Deal Autopsy

Each company failure begins not in the press release but in a single financing decision made months or years earlier—a clause nobody argued about, a preference structure that seemed reasonable at the time, a covenant that looked like boilerplate. Deal Autopsy reconstructs these moments in forensic detail, following the paperwork from the conference room to the liquidation. Reported like a case file with two voices—one building the chronology, one pricing the cost—these are stories where the documents saw the ending coming first.