Buyer-Led M&A™ Intelligence for the Buy Side
The operating standard for modern M&A teams: playbooks, patterns, and tools built to execute, not theorize.
Your Best Deals Create the Most Value—Then Disappear
Every diligence cycle surfaces new risks. Every integration reveals what actually works. But that learning ends up buried in decks, inboxes, or institutional memory. The next time around, teams relearn the same lessons at real cost.
“You can’t scale what you can’t repeat.”
Stop Reinventing. Start Repeating.
M&A Science distills how top teams run deals into a practical operating standard comprising templates, playbooks, and decision cadences organized by role and deal stage so execution stays consistent.
Capture
Extract patterns from real execution.
Standardize
Convert insight into reusable operating standards.
Execute
Get what you need when you need it.
The Operating Standard for Buyer-Led Execution
Built from 400+ operator interviews, the Buyer-Led M&A™ Framework defines how top teams plan, diligence, integrate, and capture value consistently.
Never M&A on Impulse
Unified Process, Tools & Data
Win-Win Approach
The Buyer-Led M&A™ Framework
Synchronized Diligence & Integration
Built for Scalability
Searchable M&A Execution Mapped to Role + Deal Stage
Search operator playbooks, templates, checklists, and case patterns organized by role, deal stage, and resource type so you can find what you need in seconds.
Planning Integration During Diligence
Retaining Key Leaders After Close
Cultural Alignment That Doesn’t Kill Velocity
Building a Repeatable Deal Cadence
Integration Cost Planning That Protects Value
Skill Tracks Built for Real Deal Work
Most M&A programs teach concepts. We build capability. Each Skill Track maps to a Buyer-Led outcome, including templates, examples, and execution steps to make it real.
Corp Dev Lead
What you’re buying, why it fits, and what kills it.
Diligence Cadence & Decisions
Weekly rhythm, owners, red flags, go/no-go.
Integration Built in Diligence
Day 1 plan, resourcing, value drivers, risk.
Value Capture & Operating Plan
Synergy model → owners → milestones → KPIs.
Core Deal Templates
NDA, LOI, diligence requests, integration plan.
Full Access to the Buy-Side Operating Standard
Intelligence Hub. Skill Tracks Coming Soon. Live Labs. Operator sessions. Templates sourced from real deals. One membership to run Buyer-Led M&A™ with more discipline, fewer surprises, and less rework.
Operator Insight
400+ interviews with corp dev, PE, and integration leaders.
Playbooks & Templates
Ready-to-use resources sourced from real execution.
Labs & Live Sessions
Work through real scenarios with operators and facilitators.
Community Access
Connect with dealmakers across functions and industries.
AI That Finds What You Need, Grounded in M&A Science IP
You shouldn’t have to hunt. Tell us your role, deal stage, and situation, and we surface the most relevant playbooks, templates, and Skill Tracks Coming Soon from the M&A Science library. Built from our licensed IP, not generic internet noise.
- Role + stage-based recommendations
- “Next best template” suggestions—what to produce next
- Guided sequencing from question → decision → execution
Learn From Operators With Reps
M&A Science Facilitators have led deals end-to-end. They’ve carried decision rights, managed real tradeoffs, and built the templates teams rely on under pressure.
Make Your Internal Playbook the Ever-Current Standard
Enterprise turns your org’s M&A know-how into a repeatable operating standard. Bring your training materials, templates, workflows, and deal guides, then keep them current with post-mortems and lessons learned. New hires ramp faster. Deal teams stay aligned. Your best practices stop dying in decks.
Create
Upload internal training, templates, workflows, and deal guides. Build a private, branded reference for how your org runs M&A.
Assign
Deliver role-based tracks across corp dev, integration, finance, legal, HR, all aligned to your deal cadence and governance.
Evolve
Capture post-mortems after every deal so your “latest best practice” stays current and fewer mistakes show up in post-close performance.
Where Practitioners Share Reps and Raise the Standard
Join Science Fair, Labs, and small-group roundtables. Bring real situations. Get real operating answers. Leave with templates you can ship.
Trusted by the Global M&A Community
Every Deal Should Make the Next One Better
M&A Science is where buy-side M&A finally learns from itself, so teams stop relearning what someone three deals ago already figured out.