POST-MERGER INTEGRATION
Capture Value Beyond the Deal.
Realize synergies faster through structured integration management, governance, operating model alignment, and comprehensive execution support. Our custom Claude AI agents baseline both organisations in days, and senior consultants turn that into an integration plan management can actually run. Small and mid-cap companies in Germany, DACH, Europe and internationally.
Qualified requests receive a first proposal within 24 hours.
72h
to first insights: AI assessment agents baseline both organisations across systems, customers, contracts and cost base
1 week
to a first integration blueprint and Day 1 scope, ready for the steering committee
180
day integration roadmap with named owners and dates, from Day 30 through Day 90 to Day 180
50%
lower cost than traditional consulting firms through AI-first delivery
AI-driven integration approach
AI assessment agents. Senior integration judgement.
What we offer
Integration strategy and synergy case
Integration ambition, target operating model and the synergy baseline rebuilt bottom up. Top line and bottom line, quantified, owned and dated before Day 1.
Integration Management Office
Governance, workstreams, decision rights and reporting. One plan, named owners and a weekly rhythm that keeps the integration moving when the deal team has moved on.
Day 1 readiness and the value ledger
What has to work on Day 1, what follows in the first 100 days, and a synergy value ledger that tracks every initiative until it shows up in the P&L.
Week 2 to 4
Integration plan and judgement. Deal-tested consultants turn the baseline into an integration blueprint, a synergy value ledger and a Day 30, 90 and 180 roadmap the organisation can run.
72 hours
First insights. You receive the integration baseline, the first synergy hypotheses and the critical path to a Day 1 that does not disrupt the business.
Day 1
AI baseline scan. Our custom Claude assessment agents read both organisations: systems, contracts, customers, organisational and cost data, and map overlap, gaps and integration risk.
How we work
AI first, then human judgement
Our custom Claude agents baseline both organisations in days, not weeks, and they read every document the same way every time. Senior consultants then make the calls that carry the risk. That is why we are faster than a traditional firm, and why the answer is sharper.
LESSONS FROM COMPLEX INTEGRATIONS
What actually unlocks synergies
01
Unlock the true synergies, not the announced ones. The deal case is a hypothesis. Rebuild the synergy baseline bottom up with the people who have to deliver it, and drop whatever does not survive contact with reality.
02
A clear roadmap beats a perfect plan. One integration plan, named owners, and dates for Day 30, 90 and 180. Everything beyond that is reporting, not progress.
03
Culture decides whether the plan survives. Two companies with different decision rights and different speeds do not integrate because an org chart says so. Understand both cultures early and design the operating model around what people will actually do.
04
Speed is a value lever in itself. Every month of uncertainty costs customers, talent and momentum. Decide early, communicate clearly, and take the eighty percent answer when the last twenty percent costs a quarter.
05
Track top line and bottom line separately. Cost synergies are easier to plan and easier to prove. Revenue synergies take longer, need joint ownership between the sales organisations, and fail quietly when nobody is accountable for them.
“Most integrations report activity, not value. The ones that work are honest about culture, move fast where speed matters, and track every synergy to the P&L until it is real.”
DAVID WANG, FOUNDER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR
Case studies
Situation
A private equity backed platform was acquiring several IT cloud and data centre service providers. Every add-on arrived with its own systems, teams and customers, and each integration started from scratch.
What we did
Set up the integration strategy and governance, and wrote the PMI playbook with a Day 30, 90 and 180 roadmap that the platform could reuse.
Result
Faster transparency on every integration and a repeatable blueprint now applied to each new acquisition.
Anonymised engagement · Private equity platform, IT services
Integration platform for a private equity backed IT group
Situation
Two entities of a semiconductor group were merging upstream. Legal, finance, operations, HR and the executive team all had a stake, and none of them had the same plan.
What we did
Led the end-to-end project management office, aligned the cross-functional teams and defined the merger strategy together with the CxO leadership.
Result
One plan across all functions and a smooth transition through post-merger integration.
Anonymised engagement · Semiconductor group, upstream merger
Upstream merger in the semiconductor industry
Situation
A mid-cap private equity group needed integration capacity across several portfolio entities at once, and wanted automation built in rather than bolted on afterwards.
What we did
Set up the PMI office and led the AI transformation across the entities, including a carve-out business case and value creation simulations.
Result
Integration, automation and operational efficiency delivered as one programme instead of three.
Anonymised engagement · Mid-cap private equity group
Integration office and AI transformation for a mid-cap portfolio
Just signed, or integrating the next add-on?
Whether closing is weeks away or an integration has already stalled, the first conversation is about what decides your value case: which synergies are real, what has to work on Day 1, and how fast the two organisations can actually move. Qualified requests receive a first proposal within 24 hours.