A platform acquiring at speed hits the same wall every time. Each deal arrives on a different stack, the board wants KPIs within two weeks of close, and there’s no one inside whose job is to make the numbers tie out.
A PE platform acquiring at speed hits it every time — and it compounds with each close.
New companies land on Excel, QuickBooks, legacy ERPs, an offshore-built field system. Each integration starts from scratch with no repeatable pattern.
Sponsors expect consolidated reporting within days of each close. Today it takes weeks of manual assembly — and the numbers still don’t agree.
BI is held together with tribal knowledge and duct tape. The person doing it by hand can’t scale with the acquisition cadence.
A full data team is a $1M+/yr commitment that’s hard to justify yet. Generic consultancies quote six-figure projects with quarter-long lead times.
We sit in the chair as your interim data team, stand up one warehouse every entity flows into, and turn each new deal from a project into a 1–2 day onboarding — then hand the wheel back to a lighter retainer as your team takes over.
Audit every entity, design the architecture, connect all current systems, and model normalized KPIs. Executive and board reporting goes live — and the M&A onboarding playbook gets documented.
Each new acquisition is connected with the playbook — most live in 1–2 days. Ongoing data engineering, quality monitoring, and tuning at a fraction of a full team's cost.
Board-pack automation, cross-entity benchmarking, anomaly alerts, and natural-language querying — built on a base that's finally trustworthy, not bolted onto a partial view.
In practice A repeatable onboarding playbook turns each new acquisition from a months-long project into a 1–2 day connect.
See where your platform sits today, or talk through the next acquisition.