US + SE Asia
M&A Screener

Most screening tools stop at the US or treat Southeast Asia as an afterthought. I wanted something that covers both on equal footing — screening for companies with a financial profile common among acquisition candidates across five markets, with currency-adjusted comparisons so a $2B Indonesian company and a $2B US company are actually being compared in the same terms.

The tool started as a Google Colab prototype and was rebuilt into a modular three-file Streamlit app with FX normalization, CSV export, a Claude API integration for deal memo generation, and a public GitHub repo.

To validate the tool wasn't just a black box, I took one output — PT AKR Corporindo (AKRA.JK), an Indonesian energy distribution and logistics company — and built a full manual investment memo on top of it, sourced from the company's actual FY2025 annual report rather than relying on the AI-generated draft alone.

AKRA surfaced with 19% YoY revenue growth, a 7.4x EV/EBITDA multiple, and a net cash position. The process also exposed a real data-quality issue I caught and corrected: the data provider reported ~34x debt/equity against the actual ~1.3x from the annual report. The memo also flagged a practical deal constraint — AKR's ownership is concentrated with a controlling family stake, meaning any real transaction would require negotiated buy-in rather than an open-market approach.