Know how the target is really built, before you commit.
Pre-LOI human capital due diligence. When people and integration decide whether a deal works, the target's operating structure is what you most need to see. It normally only surfaces during DD, after you are committed. We reconstruct it beforehand, from public signals alone, and tailor the read to your deal. In prior enterprise work this kind of early read has contributed to meaningful LOI price corrections.
failed deals miss on the people and operating-model layer, the layer that normally stays hidden until DD. We surface it pre-LOI.
McKinsey, ten-year M&A executive surveyThe questions that decide the deal.
Talent risk & retention exposure
Who carries the value, where they sit, and where losing them would break the thesis. The retention risk you cannot see from the data room.
Integration seams & synergies
Where two organizations will be hardest to combine, and where the real synergy sits, including redundancy mapping against your own org.
Acqui-hire targeting
Who you are really buying. The teams and individuals worth the deal, and the ones you must keep for it to pay off.
Deal economics
An inferred read of the people cost base, sized from salary data, so you can frame the economics before you sign.
What a target read looks like.
Excerpt from a reconstruction of a supplier's dedicated program for one customer. We mapped the whole operating organization across five sites, the cost base, and the talent risk, the read an acquirer needs pre-LOI. Names and figures are anonymized.
Note the cost base for synergy modelling, and the open and recently-vacated roles in the field team, exactly the retention risk an acquirer needs to price.
From a name to a decision-ready read.
A fixed-scope engagement priced to the size of the target. Detailed pricing is in our M&A brochure and available on request.
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Name a target. Get a pre-LOI read in as little as two weeks.
Tell us the target and the deal you are weighing. We return the operating picture, an executive summary, and a walkthrough with Q&A.
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