The company — and the founder — behind the CARMA™ System.
DealDoctor® is Peter Neda — attorney, Certified Internal Auditor, former General Counsel, and board advisor. Across 25+ years, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley, he advised on and closed more than 1,000 transactions valued at over $50B — and kept returning to the same concern: what an organization signs is not always what it does. Everything DealDoctor® builds exists to close that gap.
A thousand closed deals kept exposing the same problem.
DealDoctor®, CARMA™, and CARMAI™ are the culmination of over 25 years of multi-industry, multi-disciplinary work in law, business, compliance, and systems and internal auditing — a multi-award-winning record of service to top law firms, public and private companies, and global organizations, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley, from non-profits to multinational corporations, across more than 1,000 transactions valued at over $50B.
That experience revealed a fundamental problem no existing technology addressed: the Legality vs. Reality Gap™ — the distance between what businesses agree to do and what they actually do in practice. In contracts, it is the missed deadline buried in clause 14.3, the insurance requirement nobody verified, the indemnification cap finance never modeled. And the gap does not stop at the contract. It runs through every layer of the organization: governance charters that define committee responsibilities nobody follows, compliance policies that sit in binders while actual practice drifts, risk frameworks adopted on paper but never operationalized, Delegation of Authority matrices that exist in theory while approvals happen over email, culture statements posted on walls while behavior on the ground tells a different story.
Every organization has a Legality vs. Reality Gap™. Most do not measure it. None had a system to close it — until now.
CARMA™ was built to be that system: not a checklist or an audit template, but a one-of-a-kind business transformation system that prevents, directs, detects, and corrects — continuously, across the whole business.
Peter Neda — attorney, auditor, operator.
Peter Neda is The DealDoctor® — creator of the CARMA™ Framework (Compliance. Auditing. Risk. Management. Alignment.). His career spans BigLaw capital markets practice, Fortune 10 companies, PE-backed businesses, pre-IPO startups, and private organizations across industries — as capital markets attorney, in-house counsel, General Counsel, Chief Audit Executive, deal structuring manager, compliance officer, enterprise auditor, and board advisor. Few people have negotiated the deal, governed the company, and then audited what actually happened. The framework exists because he kept doing all three.
That vantage point runs from the boardroom to the operating floor — from entity formation through capital markets transactions, from board-level oversight through operational contract management. His mission is the company’s mission: equip businesses and legal teams with the culture, mindset, tools, and frameworks they need to shift from reactive firefighting to proactive, provable performance.
One system. Four ways in.
Everything DealDoctor® ships is the same methodology at a different altitude — the framework, the education, the technology, and the advisory, built by the same team, from the same real-world experience, as one integrated system.
The CARMA™ System
A one-of-a-kind business transformation system — Compliance, Auditing, Risk, Management, Alignment. It does four things at once, continuously, across the whole business: it prevents failures from forming, directs the organization on purpose, detects what matters the moment it matters, and corrects at the root. The AAA Standard™ (Awareness → Alignment → Assurance), the Quad C Mindset, the 5Cs™ contract lifecycle, and Integris™ scoring are its working parts.
Explore the CARMA™ System →CARMAI™
The world’s first Governance & Legal Management (GLM) platform — the AI engine that implements CARMA™, inside Microsoft Word and a WebUI governance dashboard. Today’s tools are either CLM platforms that stop at the contract or GRC platforms that never touch the actual language in agreements; CARMAI™ is the first to bridge both. Playbooks with Ideality, Legality, and Actual positions show how negotiated terms compare to what you wanted, what you signed, and what is actually happening — with Integris™ obligation scoring, three-tier Delegation of Authority, and CARMAlly™, an AI assistant trained on the CARMA™ manuals themselves. Privacy-first by architecture: contracts are anonymized before AI processing, and your data stays yours.
Get CARMAI™ →The Professional Manuals
The methodology in print, written for operators: the CARMA™ Framework Manual and the Implementation Guide with Self-Audit Package, plus dedicated manuals on board governance, the General Counsel function, culture, due diligence, negotiation, and career navigation. The manuals are the education layer of the system — and the methodology CARMAlly™ itself is trained on.
Get the Manuals →Advisory & Implementation
DealDoctor® works directly with organizations implementing the CARMA™ System — contract auditing and performance reviews, legal management consulting, negotiation support, legal ops setup, and training. Self-directed, assisted, or ongoing advisory: the framework is the same; the level of help is yours to choose.
See Services →Every competitor ships a tool. We ship a platform with a system behind it.
Technology without a methodology is speed without direction. The framework is the blueprint. The manuals are the education. The platform is the engine. And the Legality vs. Reality Gap™ is not a technology problem — it is an organizational problem. CARMAI™ is the first platform built to help solve it.
Close the gap between signed and done.
Start with the platform, start with the manuals, or start with a conversation — every path leads into the same system.