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For investorsBy deal stage · M&A and integration

Capture the synergies you paid for, from the first day after closing.

Most of a deal’s value is decided in the integration. We map both companies from their own data and track every synergy to an owner, so the deal model becomes the operating plan.

Illustrative case · first 10 weeks after closeMerger of two industrial distributors, $2.5B combined revenue$14Mmore revenue synergies a yearon track by week 10Read the case

The problemWhat goes wrong today

Synergies are priced in the model and lost in the integration.

Integration plans are written from interviews and slides. Overlaps between the two companies are estimated, not mapped, and synergy tracking arrives as a monthly deck long after the decisions were made.

By the time a gap shows, the window to close it has passed.

What the benchmarks sayPublished research, with its source

What the research says.

  • ~70%of mergersmiss the revenue synergies they expected1 McKinsey, “Where mergers go wrong”, McKinsey Quarterly, 2004
  • 1 in 4dealsoverestimate cost synergies by 25% or more2 McKinsey, “Where mergers go wrong”, McKinsey Quarterly, 2004
  • <20%of today’s timeexpected time to draft integration plans and TSAs with AI3 Bain & Company, M&A Report 2025 (early adopters)
  • ~20%lower M&A costsaverage reduction reported by respondents using gen AI in M&A4 McKinsey, “Gen AI in M&A: From theory to practice to high performance”, 2026

How AIx2 helpsWhat changes with the company as built

Four things change.

  1. Both sides mapped

    Buyer and target processes, systems and data side by side.

  2. Synergies with owners

    Every synergy tied to a process, a KPI and an owner.

  3. Day-one ready

    Integration plan and TSAs drafted from real data.

  4. Live capture tracking

    Synergies checked weekly against the deal model.

How the work runsThe Five Step Method, in this setting

From read-only access to results, step by step.

  1. Before close

    Both companies connected

    Read-only access to buyer and target systems; overlapping processes identified from data.

  2. Weeks 1–3

    Overlaps mapped

    Every overlapping process mapped end to end, with the cost and revenue lines it touches.

  3. Weeks 3–6

    Synergies owned

    Each synergy in the deal model tied to a process, a KPI and a named owner; TSAs drafted.

  4. Weeks 6–10

    Capture tracked live

    Weekly checks against the deal model; slippage flagged to the owner the same week.

Illustrative caseA worked example, with its arithmetic

Merger of two industrial distributors, $2.5B combined revenue

Illustrative case: a worked example, not a client result. The arithmetic is shown below it.

$14Mmore revenue synergies a yearon track by week 10

The situation

The deal model carried a $120M revenue-synergy target. On the usual track record, about a quarter of it would never arrive.

What AIx2 did

  1. Mapped the overlapping processes of both distributors from their own systems, not samples.
  2. Tied every synergy in the model to a process, a KPI and an owner.
  3. Replaced the monthly synergy deck with weekly, live tracking against the model.

BeforeWith AIx2

Revenue synergies captured

77%89%

Synergy tracking

monthly deckslive

Overlapping processes mapped

samples100%

Illustrative $120M revenue-synergy target. Companies capture about 77% of revenue-synergy targets on average (McKinsey survey of 200 M&A executives). Assumes half the 23% gap closed: 11.5% × $120M ≈ $14M.

What you receiveThe deliverables

What lands on your desk.

  • Side-by-side process map of both companies
  • Synergy register with owners and KPIs
  • Day-one integration plan and TSA drafts
  • Weekly synergy capture report

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