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Notes from AtlanticM&A, the Agentic Transformation OS, on integration, divestiture, value creation, transformation and cloud migration work.
PwC found the value gap. It sits in the execution system.
PwC's 2026 M&A Integration Survey finds only about one in three acquirers fully achieve their deal thesis. What separates them is the system that turns the thesis into owned, measured work.
Can't I just do this in Claude? Why transformations fail between people
Why an AI assistant on every laptop does not run a transformation, and what a shared system of work gives people and agents that personal assistants cannot.
Several deals, one plan: Buy and Build in AtlanticM&A
How AtlanticM&A brings several acquisitions under one value creation plan, keeps each deal's record, and keeps every earnout tracked.
Cadence Centre: the governance rhythm, without the chasing
Cadence Centre runs a programme's recurring meetings: invite lists from the governance structure, the right pack attached, and the notes that come back.
Report Centre: the steering committee pack, built from the plan
Report Centre builds the steering committee pack from live project data, in your own brand, and takes your PowerPoint edits back in.
Easy Onboard: bring a running project into AtlanticM&A
Easy Onboard brings a project that is already running into AtlanticM&A. Import the plan and risk register you keep today and carry on.
Accepted to the founding cohort of the Turing Frontier Fellows
Richard Parry is in the founding cohort of the Turing Frontier Fellows, a four-month programme for senior operators applying AI in their own field.
Transformation offices: run the programme where the work is done
For Transformation Offices: workstreams, charters, benefits, change and the steering pack in one system of work, with the method kept when advisers leave.
Serial acquirers: stop rebuilding the playbook on every deal
For PE-backed platforms: start every acquisition from the last one, run several integrations side by side, and track synergies against the underwrite.
PE Operating Partners: one playbook, read across the portfolio
For PE Operating Partners: run each portco's programme in one place, start every deal from the same method, and read progress from live project data.
Corporate Development: keep the integration method between deals
AtlanticM&A for in-house Corporate Development: the integration method, templates, lessons and board reporting stay with your team between deals.
For independent consultants: a team's output, without the team
AtlanticM&A for independent consultants and interim managers: the plan, the method and the client pack in one place, under your brand.
Why transformation work needs an Agentic Transformation OS
An Agentic Transformation OS is where transformation work is done, not filed afterwards. Why the category exists and how it differs from a chatbot.
A tour of AtlanticM&A: one week of a programme, and the features it passes through
A tour of AtlanticM&A that follows one week of a programme, from a meeting on Monday to the steering pack on Thursday, all read from the same live plan.
Change Management: the people side, on the same plan as the systems work
Change Management runs impacted populations, communications, readiness, sponsors and resistance inside the programme, on every AtlanticM&A plan.
Why I built AtlanticM&A
Richard Parry, founder of AtlanticM&A, on M&A and transformation work since 1998, and why keeping the plan current was the real problem.
AI Power Build: a whole integration plan, built while you watch
AI Power Build drafts the Strategic Direction, a charter per workstream and a work plan with its first wave dated, in minutes. Every item stays editable.
Stakeholder Co-Pilot: brief yourself on anyone in 90 seconds
Stakeholder Co-Pilot briefs you on any stakeholder in 90 seconds, suggests ways to engage them and records which you tried and whether they worked.
How AtlanticM&A compares, and the one test to apply to any vendor
AtlanticM&A beside Midaxo, DealRoom, Devensoft, Shibumi and Conductor: what only one column describes, where we lose, and the test to apply.
TSA Tracker: the agreement becomes the exit plan
TSA Tracker reads your TSA addendum, gives every service its own exit clock and estimates which exits depend on which. On every plan from Independent up.
Line of Sight: from value driver to the work that delivers it
Line of Sight in AtlanticM&A traces each value driver through its charter objectives to the work and risks delivering it, and shows where it breaks.
The earnout outlasts the integration
An earnout runs for years after the integration team has moved on. The Earnout Ledger keeps the buyer's record of every period in the company's own system, not an adviser's.
The transformation office does not need better reporting
McKinsey is right that the transformation office is too large, too manual and too late. Automating the centre helps; a client-owned system of work is the answer.
Introducing AtlanticM&A
AtlanticM&A is the Agentic Transformation OS: integration, divestiture, value creation, transformation and cloud migration programmes planned, run and reported in one place. 14-day trial, no card.