https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-combined-world-blockchain-ai-data-rooms-throw-up-oluseyi-opanubi

With the advent and mix of AI, smart contracts and datarooms, Managers of data rooms are no longer glorified secretaries running around collating documents to answer a preset set of questions either drafted by the buy-side or sell-side solicitors. There is a certain deja vu in the world of AI when one looks at what the dataroom manager is doing. If there is anything AI is good at its studying questions and asking questions of a set database or in this instance a corporate archive.

I imagine Intralinks in the not too distance future being an encrypted software patch which acts as a bridge between company archives and the Intralinks AI/Exchanges. The patch acting as somewhat of a bridge between the company archives and Intralinks AI/Exchanges whose sole objective it is to query the company archives through the patch installed in the company archives. In so doing the the questions posed are answered directly from the corporate archive. Mirror images of the documents that answer the questions posed are formed in the exchange setup by Intralinks AI. A folder structure based on the type of industry sector that the target company operates in is gradually filled in Intralinks Exchange.

What is the job of the manager you may ask? Well no more than a quality assurance officer am afraid. However, quality assurance is critical and thus needs some tools to ensure its done just right. Going into the exchange need not be the standard login into a two dimensional screen. Instead, it is a choice of your virtual reality bot or avatar, your holographic tour guide or an alexa type voice assistant for quality assurance on the go.

I am amazed at what is feasible with AI and attendant technology but what is even more interesting is how it will make M&A so much more low cost and enable MLS to do what it does best, serve the SMEs.

In serving the SMEs, backbone of any thriving economy, we need to add what I refer to as fairy dust, SMART CONTRACTS. The smart contracts lead us to a world formed from blockchain in which we truely enable transactions to occur at a fast rate but clinically without us emotional beings getting in the way.

Seyi Opanubi, MLS by Oladipo Opanubi and Intralinks, 0803-301-9519