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Dakota for Business Consultants

Your GP Clients Need Better Deal Flow. You Can Deliver It. If You Have the Right Data.

The consultants who win the most valuable PE mandates don't just have experience — they have intelligence nobody else can bring to the table. GP performance benchmarks. The full private company universe. Real-time transaction flow. Dakota has all of it. Most consultants have no idea.

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26,000+
GP Accounts
14,000+
Funds with Performance
640,000+
Private Companies
20,000+
Verified Transactions
$2,995 per user per year, full platform access
Less than the cost of a single industry conference. All four datasets. No enterprise contract.
The Consultant's Disadvantage

Your GP Clients Are Paying for Your Judgment. Your Judgment Is Only as Good as Your Data.

Business consultants working with private equity firms are asked to do things that require complete market intelligence: identify acquisition targets in a sector, benchmark a GP's fund performance against peers, evaluate the competitive landscape around a portfolio company, assess whether a potential investment thesis is crowded or wide open.

Most do it with incomplete data — a mix of industry reports, public filings, LinkedIn research, and whatever their client already knows. The answer they deliver is correct in outline but thin in specifics. It is the answer every other consultant gives because every other consultant is working from the same partial picture. Dakota changes the picture entirely.

The consultant who walks into a PE client meeting knowing which funds in the sector are outperforming their vintage-year peers, which companies are most likely acquisition targets, and which GPs are most active in that space right now — that consultant doesn't need to pitch. They demonstrate the value in the first fifteen minutes. Dakota is what makes that possible, at a price that makes the ROI conversation very short.
Gui Costin, CEO & Founder, Dakota
Typical 
A few hundred companies in a CRM, manually updated
With Dakota: 640,000+ private companies, verified and updated daily
Typical
Published fund returns from manager materials
With Dakota: 14,000+ funds with verified IRR, TVPI, DPI, and RVPI
Typical 
Deal news from press releases and trade publications
With Dakota: 20,000+ verified transactions with full participant detail
Typical  
Known GPs from network and prior client work
With Dakota: 26,000+ GP accounts across every strategy, verified contacts
Typical
$50K–$200K per year enterprise contracts for comparable data
With Dakota: $2,995 per user per year, full platform access
The Three Datasets That Change Everything

GP Data. Performance Data. Portfolio Company Data. None of It Exists Anywhere Else at This Price.

Dakota's value for business consultants comes down to three datasets, each one individually transformative, together unmatched in the market.

26,000+
Dataset One: GP Intelligence
The complete general partner universe, PE, VC, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, mapped with investment strategy detail, fund history, and verified individual contacts for the partners and MDs who make decisions. Walk into any GP conversation knowing who you're talking to, what they're running, and how their funds have performed.
26,000+ GP accounts · 95,000+ verified contacts · Fund history and strategy detail
14,000+
Dataset Two: Fund Performance
Verified performance data on 14,000+ private funds with IRR, TVPI, DPI, and RVPI, and custom benchmarking technology that lets you build any peer group by vintage year, strategy, geography, and fund size. Tell a GP client exactly where their fund stands relative to every comparable fund in the market.
IRR, TVPI, DPI, RVPI · Custom peer group benchmarking · Vintage, strategy, geography, fund size filters
640,000+
Dataset Three: Portfolio Company Intelligence
The complete private company universe, 143,000+ sponsor-backed portfolio companies and 500,000+ independent businesses, plus 20,000+ verified transactions growing at 2,000 per month. Every company mapped by sector, sub-industry, geography, and ownership structure.
640,000+ private companies · 20,000+ verified transactions · ~2,000 new deals monthly
Dataset One

GP Intelligence — 26,000+ Firms. Every Strategy. Verified Contacts.

The market intelligence layer that lets consultants walk into any GP conversation knowing who they're talking to, what they're running, and how their funds have performed.

New Business Development
Find GP clients your competitors haven't reached
Search 26,000+ GP accounts by strategy, sector, geography, fund stage, and AUM to identify PE firms whose consulting needs match your practice's expertise, before they put a project out to bid.
26,000+ GP accounts · Strategy and sector filters
Client Intelligence
Know every GP client deeper than they expect
Walk into client meetings knowing their full fund history, portfolio composition, co-investor relationships, and transaction record. The briefing that used to take a week of research takes twenty minutes in Dakota.
Full fund history · Co-investor mapping · Transaction record
Market Mapping
Map the competitive GP landscape for any sector thesis
For clients evaluating a new sector or geographic expansion, Dakota shows every active GP in that space — who's well-established, who's new, what fund vintages are in play, and what deal activity has looked like over the past 24 months.
Sector mapping · Fund vintage tracking · Deal activity history
Co-Investor Identification
Build co-investment lists your GP clients can actually use
Identify which GPs are most active as co-investors in your client's target sectors, with verified contacts for the specific partners responsible for co-investment decisions. A deliverable that used to take weeks now takes hours.
Co-investor mapping · Partner-level contacts · Sector filtering
Dataset Two

Fund Performance — 14,000+ Funds. IRR, TVPI, DPI, RVPI. Custom Benchmarking.

The most powerful analytical tool in private markets consulting, and almost entirely unknown at most firms. This is the dataset that lets a consultant tell a GP client exactly where their fund stands relative to every comparable fund in the market.

Tell Your GP Clients Exactly Where They Stand
Build a custom peer group for any fund — same vintage year, same strategy, same geography, comparable fund size — and show your client precisely how their returns rank against the universe. This conversation used to require a competitor's enterprise contract. Now it's at your fingertips at $2,995 per user per year.
Use CaseCustom peer groups · Vintage, strategy, geography, fund size filters
Prepare GPs for the Questions LPs Will Ask
LPs benchmark every fund they evaluate. A consultant who has already run that benchmarking — and can show a GP client exactly how their fund looks against the peer universe — is delivering the kind of preparation that directly increases the probability of a successful raise.
Use CasePre-fundraise benchmarking · LP-standard analysis
Benchmark as a Strategy Input, Not Just a Reporting Metric
Performance relative to peers informs every major strategic decision a GP makes — fund sizing, deployment pace, fee structure, vintage timing. A consultant with verified benchmarks on 14,000+ funds can ground those conversations in data rather than convention.
Use CaseFund sizing · Deployment pace · Fee structure benchmarking
Identify Where Your Client Has a Performance Advantage
Finding a GP's genuine performance advantage — and helping them articulate it with verified data — is one of the highest-value things a consultant can deliver. Dakota's benchmarking technology makes that analysis rigorous, defensible, and fast.
Use Case14,000+ funds · IRR, TVPI, DPI, RVPI · Verified data
Dataset Three

Portfolio Company Intelligence — 640,000+ Companies. 20,000+ Transactions.

The database that makes the difference between a recommendation and a recommendation backed by the full market picture. For consultants advising GPs on acquisition strategy, sector research, add-on identification, and portfolio analysis.

Deal Sourcing
Find acquisition targets your GP client hasn't seen
Search 640,000+ private companies by sector, sub-industry, geography, and sponsor status to surface acquisition targets that match a client's investment thesis. Go beyond the 200 companies already in their CRM to the complete market of companies that fit the mandate.
640,000+ companies · Sector and geography filters · Sponsor status
Market Sizing
Build credible market maps in hours, not weeks
For any sector thesis, Dakota shows the full universe of relevant private companies — sponsor-backed and independent — with revenue estimates, employee counts, ownership structure, and transaction history. A market map that used to take a team weeks of manual research now takes hours.
Revenue estimates · Ownership structure · Full transaction history
Transaction Intelligence
Know who has been buying what — and when
20,000+ verified transactions with full participant visibility — buyers, sellers, lenders, advisors, investment banks, and law firms. For consultants advising on M&A timing, competitive dynamics, or sector entry, this transaction history shows exactly how active a market has been and who the key players are.
20,000+ transactions · Full participant visibility · ~2,000 new deals monthly
Add-On Identification
Surface bolt-on opportunities for existing portfolio companies
Dakota's similar company engine maps the universe of businesses with comparable sector, industry, and sub-industry profiles to any portfolio company — systematically identifying the add-on acquisition candidates that PE clients need to build platform value.
Automated peer identification · Sector and sub-industry matching
Two Ways to Access the Data

Use It Directly. Or Embed It Into Your Own Systems via API.

Dakota delivers the same GP, performance, and private company intelligence in two modes — a clean platform interface for direct use, and a comprehensive API suite for consulting firms that want to embed the data into their own proprietary workflows, models, and client-facing tools.

Option One: Dakota Marketplace Platform
Full access. No technical integration required. Productive from day one.
The full Dakota dataset accessible through a clean, searchable platform interface. Your team can search, filter, build lists, run benchmarks, and export data directly into your CRM or analysis tools from day one. Most consulting teams are productive within the first week.
→ Search 640,000+ companies by sector, geography, sponsor status, and size → Run custom performance benchmarks across 14,000+ private funds in seconds → Access verified GP contacts and fund details for all 26,000+ GP accounts → Export directly into Salesforce, DealCloud, HubSpot, Affinity, and Excel → Joe AI Report Builder generates account summaries and meeting prep in seconds
Option Two: Dakota API, Embed the Data Directly
For firms running proprietary models, client-facing databases, or internal research platforms.
Dakota's API suite delivers the same GP, performance, and private company intelligence programmatically, directly into your own systems. Stop manually pulling data into spreadsheets. Get it flowing automatically into the tools your team already uses to build client deliverables.
→ Private Company Data API, 640,000+ companies → GP Data API, 26,000+ GP accounts → Fund Performance API, 14,000+ funds → Transaction Intelligence API, 20,000++ deals → LP Data API, 258,955 accounts
Built for Every Firm Size

Whether You Have 2 Consultants or 2,000, the Data Delivers the Same Edge.

Dakota's value proposition scales across every consulting firm size — from solo practitioners and boutique shops focused on a specific PE niche to national and global consulting firms serving the full spectrum of private markets clients.

Large Consulting Firms
Institutionalize private markets intelligence across your entire practice.
For national and global consulting firms serving multiple PE clients simultaneously, Dakota becomes the data infrastructure underlying the private markets practice. The API delivers GP, performance, and company data directly into existing analytical systems. Teams across multiple offices work from the same verified, current dataset.
Mid-Size Consulting Firms
Move faster and deliver more than firms three times your size.
Mid-size and regional consulting firms use Dakota to close the research gap with larger competitors. When a boutique firm can produce verified performance benchmarks, a full sector company map, and a targeted acquisition list in a fraction of the time it takes a larger firm — the client notices. Dakota is how smaller teams punch above their weight consistently.
Boutique and Solo Practitioners
Level the playing field — completely — for $2,995 per year.
Independent consultants and boutique firms working with PE clients have historically had to work with whatever data they could piece together manually. At $2,995 per user per year, Dakota gives a solo practitioner access to the same GP intelligence, performance benchmarks, and private company data that a major consulting firm uses — without the enterprise contract, the implementation cycle, or the six-figure annual commitment.
What Every Firm Size Gets
Full platform access from day one. The same data that enterprise contracts charge $100K+ for.
No modules. No add-ons for performance data. No separate fee for transaction intelligence. One subscription. Full access to every dataset in the platform. Legacy data providers charge $50,000 to $200,000 per year for comparable private markets intelligence. Dakota delivers equal or better coverage at $2,995 per user per year.
Pricing and What's Included

Everything. At $2,995 Per User Per Year.

No modules. No add-ons. No enterprise procurement cycle. One subscription. Full access to every dataset in the platform. Most consulting teams are productive within the first week.

$2,995
Per User, Per Year — Full Platform Access
Legacy data providers charge $50,000 to $200,000 per year for comparable private markets intelligence. Dakota delivers equal or better GP data, performance benchmarks, and private company coverage at a price designed for every consulting professional — not just the practices that can justify a six-figure data budget.
No procurement cycle. No six-month implementation. Productive within the first week.
Any 1
Single Outcome Covers the Entire Annual Cost
One deal sourced for a PE client. One benchmark that wins a mandate. One competitive analysis that justifies a retainer renewal. Any single one of those outcomes covers the entire annual cost — many times over. This is not an enterprise procurement decision. It is a professional tool at a professional price.
A single acquisition target surfaced, a single benchmark that wins a mandate, a single competitive analysis — any one covers the full year.
20-30
Hours of Manual Research Eliminated Every Week
The average consultant without a reliable private markets database spends 20 to 30 hours per week on research that Dakota delivers in seconds — building company lists, verifying GP contacts, reading transaction records, piecing together performance benchmarks from manager materials.
1,000–1,500 hours per year per consultant returned to actual client work.
10x
Expansion in GP Client Coverage Universe
Most consulting teams are working from a list of 200 to 500 GPs they know from prior work and network relationships. Dakota delivers 26,000+ GP accounts with verified contacts on day one — opening sectors, geographies, and fund types that were invisible before. Expand GP client acquisition without adding headcount.
The complete GP universe across every strategy. PE, VC, private credit, real estate, infrastructure.
Full Platform Access Includes
✓  GP Intelligence, 26,000+ GP accounts, PE, VC, credit, real estate, infrastructure, verified contacts and fund history
✓  Fund Performance Data, 14,000+ funds with verified IRR, TVPI, DPI, and RVPI plus custom benchmarking
✓  Private Company Universe, 640,000+ companies including 143K+ sponsor-backed portcos and 500K+ independent businesses
✓  Transaction Intelligence, 20,000+ verified deals with full participant visibility, growing at 2,000 per month
✓  LP Database, 250,000+ LP accounts and 386,000+ verified contacts across every institutional channel
✓  CRM Integrations, Salesforce, HubSpot, DealCloud, Dynamo, Affinity, Snowflake, and more
✓  Joe AI Report Builder, Account summaries, meeting prep, and market analysis in seconds using live platform data
✓  API Access Available, Embed any dataset directly into your proprietary systems and client-facing tools
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See What Dakota Delivers for Your Consulting Practice.

A member of the Dakota team will follow up within one business day. No lengthy procurement cycles. No six-month onboarding. Most consulting teams are productive within the first week — with immediate access to 26,000+ GP accounts, 14,000+ funds with verified performance, 640,000+ private companies, and 20,000+ transactions.

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