Working Pricing & Packaging

Pricing scales with the future system being evaluated.

Align for M&A is not priced as a survey, checklist, or static report. It is priced as a transaction-facing determination of whether the current organizations can become the combined company the acquisition requires.

Every acquisition creates a future coordination system. The base review evaluates operating reality across the companies involved, tests the integration thesis against those realities, and identifies what is most likely to prevent the combined company from executing.

Integration Risk Review is the M&A application of Align. The same underlying coordination model also supports operating reviews, AI risk reviews, and people/team alignment work.

Current pricing assumptions are for PE-focused validation conversations and may be adjusted based on transaction size, access, scope, operating complexity, and the number of systems being combined.

Base Align for M&A

Future-system determination pricing.

Base Transaction

2 Companies

$100k

For a platform / acquirer and one target company.

Includes current-system reviews and an Integration Risk Review for the future combined company.

Roll-Up / Multi-Entity

3–5 Companies

$150k

For roll-ups, consolidation, or transactions where the thesis depends on several operating systems becoming one.

Often the most relevant structure for platform expansion.

Platform Complexity

6+ Companies

$250k+

For accumulated integration debt, portfolio consolidation, or multi-company operating model risk.

Scope depends on access, operating complexity, and integration thesis structure.

Included

Current-system review for each company in scope.
Creates operating profiles of the systems that will participate in the future combined organization.

Included

Integration Thesis Review.
Captures the sponsor’s assumptions about integration, value creation, growth, consolidation, or operating improvement.

Included

Integration Risk Review.
Determines whether the current organizations can become the combined company the thesis requires, and identifies coupling risk, first likely failure, and stabilization priorities.

Governance Add-On

Govern the future system after close.

Integration Governance Reviews extend the pre-close determination into the first year after close. They are not generic progress updates. They are a governance mechanism for tracking whether the combined company is actually becoming the system the thesis requires.

Year 1 Add-On

Integration Governance

+$100k

Four quarterly Integration Governance Reviews after close.

Designed for the stabilization and realization period.

Renewal

Ongoing Governance

$50k/yr

Bi-annual Governance Reviews after Year 1.

Monitors drift, constraints, operating degradation, and value realization over time.

Pre-close: determine whether the future combined company is supportable. Post-close: govern whether the integration thesis is becoming operational reality.

Packaging Logic

Evaluate → Stabilize → Govern.

1

Evaluate Align for M&A evaluates whether the current organizations can become the combined company the acquisition requires.

2

Stabilize The review sequences the operating conditions that should be addressed before integration pressure increases.

3

Govern Quarterly Integration Governance Reviews keep the thesis visible, measurable, and operationally honest during the first year.

Part of the 2ndSys Platform

Align for M&A is one application of a broader coordination model.

Every consequential business decision creates a future version of the system. 2ndSys evaluates whether that future system is likely to execute successfully.

Operating

Evaluates whether an organization can support its next stage of growth, transformation, or operational pressure.

AI

Evaluates whether an organization can safely absorb AI into workflows, governance, and customer-facing operations.

M&A

Evaluates whether two or more organizations can successfully become one combined execution system.

Align

Evaluates whether people, managers, teams, and organizations are likely to coordinate effectively together.

Different decisions. Different future systems. One coordination model.

Next Step

Discuss pricing, scope, or partner economics.

Commercial Discussion

Start with the transaction being evaluated.

Transaction fit, pricing assumptions, governance scope, partner economics, and referral conversations can start here.

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For PE buyers Validate whether the scope matches the transaction structure and integration thesis.

For referral partners Discuss partner economics, positioning, and when Align for M&A belongs in a deal conversation.