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Transition Diagnostic & Day 1 Readiness

You are planning an acquisition or transition,  closing in the next 30 to 90 days. You want a clear picture of transition risk before you commit to full execution.

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Full Transition Execution

You are closing a deal or have recently closed. You need someone to own the execution and governance structure to keep it on track.

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Stabilization Retainer

You have completed the transition execution plan. You want light-touch oversight during the handoff, so integration stays locked in.

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Full Transition Execution Engagement

Overview

The Full Transition Execution Engagement is where integration actually happens. DBC serves your Integration Management Office (IMO) for 90 days. We own workstream execution, accountability, and stakeholder coordination across people, process, and systems.
 
You retain all decision authority. We run the execution.

The Problem

The most dangerous moment in any transition is Day 31 through 90. The deal is closed, everyone has moved on, but the acquired company is being absorbed into your operations, and nobody has bandwidth to run that process while keeping the business operating.

For PE operating partners, this is the moment when portfolio companies either stabilize or stall. For portfolio company executives, this is the moment integration and the day job start competing for the same hours.

The execution engagement owns and resolves:
People Execution: Onboarding, role transitions, reporting line changes, and the communication cadence that keeps the combined team aligned and retained through the transition.
Process Integration: Standing up unified and documented procedures across order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, and record-to-report. We merge the processes into one operating procedure per function.
Systems Cutover: Managing the sequencing, data migration, and go-live of system consolidations so operations don’t stall mid-transition.
Stakeholder Coordination: Running the cross-functional cadence between buyer leadership, acquired company leadership, and any third parties (lenders, advisors, key customers) who need visibility.
Governance in Motion: Operating the decision rights and escalation paths defined pre-close, so issues get resolved in days, not weeks.
Course Correction: Identifying when a workstream is off track early enough to fix it before it affects the Day 90 outcome.
IMO Standup: Establish governance cadence, reporting structure, and workstream ownership in the first two weeks.
Workstream Execution: Drive the people, process, and systems workstreams identified in the readiness assessment.
Weekly Steering: Run structured leadership check-ins to maintain visibility, surface risk, and keep decisions moving.
Day 90 Handoff: Transition ownership of stabilized workstreams back to your team with documentation and a clear operating model.
IMO Governance Charter: Decision rights, escalation paths, and reporting cadence for the engagement.
Workstream Trackers: Live status across people, process, and systems initiatives with named owners.
Weekly Executive Steering Reports: Leadership-level visibility without leadership-level time commitment.
Day 90 Transition Package: Documented operating model, outstanding items, and recommended next steps.
The engagement runs in three phases from kickoff to handoff.
Phase 1: Stand-up – Governance cadence established, workstream owners confirmed, and priorities locked against the readiness plan.
Phase 2: Execute – Active work across people, process, and systems, with weekly steering to track progress and resolve issues as they surface.
Phase 3: Stabilize and Hand Off – Course correction on any lagging workstreams, systems cutover completed, and a documented transition package delivered to your team.
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Fixed-Fee. Scoped to Your Deal.

Fixed-fee engagements sized for the lower middle market. We scope every engagement to your deal before we price it.

Stabilization Retainer

Overview

An optional add-on following the Full Transition Execution Engagement. Light-touch oversight during the months after a handoff, so the structure you built holds as it becomes the new normal.

Monthly check-ins to monitor the workstreams established during the execution
Availability for decisions that surface only after the team is fully running the new operating model on its own
A direct line back to the team that already knows the business
Month-to-month, typically running three months following the Execution Engagement.