Eight acquisitions in. Still no single source of truth.
70%
of mergers fail to achieve revenue synergies
Every add-on multiplies the integration burden. We make the fiftieth faster than the first.
Every acquisition adds systems. None of them talk.
At fifty integrations, your team is consumed. At two hundred, your budget is.
Every acquisition multiplies the mess. Unless it doesn’t.
Acquisition fifty doesn’t touch one through forty-nine.
Three things get faster. Every acquisition.
Weeks, not months.
2–3 weeks per acquisition.
A handful, not a department.
3–5 people instead of 15–25.
Maintenance stays flat.
<1 hr/week at 200+ sources. Conventional: 5–10 dedicated engineers.
What faster integration does to your fund math.
~70 bps
Per month of integration compressed — the difference between “met plan” and “exceeded plan.”
$2.5–5M
Maintenance you won’t pay over a six-year hold. Flat curve vs. compounding cost.
+1.0x
The spread between holdco discount and integrated platform premium. Buyers pay more for clean data.
This isn’t a back-office problem.
Every month without integrated reporting, your operating partners are flying blind. Revenue leaks. Duplicate vendors survive. Cross-sell opportunities die in spreadsheets no one reconciles.
One more thing
A platform that spends $5 million on integration over a six-year hold…
…could have spent $600K and added $20M at exit.
That’s a 33-to-1 return on integration spend.
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