How do I make them one company — without losing the value?
Integration that protects the synergy.
Close is the beginning. Aria captures institutional knowledge before it walks out the door, maps both operations onto one, and deploys the agents that make Day 30 look like Year 3.
What Aria does in Post-Merger Integration.
- 01 / 04CapabilityCapture before the cliff
Capture before the cliff
The people who know how the acquired business runs rarely stay. Aria interviews, observes and records that knowledge while it's still on the payroll.
- 02 / 04CapabilityUnify two operations
Unify two operations
Both companies, one live system of record. Aria reconciles the overlapping workflows and flags the ones that need a decision.
- 03 / 04CapabilityAutomate the integration work
Automate the integration work
The repetitive integration tasks that drag PMI for quarters — data mapping, access provisioning, duplicate reconciliation — go to agents.
- 04 / 04CapabilityTrack synergy in dollars
Track synergy in dollars
Every committed synergy line is watched live. You know whether you're ahead, behind or on thesis — before the next board update.
How Aria runs Post-Merger Integration, end to end.
- Knowledge capture
Capture before the retention cliff.
The people who know how the acquired business really runs rarely stay past Year 1. Aria interviews, observes and records that knowledge while it's still on the payroll.
Artifact · Institutional knowledge archiveInstitutional knowledge archiveObserving- HR systems unification74%
- Vendor consolidation112%
- Plant sourcing savings61%
- Operating unification
Reconcile two operations into one.
Both entities, one live operating model. Aria reconciles overlapping workflows — which stays, which retires, which merges — and flags the ones that need a human decision.
Artifact · Unified operating modelUnified operating modelMapping- Vendor consolidation112%
- Plant sourcing savings61%
- IT infrastructure28%
- Integration agents
Automate the integration toil.
Data mapping, access provisioning, duplicate reconciliation — the integration work that drags PMI for quarters gets deployed as agents, with auditing and rollback.
Artifact · Deployed integration agentsDeployed integration agentsRanking- Plant sourcing savings61%
- IT infrastructure28%
- Finance close cycle14%
- Synergy tracker
Watch the synergy capture live.
Every committed synergy line gets a live metric. Ahead, behind or on thesis — known before the next board update, not discovered in it.
Artifact · Synergy capture trackerSynergy capture trackerDeploying- Plant sourcing savings61%
- IT infrastructure28%
- Finance close cycle14%
- Thesis realization
Document the value against the thesis.
When the deal thesis period closes, the capture-versus-thesis report is already assembled — with the operational evidence behind every number.
Artifact · Thesis-realization reportThesis-realization reportProving- Plant sourcing savings61%
- IT infrastructure28%
- Finance close cycle14%
“The value doesn't walk out the door on Day 1. It walks out by Day 90 — one institutional-memory at a time.”Aria methodology · Post-Merger Integration
What Aria ships.
Every engagement surfaces as a live Synapse workspace. The readout below is how Post-Merger Integration looks the week it ships — scenario data from the published live demo.
- HR systems unificationOn trackOn thesis · 74% of planned migrations closed74%
- Vendor consolidationOn trackAhead · renegotiation cycle compressed112%
- Plant sourcing savingsOn trackOn thesis · tracking to Q3 lock-in61%
- IT infrastructureWatchBehind · resource gap on cut-over team28%
- Finance close cycleCriticalBlocked · pending audit signoff14%
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.
- Unified operating system across both entities
- Institutional knowledge capture and retention playbook
- Integration agent deployment plan
- Live synergy-capture tracker
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.
When should post-merger work actually start?
Ideally pre-close, via the M&A diligence deployment that becomes the Day 1 operating model. At the latest, Day 1 itself — any later and the retention cliff has started eroding knowledge.How do you avoid burning out the acquired team?
Aria does the interview work at the operator's pace — short, targeted sessions. Humans review and correct. The acquired team gets a tool that makes their life easier, not another ask.How is synergy actually tracked?
Each committed synergy line is assigned an observable metric in the operational telemetry. Variance from plan is flagged automatically with the underlying workflow cited.What about cultural integration?
Not in our scope. We run operational integration. Cultural work is a human effort — but Aria removes the friction-points that cause cultural clashes to compound.What's the relationship between the diligence work and post-merger?
Same system, same context, same Aria. The operating readout built during diligence is the operating model on Day 1. Teams that run both phases with Aria save roughly three weeks of re-onboarding at close.How does Aria handle knowledge that lives in someone's head?
Stakeholder interviews, recorded with consent and mapped to the workflows they describe. Aria captures tacit knowledge the way a new hire would — by asking — and preserves it in a form that survives the employee leaving.What if the integration thesis changes after close?
Theses often do — markets shift, people leave, assumptions break. The operating model is live, so the synergy tracker reflects the current thesis, not a snapshot frozen at close.
Integration that protects the synergy.
Book a demo and see how Aria works through Post-Merger Integration.