Quido
Quido is an Italian AI platform that automates research, analysis and reporting on privately held companies for private equity, M&A, investment banking and advisory teams, combining registry data with an AI agent, one-pagers and shared deal flow.
What is Quido?
Quido is a company and financial intelligence platform built by Quido S.r.l. in Milan for the people who work on private capital transactions: private equity, M&A, investment banking and advisory. Its founders, Francesco Calia and Lorenzo Bergadano, describe it as a technological co-pilot, and the phrase carries a deliberate limit. The platform automates the work that precedes a decision and leaves the decision itself alone. It issues no investment recommendations and does not stand in for the diligence process. The data perimeter is Italian and stated plainly: public sources such as the Chamber of Commerce and filed statements, combined with proprietary data kept current in real time. What Quido adds is the normalisation that usually eats an analyst's afternoon. It reclassifies line items onto a common scheme so companies filing under different accounting practice become comparable, corrects registered activity codes against what a company actually sells, unpicks ownership that runs through intermediate holdings, and links individuals to the deals they took part in. Every figure stays connected to the source it came from, which is what allows the output to enter an investment committee document without being redone by hand. Six pieces make up the product. Multi-criteria search filters companies on sector, size, geography and financial signals with ranked results. A company profile assembles reclassified accounts, KPIs, peer comparison, corporate structure and news automatically. An AI agent answers requests for a sector analysis, a target shortlist or a memo, returning structured sourced answers. A shared deal flow board carries every transaction the team is running, with custom stages, filters, ownership and follow-ups. Automated reports produce one-pagers and memos in the firm's own format. Underneath sits continuously refreshed financial data. Two access routes sit alongside the web application. A native MCP server exposes the same data read-only inside assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT, under the platform's own permissions. Mobile apps for iOS and Android carry search, one-pagers and deal updates. A REST API is included for custom integrations. Access is contractual throughout: accounts are created by Quido and there is no self-registration.
What it does
- Search millions of Italian companies by sector, size, geography and financial signals
- Open a company one-pager with reclassified accounts, KPIs, peer comparison, ownership and news
- Ask an AI agent for a sector study, a target shortlist or a summary memo, with sources attached
- Track the whole team's deal flow on a shared board with custom stages, filters and follow-ups
- Generate one-pagers, reclassified financials and memos in the firm's own format
- Query the same data from Claude or ChatGPT through the native read-only MCP server
- Review companies and deal updates on iOS and Android
When to use Quido / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Quido is the right fit.
When to use Quido
- Private equity teams running origination, screening and portfolio monitoring on Italian mid-market targets
- M&A and corporate finance advisers who rebuild financials, ownership chains and peer sets for every mandate
- Investment banking analysts and associates who spend their days normalising filed accounts by hand
- Commercial and corporate bankers assessing counterparties, and credit teams that need traceable figures
- Firms that want one flat annual fee with unlimited seats instead of per-user licences and credit packs
When not to use Quido
- Anyone outside a contracted client organisation: there is no self-service sign-up and no public trial
- Teams researching companies outside Italy, since the published data perimeter is Italian registry sources
- Buyers who need a published price before opening a conversation, as no rate is disclosed anywhere
- Investors looking for automated recommendations, which the vendor explicitly refuses to provide
- Organisations whose procurement requires a signed DPA or an ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certificate, none of which is published
How to use Quido
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Request a demo through the form linked from every call to action on the site; there is no public sign-up
- Sit through a dedicated session with the Quido team, presented as commitment-free and product-first
- Agree commercial terms, since access is granted only to client organisations under contract
- Have Quido provision the accounts for your firm, as users cannot register themselves
- Sign in through Auth0, which checks that your organisation is enabled before letting you through
- Search for a company on sector, size, geography or financial signals, and open its one-pager
- Ask the AI agent for a sector study, a shortlist or a memo, and follow the sources it cites
- Move the names that clear your filter onto the shared deal flow board and assign owners and stages
- Generate one-pagers, reclassified accounts and memos in your firm's format and export to PDF, Word or Excel
- Connect the MCP server to Claude or ChatGPT, install the mobile app, or build on the REST API
Pros & Cons
Pros
- One flat annual fee with unlimited users, searches, analyses and reports, and no credit packs
- Onboarding, training, support, MCP, mobile and API access are all included at no extra charge
- Every figure stays traceable to its source, which is what makes the output usable in committee papers
- An unconditional commitment that client material never enters model training, repeated across three pages
- European infrastructure with encryption at rest and in transit
- Six processors are named individually, each with its own transfer note
- Real depth on Italian private companies, a segment generalist tools cover poorly
Cons
- No price is published anywhere: no amount, no range, no billing unit
- The site publishes no terms and conditions at all, which leaves the commercial contract invisible
- No free plan, no free trial and no self-registration; the only way in is a sales conversation
- Data coverage is centred on Italy and the site documents no other country
- No data processing agreement is published or offered on request
- No security certification is claimed, and there is no trust or security page
- A REST API is sold as included, yet no public API documentation exists
Pricing & Plans
There is no free plan and no free trial, and no price point is published. Quido is sold as a single flat annual fee covering the entire firm, with unlimited users and unlimited searches, analyses and reports, explicitly in place of per-seat licences, usage tiers and credit packs. MCP access, the mobile apps, the REST API, onboarding, training and support are all stated to be included in that fee. The rate itself is set case by case: the pricing section says the rate is tailored to the team, and the FAQ states that pricing scales with team size and volume and that a tailored proposal follows a conversation. The contractual period is described as typically annual and subject to renewal. Because no figure of any kind is disclosed, no starting price, currency or billing unit can be reported.
- unlimited users across the firm
- unlimited searches
- analyses and reports
- no credits
- MCP
- mobile and API included
- onboarding
- training and support included
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Quido handles your data.
GDPR overview
GDPR compliance is claimed explicitly: the FAQ answers that data sits on EU infrastructure, encrypted at rest and in transit, and is GDPR compliant. The app privacy policy goes further than most, tabulating a legal basis per purpose: contract for authentication and core features, consent for voice dictation, legitimate interest for crash diagnostics and legal obligation where required. Users are told they may access, rectify, erase, restrict, object, port their data, withdraw consent, and complain to the Italian Garante per la protezione dei dati personali; requests go to francesco@quido.ai. Transfers outside the EEA are covered by standard contractual clauses, with the Auth0 tenant kept inside the EU and OpenAI named as a US transfer. No Article 27 representative is designated, which is consistent with an EU-established controller. No data processing agreement is published or offered.
Who owns the data?
Quido S.r.l., of Via Giovanni Marradi 1 in Milan, is the data controller. Accounts are provisioned by Quido on behalf of the client firm rather than opened by individuals, so the client organisation controls who reaches what, and it may itself act as controller or joint controller for its own users' records. Everything a user creates in the product, including searches, saved lists, deals, notes, uploaded documents and messages to the AI agent, is held server-side for the duration of the contract. When the contract ends the organisation's access is withdrawn and the associated data is deleted or anonymised. The vendor states that it neither sells personal data nor shares it for marketing.
Reuse rights
The site publishes no terms and conditions, so no contractual clause on reuse of the output could be examined; the only binding documents available are the two privacy policies. What they do establish is narrower but unambiguous. Client material is processed to run the service under the performance of a contract, and it never feeds model training, a commitment the vendor repeats on the homepage FAQ, in the funding announcement and in the MCP documentation. Messages sent to the AI agent pass to OpenAI as a processor, and data sent through that API is not used by OpenAI to train its models either. Because Quido builds on public registry sources and keeps every figure linked back to its origin, the material a user produces is designed to be carried into their own memos and committee documents. The absence of published terms nonetheless leaves ownership of generated reports formally undefined.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Quido states repeatedly that its infrastructure is European: the FAQ answers 'EU infrastructure', the funding announcement says the systems sit in Europe and refers to a European cloud. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit, transport runs over HTTPS and TLS, and mobile tokens are held in the operating system's secure store rather than in clear text. No specific country and no hosting provider is named, so the claim cannot be narrowed beyond the region. Among the named processors, the Auth0 identity tenant is stated to be inside the European Union, while Sentry and Expo may transfer outside the EU with appropriate safeguards and OpenAI is an explicit transfer to the United States under standard contractual clauses. One distinction matters when reading the policies: the marketing site passes through Cloudflare with processing in the United States, and Google Fonts appears there too, but both belong to the public website rather than to the platform that holds client data.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Quido.
- Sourced output still needs judgement: reclassified accounts and peer sets are inputs to a thesis, not a verdict, and the vendor says so explicitly
- Speed can erode scrutiny; when a one-pager arrives in seconds, the habit of checking the underlying filing is the first thing to go
- No price, no terms and conditions and no DPA are published, so the commercial and legal commitments cannot be assessed before entering a sales conversation
- Deal material is confidential by nature, yet agent messages are processed by OpenAI in the United States under standard contractual clauses
- The legal company name appears in two spellings across the site, and the LinkedIn page it advertises could not be confirmed at review
- The name Quido is heavily homonymous: several unrelated live companies share it in the Czech Republic, Finland and Mexico, so verify you are dealing with the Milan entity
- Figures shown in the product screenshots are demonstration data, not client references or real financials
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Low for the customer, because almost nothing is installed. Quido runs as a web application with companion iOS and Android apps, and accounts are provisioned by the vendor rather than created by users. Sign-in goes through Auth0, with entitlement checked at organisation level. Teams are said to be live within a week, and onboarding, training and support are included in the fee. Connecting the MCP server to Claude or ChatGPT is presented as requiring no bespoke development, since it relies on a standard. The only element calling for engineering effort is the REST API, if a firm chooses to build custom integrations on it.
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Behind Quido
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Quido's data come from?
How much does Quido cost?
Is there a free trial or a free plan?
Is client data used to train AI models?
Where is the data hosted?
Can Quido be used from Claude or ChatGPT?
Does Quido integrate with the tools a firm already uses?
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Is there a minimum age to use Quido?
Should you pick Quido?
Quido is an unusually well-scoped product. It does not claim to be a general assistant that happens to know finance; it is a research and reporting layer over Italian private company data, sold to private equity, M&A, investment banking and advisory teams, and it says out loud where it stops. Automating collection and normalisation while leaving interpretation to the professional is a defensible line, and keeping every figure attached to its source is the detail that makes the output usable in a committee paper rather than something to re-verify by hand. The commercial posture is equally deliberate. A flat annual fee with unlimited seats, no credits and everything bundled removes the friction that stops teams from searching, and the vendor argues that case explicitly. The security position is stated in plain terms too: European infrastructure, encryption at rest and in transit, six named processors, and an unconditional promise that client material never trains a model. What a buyer should weigh is what is not published. There is no price of any kind, no terms and conditions, no data processing agreement and no security certification, and there is no way to see the product without a sales conversation. For a tool handling confidential deal material, procurement teams will notice all four. Coverage is also Italian: nothing on the site documents another market, despite an English site addressing European institutions. The company itself is young, registered in 2024, twelve people in Milan, EUR 1.6 million raised in February 2026 with Vertis and Cdp Venture Capital among the backers, and roughly forty client teams claimed. That is a credible early trajectory rather than an established vendor, and it should be read as such.
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