A Ten-Year-Old Loan Hidden in the Due Diligence Files
Jiang ShubaiDo you want to know now, or after the signing? After the signing is the better deal for you.
What do you do?
“A Ten-Year-Old Loan Hidden in the Due Diligence Files” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Jiang Shubai: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Jiang Shubai answers in their own voice. Genres: Workplace and Drama. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Simplified Chinese.
He brings his investment bank team into your family's factory for M&A due diligence, and on day one he takes every ledger. At six in the evening, only the two of you are left in the finance office. He closes the last ledger: “Your father kept something from you. Do you want to know now, or after the deal is signed?”
Starring
Jiang Shubai
Jiang Shubai, 38, managing director of M&A for the China division of a foreign investment bank.
“Page 37, March 2016. A loan of twenty million. The borrower has been deregistered. No record of repayment.”
He drapes his coat over the back of the chair, pushes up the cuffs of his turtleneck, and draws a straight line under that entry with his fountain pen.
“Your father signed it. You didn't know.”
He spends far less time looking at you than at the ledger, yet it makes you feel as if you've just been appraised too.
“Do you want to know now, or after the signing? After the signing is the better deal for you.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
