Research First
We spend 30 days researching your operation before we touch anything. The workflows. The decisions. The relationships. The informal practices that make the business work.
Operations Project Manager · Service-Business Acquisitions
We stabilize newly acquired service businesses so they can grow without breaking.
Diligencka is an operations project manager for service-based business acquisitions. We research your operation, make a Plan of Action, execute it, and hand it off — with a guaranteed timeline.
The Guarantee
Timeline held.
Once you agree on the timeline, we deliver on it. Or we reduce the fee 10% for every week we miss.
Research · Plan of Action · Execute · Hand Off
The Year-One Dip
Integration plans standardize before they diagnose.
Revenue dips. Not because the thesis was wrong, but because the conditions that validated it were disrupted. The Year-One Dip is preventable. We prevent it the same way every time: research first, plan second, execute third.
Plan of Action
We deliver a Plan of Action on day 30 that specifies what needs to happen, in what order, and by when. You approve it before execution.
Execute With Your Team
We work alongside your operation. We build playbooks using tools you already own. We train your team. We make sure the knowledge transfers on time and on budget. Then we leave.
Result: An operation that runs independently. A team that owns the playbook. And a timeline you can plan against.
The Problem Your Numbers Are Not Showing You
Ownership and understanding are different things.
The execution window is 90 days.
In that window, founder knowledge either gets extracted, documented, and transferred to your team — or it stays concentrated in a handful of people, and your growth gets stuck.
The Year-One Dip is preventable insurance.
If a lost-revenue dip costs you $2M+ in year one, a 90-day stabilization engagement is cheap insurance. The math is not close.
Knowledge Concentration
The people who understand how the business works are organized around the people who built it. When someone leaves — or when you need to scale — that knowledge leaves with them.
Undocumented Workflows
Your tools capture structure; people capture logic. The real workflows live in email chains, verbal instructions, and individual memory. Under pressure, the logic breaks first.
Relationship Dependency
Customer relationships, vendor relationships, and informal authority do not run on org charts. They run on trust. When ownership changes, that structure becomes invisible — but it is still carrying the weight.
"The people who built this operation know how it actually works. Most of it is not written down. It lives in people's heads."
How We Work
Research. Plan of Action. Execute. Hand off.
We are your operations project manager for the critical post-close window. Tier 1 is 30 days of research. We learn how money moves through your business — workflows, decisions, relationships, informal practices — and deliver a Plan of Action you own outright.
Tier 2 is implementation — and it is optional. If you engage us, we embed with your team, build playbooks, and validate the system in production. Most engagements run roughly 60 days of build plus a 30-day testing window. The plan defines the duration; we guarantee it.
We exit when your team can execute without us — confirmed through direct observation, not by checking a box.
- 30 days inside your operation, learning how it actually works
- 100-Day Roadmap delivered on day 30 — your approval gates execution
- Playbooks built using tools your business already owns
- Your team trained by doing. We exit when the operation runs without us.
"We do this with you, not for you. The playbook stays when we leave."
Who We Serve
Built for service-business acquisitions. Calibrated to how you actually operate.
Search Fund Operators
You closed your first deal. You need to understand the business deeply, document what works, and build a team that can scale it. This is your first 90 days.
Entry Point
Plan of Action
Independent Sponsors & Acquisition Entrepreneurs
You bought the business. You know it works. You need your team to know it works the way you do — and you need that knowledge documented so you can grow, delegate, or exit.
Entry Point
Plan of Action
Family Office Acquisition Teams
You make strategic acquisitions. You need the operational foundation in place before you try to transform the business. This sprint builds that foundation.
Entry Point
Plan of Action
PE-Backed Operators
Your GP wants you to stabilize and grow the acquisition. First priority: a team that understands how the business works and can execute independently.
Entry Point
By Inquiry
The Diligencka Difference
What standard advisory buys you. What Diligencka delivers.
Standard Advisory Approach
The Diligencka Approach
Slide decks, advisory hours billed by the partner
Direct execution inside the operation
Multi-month onboarding before any value is delivered
30-day diagnostic with a 100-Day Roadmap on day 30
Standardize systems first, diagnose the business second
Research the operation first, then build playbooks around what actually works
We do this for you — leaving your team unchanged
We do this with you — your team learns by doing
Year-One Dip treated as an inevitable cost of integration
Year-One Dip prevented by protecting the conditions that generate revenue
Open-ended engagement, no timeline guarantee
Timeline guaranteed in the Plan of Action — 10% fee reduction per week we miss
The Engagement Model
See the full model Two phases. One model.
Every relationship starts with the 30-day Plan of Action. Implementation only begins when the Roadmap is in hand and you have approved the scope.
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Phase 1 · 30 Days · $10K–$15KPlan of Action
Pay us to research your operation and make the plan.
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Phase 2 · 3-Month Minimum · $15K–$25K/moImplementation
Pay us to execute the plan. Timeline guaranteed.
Ready to move?
Schedule a Diagnostic Conversation
Schedule a diagnostic conversation.
A 30-minute call. No deck, no pitch — just an honest read on whether a 90-day stabilization sprint fits the operation you just bought.