Integration Playbook

Integration Playbook

Most post-merger integration plans were built for institutional acquisitions, not founder-led businesses. Here's the framework that actually accounts for where the value lives.

Integration Playbook

Most lower middle market PE firms close on founder-led businesses without a dedicated operating partner — then wonder why value erodes before the first board meeting. The gap is predictable, measurable, and solvable if you stop pretending the founder can run integration and the business simultaneously.