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Regulatory intelligence, valuation practice, and AI in professional services. Quality threshold: would a Big 4 partner find this worth reading?
Regulatory Intelligence
IBBI's November 2025 Discussion Paper: What Standardized Report Formats Mean for Valuers
IBBI proposes standardized formats for the first time. We analyze the implications for registered valuers and how template-driven AI generation aligns with the new requirements.
March 2026Post-SEBI MB Prohibition: The New Landscape for Rule 11UA DCF Certifications
SEBI's December 2024 prohibition on merchant bankers performing valuation work has reshaped who does what. Here's the new landscape.
March 2026India's Four New Labour Codes and Their Impact on Business Valuations
Labour cost assumptions in DCF models need updating. We map the new codes to valuation methodology.
March 2026DPDP Act 2023: Data Compliance for Valuation Firms
What the Digital Personal Data Protection Act means for firms handling client financial data in valuation engagements.
Valuation Practice
The Anatomy of a Defensible DCF: What Tax Authorities Actually Scrutinize
Based on analysis of I-T assessment orders and ITAT rulings, the specific DCF assumptions and methodology choices that draw the most scrutiny.
March 2026Comparable Company Selection for Indian Private Companies: A Practitioner's Framework
A systematic approach to identifying, screening, and documenting comparable companies when the subject is unlisted.
March 2026WACC Construction in India: Risk-Free Rate, ERP, and Beta Best Practices
The definitive guide to building a defensible WACC for Indian statutory valuations, with sourcing for every component.
March 2026The 5,675 Crore Opportunity: Why India's Valuation Market Is Ripe for Transformation
500,000+ reports per year, 6,096 IBBI registered valuers, and an industry still running on Excel. The market analysis.
AI in Professional Services
From 15 Days to 2 Hours: How AI Is Reshaping Statutory Valuations
The technical architecture behind an 8-step workflow that compresses weeks of valuation work into hours.
March 2026The Copilot Model: Why AI Won't Replace Valuers but Will Make the Best Ones 10x More Productive
Three tiers of AI assistance and why the human-in-the-loop gate model is the right architecture for regulated work.
March 2026Building Trust in AI-Assisted Valuations: The Role of Audit Trails, Citations, and Transparency
How deterministic math pipelines, source attribution, and gate-based confirmation create defensible AI-assisted output.
March 2026Zero LLM Variance: Why Evaaluate Uses Deterministic Computation for All Financial Math
LLMs are great at research and drafting. They should never do arithmetic. How we separated the two.
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