The first hundred daysdecide the next ten years.
You have just bought a business. Smart Start gives you live books, a forward looking forecast, monthly reporting and completion accounts through the period when the cost of getting it wrong is highest, so your investment settles, stabilises and scales.
- Three tiers
- Matched to the size and complexity of what you have bought.
- Fixed fee
- Agreed in writing before we start, never on a running clock.
- Day one ready
- Books, forecast and reporting live from the start, not weeks in.
- Real tools
- Xero, Float and Syft, set up around how you want to see the business.
A deal doesn't end at completion. It begins there.
The deal closes, and the new owner faces a different kind of pressure to anything in the deal itself. Suppliers want to know who they are dealing with now. Customers test the new ownership. Staff are watching closely. Cash needs managing in real time rather than reviewing in hindsight, and the forecast that informed the deal needs to become something that supports day to day decisions, not sit static in a spreadsheet.
The first hundred days are when this transition is sharpest, and when good financial information matters most. Smart Start exists to make sure you have it, so the decisions that suddenly need making before lunch are made on real numbers rather than instinct.
Everything your new business needs from day one
Smart Start puts the financial machinery of your acquisition in place and keeps a close watch on it through the period that matters most.
Books migrated to Xero
Your new business on a chart of accounts built around how you want to see it, with bank feeds, payroll and integrations live from the start.
A live three year forecast
A cashflow model in Float showing the business as inherited, with deferred consideration and acquisition finance loaded in, adjusting against actuals.
Monthly reporting
Management information through Syft, in plain English, with the numbers that matter for your business surfaced front and centre.
Completion accounts
Prepared on your SPA terms, agreed with the seller, and journaled back so your records reflect the agreed opening position.
Checkpoint reviews
Structured sessions across the period covering working capital, reporting, completion accounts and a stress test of the forecast against your obligations.
Credit record checks
Keeping watch on your new business's credit record through the change of ownership, so credit lines aren't quietly lost at the worst moment.
The process, start to finish
Silver
For a straightforward acquisition that needs solid foundations. Xero set up and conversion, a three year dynamic cashflow forecast, completion accounts, reporting set up, check-in calls at day 45 and 90, a credit report at day 100 and a day one hundred handover.
Gold
For a business that needs closer attention through the transition. Everything in Silver, plus check-in calls at day 30, 60 and 90, credit reports at day 50 and 100, and more frequent reporting touchpoints.
Platinum
For a complex acquisition where the stakes are highest. Everything in Gold, plus fortnightly check-in calls, credit reports at day 25, 50, 75 and 100, and the closest hands-on support we offer.
Part of a complete journey
Smart Start is the integration phase of our wider acquisition work. Clients who come to us earlier, for a valuation or due diligence, arrive with the foundations already in place and the forecast already built.
Just completed, or about to? Let's get the first hundred days right.
Book a free intro call and we'll explain how Smart Start works and what it would cost for your acquisition. A quick chat about the service and a quote, no pressure.