Diligence is only the starting point
The deal record, data room, models, and project files matter. They rarely contain the informal workflows and fragile dependencies that change integration outcomes.
Confidential AI workstream · post-close M&A
An AI integration team for post‑acquisition integration decisions.
Covalence runs the analysis workstream: it reviews the deal record, interviews the people who run the business, reconciles conflicting evidence, and delivers source-linked recommendations in days.
Confidential workstream, not a software rollout
Interviews with the people who run the work
Evidence-backed options before the plan hardens
Trust boundary
NDA-first
Redacted, bounded start
No training on deal data
Customer materials excluded
Source-linked
Every recommendation is auditable
Senior PMI operator input
Solvay · Cognis · Perstorp
The gap
The hard part is not tracking the integration. It is knowing what to do.
The missing piece is the analysis work between diligence and execution: finding what the data room does not show, reconciling what different teams know, and turning it into decisions before integration damages the value the buyer paid for.
The people who run the work must be interviewed
Covalence runs structured interviews across management, functions, and frontline teams to surface what never made it into the data room.
Integration choices need pressure-testing
Merging teams, retiring systems, changing reporting lines, and exiting TSAs should be tested against how the company actually works.
What Covalence does
Covalence does the integration analysis work.
It does not just clean up deal materials. It reviews the record, interviews the people who run the work, reconciles conflicting evidence, maps dependencies, and delivers a decision brief the deal team can accept, challenge, or extend.
Structured interview pass
Covalence interviews management, functions, and frontline teams to surface hidden dependencies, workarounds, and risks missing from the data room.
Operating model from evidence
Finance, operations, contracts, systems, projects, and team knowledge are reconciled into one source-linked view of how the company works.
Integration options tested
Team merges, reporting-line changes, TSA exits, and system retirements are tested against the dependencies they affect.
Recommended integration options
Covalence proposes the options most likely to preserve what makes the business valuable while unlocking synergies.
Evidence trail
Every recommendation carries the owners, KPIs, dependencies, contracts, risks, and sources it would affect.
Sample operating brief
Evidence-ranked integration options
A source-linked decision brief the deal team can accept, challenge, or extend before the plan hardens.
Interviews42 synthesized
Dependencies18 mapped
Owner risk7 flagged
TSA impact3 exposures
Merge enterprise sales leadership in phase 2
CRO · acquired entity
Tier-2 customer relationships rely on local escalation paths.
11 interviews · CRM churn notes · renewal calendar
Keep customer implementation workflow separate
COO · integration lead
Standardization would remove the speed-of-execution that made the asset valuable.
Ops interviews · project cycle data · support backlog
Delay ERP retirement until contract reporting is isolated
CIO · finance controller
IT savings create TSA, reporting, and contract continuity exposure.
TSA terms · finance close process · vendor contract map
Confidential sprint
Four weeks. One integration decision. Covalence runs the analysis workstream.
Start with one active, recent, or redacted integration decision. Covalence reviews the record, interviews the owners, pressure-tests the options, and delivers a source-linked brief your deal team can accept, challenge, or extend.
01
Set the decision boundary
Choose the decision, materials, access rules, interview list, and sponsor.
DeliversDecision scope
02
Build the operating base
Ingest diligence, financials, contracts, TSA terms, systems, org charts, KPIs, and project artifacts into a source-linked view.
DeliversOperating base
03
Interview the real owners
Run structured interviews across leadership, functions, and frontline teams to expose hidden dependencies, local workarounds, risks, and synergy constraints.
DeliversInterview synthesis
04
Return the decision brief
Compare the options against owners, KPIs, dependencies, contracts, TSA exposure, and risk signals. Deliver the evidence behind each recommendation.
DeliversDecision brief
Security posture
Confidential by default, scoped before data moves.
Start with redacted materials or one bounded workstream. Access, retention, deployment, and review controls are agreed before sensitive deal data is introduced. Customer deal data is never used for model training.
NDA-first process
Redacted or single-workstream start
Customer deal data excluded from training
Source-linked outputs for reviewability
Vision
The long-term ambition is a decision model of the acquired company.
Model the company before changing it
Covalence builds a model of how the acquired company works, so integration teams can see the likely consequences of major operating changes before committing to them.
Rank possible integration paths
Once the company is modeled, Covalence can compare many integration scenarios and surface the few most likely to preserve what makes the business valuable while unlocking synergies.
Make integration choices before they harden
The goal is to reduce costly post-close mistakes, accelerate integration, and surface synergies missed by workshops, spreadsheets, or narrow consultant sampling.
Rémi Al Ajroudi is an AI engineer building Covalence with senior M&A operators. His work sits at the intersection of model-based AI, evidence systems, and institutional analysis.
TrainingÉcole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay · MVA
ResearchApple · University of Tokyo · Carnegie Mellon
FocusEvidence-backed AI systems
The domain work is shaped with Patrice Pinsard, former executive at Solvay, Cognis, and Perstorp, with post-acquisition integration experience across Europe, the US, Brazil, China, and India.
Post-acquisition integration
The integration decisions that matter most harden early. Pressure-test them before they become expensive to reverse.
Covalence runs confidential analysis sprints with PE, M&A, and corp-dev teams facing an active, recent, or redacted integration decision.