or a named newswire that is reporting those documents. Acquiry does not use material non-public information, data-room files, client work product, or private conversations as the basis for Deal Intelligence.

Acquiry uses AI-driven monitoring to watch public announcements, filings and exchange notices as they appear, then cluster duplicate coverage of the same deal. Selection, reading of the documents, and the published analysis are editorial. Technology does not invent a price, an enterprise value, or a close date that the issuer did not publish.

The full source rules are on Public sources.

1. 01News leadWhat happened, in the tense that matches public status. Announced is not completed.
2. 02Deal summary tableParties, consideration if published, status, jurisdiction, expected close if the issuer gave one.
3. 03AnalysisCapability, fit, distribution, technology, customers, what the combination could do. Headings are edited English, not a consulting slide.
4. 04DiagramsAbstract tech-finance topologies that map the argument in that section. They are illustrations of structure, not photographs of casinos or offices, and not a second set of secret numbers.
5. 05Source ledgerNumbered outbound links to the actual documents. Body citations jump to that ledger.

Figures are labelled as disclosed, calculated from identified inputs, analysis, or undisclosed. If the issuer did not publish an enterprise value, Acquiry does not print one and call it a fact. See Numbers.

• Not a substitute for the issuer's own announcement or for professional advice.
• Not coverage of every deal Acquiry hears about in mandate work.
• Not a guarantee of search rankings, news inclusion, or anyone else's citation.
• Not a model portfolio, a price target, or a fairness opinion.
• Not a claim that diagrams, tables or structured data force a ranking outcome.

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