Acquisition Thesis and Operating Fit System

Outcome: The company has an acquisition thesis stating how operating value arises, where fit is uncertain and what must be true after completion.

Who this is for: CEO, corporate-development leader, COO or owner assessing whether a possible acquisition can work inside the intended operating model.

Corporate development and M&A integration

Buy as much help as the problem deserves.

Each depth is complete in itself: you can stop after any of them and still have your money's worth.

Depth 1

The answer

OctaFlow translates strategic intent into an operating thesis across customers, capabilities, people, processes, data, technology, suppliers and management capacity. It produces fit hypotheses, combined-value risks, dependency questions, integration choices, evidence gaps and a conditional proceed, reshape or stop route. OctaFlow provides no valuation, legal, tax, accounting or regulated transaction advice.

Finished when your team can carry out the plan without us.

$3,000
Depth 2

The working method

OctaFlow installs a thesis and fit product containing value hypotheses, operating-fit criteria, evidence requests, dependency map, management assumptions, red-flag register, integration principles, decision record and validation cadence. It can support several targets without treating them as interchangeable.

Finished when your team runs it on real cases and it holds.

$9,000
Depth 3

The full system

OctaFlow builds a permissioned corporate-development operating layer linking approved target evidence, internal capabilities, decision records and integration assumptions. It tracks what was believed, what was confirmed and what must transfer into post-completion workstreams.

Finished when it works under real conditions we agreed in advance.

$40,000A 25% deposit commences the work. The remaining 75% is payable on completion.

A person reads every order before work starts. If it is the wrong fit, we say so and refund it. Prices are in USD and Octaflow adds no VAT or sales tax.

Proof and ownership

The answer passes when the operating thesis is explicit and decision-relevant uncertainties are named. The working method passes when a representative target is assessed consistently from the installed product. The full system passes when approved assumptions become integration controls and later outcomes test the original thesis.

Commercial terms: Prices are in USD. OctaFlow adds no VAT, sales tax or other transaction tax. For any selected depth priced above $10,000, a 25% deposit is payable to commence and the remaining 75% is payable when the work is completed.

Standard exclusions: Travel, software licences, hosting, third-party data, external regulated opinions, major migration, custom applications and 24/7 support unless separately agreed.

Your business should get smarter every time it solves a problem. Even when we helped.

Five terms sit in every engagement, agreed before work starts. None of them can be traded out, at any depth, at any price.

training on your data never

Nothing you share with us teaches anyone else's system.

what we build for you yours

Files, rules, test cases and the record of what changed, in formats you can read.

model and provider swappable

Switch models, switch suppliers or step away from AI altogether. What we built still works.

decisions that matter your people

Automation does the carrying, never the choosing.

exit and handover day one

Handover, documentation and deletion of our access are agreed before we start.

For larger organisations
Work inside your perimeter or your cloud GDPR-aligned handling, agreed in writing Evidence an auditor can open Procurement-ready documentation Reference conversations on request

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