Day One · 12 Weeks

Hit Day One on schedule.

90 days. Six workstreams. One operational stand-up. The Day One Readiness Program is the buyer-side counterweight to the seller's separation office. IT, finance, HR, procurement, treasury, cybersecurity. All on the same calendar.

When You Need This

Day One is the moment.

Day One is not a milestone. It is the operational stand-up of a new company. Email works or it does not. Payroll runs or it does not. Customers get invoiced or they do not. The seller's separation team has a different definition of ready. This program writes the buyer's.

  1. i.

    Close is 60 to 120 days out.

    Long enough to do real work. Tight enough that the work has to start now. The Day One window is absolute.

  2. ii.

    The carve-out spans multiple business units.

    Shared IT, shared HR systems, shared procurement. Day One requires real separation across all of them.

  3. iii.

    The portfolio company has no internal PMO.

    A newly carved-out entity does not yet have an integration office. The buyer's portfolio team is doing six other things.

  4. iv.

    The seller's separation office is the only PMO.

    Their interests are not the buyer's interests. The buyer needs a parallel program working the same calendar from the other side.

  5. v.

    You missed the pre-signing review.

    The TSA is signed. The catalog is what it is. The Day One program turns the TSA you have into the operational outcome you need.

Documentary view of a Day One operational war room
What We Deliver

Six workstreams. One Day One.

Every workstream gets a readiness owner, a milestone plan, and a measured cutover. The program operates on a weekly cadence with the seller's separation lead. Decisions land. Risks escalate. The calendar holds.

Workstream 01

IT and infrastructure

Identity, email, network, endpoint, ERP, data center, cloud. Cutover sequencing, dependency map, fallback plan.

Workstream 02

Finance and accounting

Close calendar, GL stand-up, AP and AR cutover, reporting continuity, audit handoff, treasury operations.

Workstream 03

HR and payroll

Employee transfer, benefits stand-up, payroll cutover, leave balances, compensation continuity, day-one communications.

Workstream 04

Procurement and vendor

Vendor assignment, contract novation, procurement system stand-up, P-card cutover, supplier comms.

Workstream 05

Treasury and cash

Bank accounts, lockbox, intercompany flows, working capital stand-up, FX, day-one liquidity verification.

Workstream 06

Cybersecurity and risk

Identity separation, SOC handoff, vulnerability baseline, incident response, audit and compliance handover.

Outcomes

What buyers have achieved with this engagement.

Anonymized results from prior engagements. Full case studies available on request under NDA.

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Days Slipped

Healthcare carve-out Day One on schedule

$750K monthly TSA run rate. 6 workstreams. Day One hit on the close date with no extension fees and no operational outage.

94%
Workstream Readiness

Industrial carve-out cutover

Six workstreams. 94 percent at green at Day One. Two amber items agreed in advance for week two remediation. No red items.

$1.8M
Avoided Day-One Stranded Costs

Tech carve-out stranded cost elimination

Identified and eliminated $1.8M of annual stranded SaaS and infrastructure costs before Day One via vendor novation and consolidation.

Day One

It runs or it does not.

Fixed-fee proposal in 48 hours. Senior team on day one. The first conversation is always free.