Buying it was the easy part.Making it deliver is the work.
Post-close implementation for acquirers across North Texas. The first 100 days decide whether the deal pays off. We step in to stabilize the team, transfer the seller’s knowledge, and capture the value you underwrote, so the business you bought performs to thesis.
Will it still run once the seller is gone?
A business you can buy isn’t the same as a business you can run. The value you underwrote lived in the seller’s head, their relationships, and habits no one wrote down. The day they leave, that’s the business you actually own.
That may be the most important question, but it’s not the only one. Here are three others that decide whether the deal pays off:
- Where does the value leak in the first 100 days?
- What walks out the door when the seller does?
- How fast can it run without the prior owner?
If those aren’t handled early, the thesis slips quarter by quarter and the return you modeled erodes. Our job is to lock them down in the first 100 days, while the trail is still warm.
If this sounds familiar, it might be time to make the business you bought truly yours.
The clock starts the day you close
Value leaks before you see it
Key people get nervous, customers test the new owner, and the seller’s undocumented knowledge starts walking out the door. The erosion is quiet, and by the time it shows up in the numbers it’s expensive to reverse.
Momentum only comes around once
Right after close you have a mandate to change things that you’ll never have again. Move fast and the team follows. Wait six months and every fix becomes a fight against “how we’ve always done it.”
The levers that turn an acquisition into a return
An acquisition doesn’t create value on its own. Execution does. These are the levers we run from inside the business in the first 100 days and beyond, so the thesis you underwrote actually shows up in the cash flow. Each one either protects the value you bought or captures the upside you paid for.
Why bring in an operator, not another advisor?
Your deal team got you to close. We take it from there. We’re not a banker, a private-equity associate, or a consultant with a deck. Whether you’re a search-fund operator, an independent sponsor, or a platform adding on, we run the first 100 days from inside the business, so the value you paid for actually shows up.
Bankers, lenders, attorneys, and diligence advisors source it, price it, and close it. That’s their job, and it ends at signing. We never run the deal.
We run the 100-day plan from inside the business: stabilizing the team, transferring the seller’s knowledge, standing up reporting, and hitting the quick wins. We build the operating story that makes the acquisition deliver the thesis you underwrote.
Your 100-day plan
The plan is scoped to your deal, not to a template. We start by diagnosing what the business really runs on, then move through clearly defined phases, each ending at a checkpoint so you and your investors always know what’s changed and what it’s worth. Nothing here is busywork: every phase is chosen because it protects the value you bought or captures the upside you paid for.
Map what the business really runs on, who and what you can’t afford to lose, and where value is most at risk. This is the Post-Close Diagnostic.
Lock in key people, reassure customers, and keep delivery steady so nothing breaks while ownership changes hands and the seller steps back.
Get reporting, cadence, and the seller’s knowledge transferred so you can see and steer the business without the prior owner in the room.
Hit the quick wins on margin, pricing, and process that fund the integration and turn the thesis you underwrote into cash flow you can see.
Install the operating system and manager layer so the platform runs without heroics and compounds from the base you bought.
Speed is the whole point. The value you underwrote is most capturable in the weeks right after close, while the team is expecting change and the seller is still reachable. Every month you wait, knowledge fades, key people drift, and the easy wins get harder to reach.
It asks two things of you: a clear mandate, with an introduction to the team as someone with the authority to act, and the prior owner available through the transition. With that in place, the first 100 days do most of the work.
Stop the bleed. The team is locked, delivery is steady, and nothing of value is walking out the door.
Visibility and quick wins. You can see the business clearly, and it’s funding its own integration.
A platform that runs without the prior owner and scales from here, on your operating system.
The Post-Close Diagnostic
In two weeks, you’ll know what’s keeping the business you bought from delivering its thesis, who and what you can’t afford to lose, and the exact 100-day sequence to capture the value before it leaks.
- What the business really runs on, and what walks out with the seller
- The value leaks in the first 100 days, and what each costs the thesis
- A prioritized 100-day value-capture plan, sequenced by impact
- A 90-minute working session to walk it with your team
We dig into the operations, the team, and the seller’s role, then map where the thesis is most exposed in the months right after close.
We sit down for the working session, walk the findings line by line, and leave with a prioritized 100-day plan you own outright.
We take a limited number of engagements at a time, and spots fill fast.
Our Standard. You’ll leave with a clearer, more useful read on what your first 100 days need than you have today. If it misses, we’ll sharpen our pencils until it lands. If it still doesn’t, you don’t pay.
Is this the right fit for your deal?
The honest answer isn’t always yes, and we’d rather tell you that up front than bill you for work your deal doesn’t need. Here’s where this makes sense, and where it doesn’t.
- You want the thesis captured, not just watched
- You need operations handled, not advice
- The business runs on the prior owner
- The seller is leaving or stepping back
- You’ve closed, or you’re about to
- You already have a strong operator in the seat
- You’re looking for buy-side or brokerage help
- The seller is staying, long-term and engaged
- You need someone to run the deal itself
- It’s a passive, hands-off hold
Not sure where your deal lands?
That’s exactly what the diagnostic settles: two weeks to a clear read on what your first 100 days need.
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