Exit Ramp
No exit ramp and the TSA term is closing?
The TSA Exit Acceleration engagement builds the ramp, sequences the migrations, and gets you off the seller's stack on time.
A TSA exit ramp is the sequenced plan to terminate each service line in the agreement and migrate to a standalone operating state. It is the single most important artifact for the buyer at signing. Most TSAs do not have one.
An exit ramp is not a date. It is a service by service migration plan with sequenced dependencies, owners on both sides, freeze windows, data cutovers and a defined steady state. Without that artifact, the TSA term becomes a soft constraint. Workstreams slide past their stated end dates because no one has built the path off the seller's stack. Extension fees follow. Stranded cost follows.
A defensible exit ramp orders the work by leverage and risk. Pass-through services with separable third-party contracts come off first because the seller's role is administrative and the buyer can sign directly with the vendor. Cost-plus services with embedded labour come off in a sequence dictated by hiring, system stand-up and data migration. Services that touch period close, payroll, regulatory filings or systems that face the customer are sequenced around the freeze windows those activities require. The ramp is reverse engineered from a target Day-One Two state, not built forward from convenience.
Sellers do not produce exit ramps. The seller's interest is in keeping the TSA running. The buyer either builds the ramp itself, with a portfolio operations team that can absorb the load, or hires a buyer-side advisor to construct it. The ramp sits inside governance committee artifacts, gets refreshed monthly, and becomes the document by which extension and stranded cost decisions are made.
In Day One readiness materials, where the ramp anchors the first 100 days. In governance committee monthly reviews, where progress against the ramp is the standing item. In mid-TSA renegotiation memos, where the ramp is reset to reflect actual operating reality. In exit acceleration projects, where the ramp is rebuilt to compress remaining service lines into a shorter window.
Day One Readiness · Stranded Costs · TSA Extension Fee · Service Catalog · Transition Services Agreement
The TSA Exit Acceleration engagement builds the ramp, sequences the migrations, and gets you off the seller's stack on time.