What am I actually buying?
Operational diligence at deal speed.
Before you sign, Aria maps the target's operations in three weeks. Not a data-room summary — a live readout of how the business actually runs, where the synergy math holds, and where it quietly doesn't.
What Aria does in M&A Diligence.
- 01 / 04CapabilityThree-week diagnostic
Three-week diagnostic
Legal and financial diligence already run in parallel. Operational diligence should too — and finally can.
- 02 / 04CapabilityGrounded synergy math
Grounded synergy math
Every assumed synergy line gets tied to an observed workflow. The ones that survive contact with reality are the ones you underwrite.
- 03 / 04CapabilityIntegration risks pre-close
Integration risks pre-close
Surface the retention cliffs, system gaps and process debt before the signature page, not in the first 100 days.
- 04 / 04CapabilityTransfers to Day 1
Transfers to Day 1
The same system that ran diligence runs integration. No re-onboarding, no re-mapping, no lost context.
How Aria runs M&A Diligence, end to end.
- Diligence charter
Scope the diagnostic in 48 hours.
Aria aligns with the deal team on what has to be tested — synergy lines, retention cliffs, system overlaps — and scopes an access plan that respects deal confidentiality and the target's operating rhythm.
Artifact · Signed diligence charterSigned diligence charterObserving- Back-office consolidationSupported
- Vendor rationalizationSupported
- Procurement savingsSupported
- Stakeholder interviews
Talk to the people who run the operation.
Aria interviews the operators — not just the C-suite — in short, targeted sessions. What can't be observed from systems, Aria collects from the humans who know where the work actually happens.
Artifact · Operator interview transcriptsOperator interview transcriptsMapping- Vendor rationalizationSupported
- Procurement savingsSupported
- Plant consolidationAt risk
- Operating readout
Map the target's real operation.
A live operating readout of how the target actually runs today — dependencies, bottlenecks, reliance on individuals, gaps the seller wouldn't describe the same way.
Artifact · Target operating readoutTarget operating readoutRanking- Procurement savingsSupported
- Plant consolidationAt risk
- R&D synergyDowngrade
- Synergy grounding
Tie every synergy line to an observed workflow.
The synergy math survives contact with reality. For each committed synergy, Aria points to the workflow it rides on, the assumptions behind the number, and the risks to the capture.
Artifact · Grounded synergy thesisGrounded synergy thesisDeploying- Procurement savingsSupported
- Plant consolidationAt risk
- R&D synergyDowngrade
- Integration runbook
Hand off a Day 1 runbook.
The diligence work doesn't die at signing. The operating readout carries straight into Day 1 integration — same system, same context, same Aria.
Artifact · Day 1 integration runbookDay 1 integration runbookProving- Procurement savingsSupported
- Plant consolidationAt risk
- R&D synergyDowngrade
“Synergy math that doesn't survive contact with the operation isn't math — it's theater.”Aria methodology · M&A Diligence
What Aria ships.
Every engagement surfaces as a live Synapse workspace. The readout below is how M&A Diligence looks the week it ships — scenario data from the published live demo.
- Back-office consolidationOn trackAP / AR overlap across three ERPsSupported
- Vendor rationalizationOn trackTail-spend — 2,100+ vendors unobservedSupported
- Procurement savingsOn trackNo centralized demand signalSupported
- Plant consolidationWatchUtilization 58% / 71% · capacity asymmetricAt risk
- R&D synergyCriticalDifferent tech stacks, no shared IPDowngrade
Setting a new standard for operating intelligence.
“The findings were gold.”VP · Electric Grid Operations
- Client
- Fortune 500 energy utility
- 20,000+ employees · U.S. regulated utility
- Scope
- Electric Grid Operations
- Three-week diagnostic
- What Aria found
- Fifteen automations identified. Eighty percent of operational time mapped to repetitive work — all sized, ranked and handed off to the operating team.
What you leave with.
Artifacts that outlive the engagement — every deliverable grounded in the operating model Aria builds during the assessment, maintained live after close.
- Target operating readout
- Integration risk register
- Synergy thesis grounded in observed workflows
- Day 1 integration runbook
Explore the surfaces behind every engagement.
Every Aria engagement rides on the same four product surfaces — whichever solution you scope, you get the same assessment cadence, agent deployment, interview system, and research model.
- Operating readoutOperating readout
Assessment & Diagnosis
The six-week operational intelligence assessment behind every engagement.
Explore - Autonomous agentsKYC triage agentLiveThroughput+38%Cycle time−44%Exceptions2Running
Agent Deployment
Custom AI agents that ship against measured waste — success criteria up front.
Explore - Conversation intelligenceARA
Stakeholder Interviews
Aria runs targeted operator interviews to close the gaps the systems can't fill.
Explore - ResearchMcKinsey 7SSCORPorter 5FBLSFREDIBISWorldAPQC PCF
Aria V1 Research Model
Twelve industries, forty-plus frameworks, eighteen named benchmark sources.
Explore
The questions buyers ask before signing.
If the answer isn't here, ask Aria in the live demo — Aria will answer with the same benchmark discipline the engagement uses.
Can Aria run diligence without target cooperation?
Partially — from public data, filings, and the financial data room. Full operational readout requires limited target access, typically negotiated in exclusivity.Does this replace our legal and financial diligence?
No. Aria sits alongside legal and financial diligence, covering the operational axis they aren't built for. Most deal teams already run three streams in parallel; we become the fourth.What's the actual turnaround?
Three weeks from kickoff to an integration-ready operational readout. Tight timelines are the norm, not the exception.How does this work for cross-border deals?
The industry benchmark panels scale across jurisdictions. The regulatory frame attaches per industry — HIPAA for US healthcare, MDR for EU medical devices, for example — and Aria cites the specific source behind each reference.What security posture does Aria bring to the deal room?
SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 aligned. Deal-specific tenanting with audit trails. Aria's observations never leave the engagement environment; access is revoked at signing, or at the walk-away point, whichever comes first.How do you compress the three weeks if exclusivity is shorter?
The standard is three weeks; we've run compressed scopes of fourteen and even ten days for LOI-to-sign windows. The trade-off is narrower scope — fewer synergy lines tested, fewer stakeholder interviews — disclosed in the diligence charter.Who on the deal team typically owns the engagement?
The deal principal or operating partner sponsors, alongside the diligence lead on the PE or Corp Dev side. Bankers, lawyers and other advisors receive the readout but don't set scope.
Operational diligence at deal speed.
Book a demo and see how Aria works through M&A Diligence.