Are You Acquisition Ready?
The ten-minute diagnostic that reveals your blind spots before your next deal closes
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Most buyers walk into the first 100 days blind
You've done the financial due diligence. You've done the legal due diligence. You've built a solid integration plan.
But there's a third leg of the stool that most buyers never build: human due diligence. The invisible dynamics that determine whether the people inside your acquisition will help you succeed or quietly ensure you fail.
The problem isn't that buyers don't care about people. It's that they don't know what to look for, when to look for it, or how to read what they find.
By the time the warning signs become visible, the damage is already done.
The gap between insight and implementation is where value gets destroyed.
Five dimensions that predict post-acquisition success
The Acquisition Readiness Diagnostic evaluates where you stand across five critical dimensions. Each one represents a potential blind spot that can derail even the most carefully planned deal.
Human Dynamics Visibility
How clearly can you see what's actually happening inside the organisation you're acquiring? Not the org chart. The informal power structures, the unspoken loyalties, the relationships that don't transfer with the shares.
Day One Readiness
Are you prepared for what happens the moment control transfers? Fire alarms are already ringing in people's heads. The questions they're asking themselves will shape everything that follows.
Communication Calibration
Is your communication approach helping or hurting? Most buyers broadcast on the wrong frequency. Reassurance often makes things worse. Silence creates stories you never intended.
Pressure Transmission Patterns
How does pressure flow through your system? Investor expectations become leadership behaviour become staff experience. If the boiler is overheating, no thermostat can save the building.
Control vs Regulation Orientation
Are you oriented toward controlling the business or regulating the system? The buyers who survive the first 100 days aren't the ones who control the most. They're the ones who learn to regulate.
Ten minutes. Five dimensions. One clear picture.
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Your specific vulnerabilities
Not generic risks. The particular blind spots that your background, experience, and defaults create. The patterns you'll fall into under pressure without realising it.
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Where to focus your attention
You can't fix everything at once. The diagnostic shows you which dimensions need immediate attention and which can wait. Priority, not overwhelm.
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Your readiness score across each dimension
A clear picture of where you stand. Not pass or fail. A nuanced view of your strengths and the areas where you're most exposed.
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Whether you're walking in prepared or exposed
The honest answer to a question most buyers never ask until it's too late. Are you ready for what the first 100 days will demand?
The first 100 days aren't just important. They're irreversible.
Early signals become permanent truths. First impressions harden into beliefs. The cement is wet, and everything you do leaves a mark you won't be able to smooth over later.
By month four, you're not shaping culture. You're living with the culture you've already created, whether you meant to create it or not.
The cost of getting this wrong doesn't show up as a line item. It shows up in the key person who quietly starts looking elsewhere. In the institutional knowledge that walks out the door. In the discretionary effort that never returns. In the gap between what you paid for and what you actually get.
These aren't soft costs. They show up in EBITDA. They just show up later, disguised as operational problems, market conditions, cultural misalignment.
The diagnostic takes ten minutes. The patterns it reveals take months to fix once they've set. That's not a fair trade-off to skip.
Built for buyers who take human risk seriously
PE Professionals
Protecting portfolio company value through leadership transitions
First-Time Acquirers
Avoiding the mistakes that experienced buyers keep making
Serial Acquirers
Refining your approach based on patterns you might be missing
The diagnostic is based on the research and frameworks from Surviving the First 100 Days of Buying a Business by Simon Gower.
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