Assess whether a top customer is actually sticky (72bf4c)
August 31, 2026 · SmartSolo
Situation
Buy-side QoE lead in a roll-up of three regional service companies has one working extract — regulatory-approval critical-path calendar — after a QoE that cannot tie revenue to bank cash. If regulatory-approval critical-path calendar cannot support a top customer is actually sticky, the honest M&A Due Diligence output is hold.
Decision
Buy-side QoE lead in a roll-up of three regional service companies must choose Proceed / Reprice / Walk / Hold using regulatory-approval critical-path calendar after a QoE that cannot tie revenue to bank cash.
Hypotheses to test
- Authorize Proceed now; regulatory-approval critical-path calendar already has the discriminator after a QoE that cannot tie revenue to bank cash.
- Keep Reprice in force until regulatory-approval critical-path calendar is completed after a QoE that cannot tie revenue to bank cash for buy-side QoE lead.
- Treat regulatory-approval critical-path calendar as Walk because both readings appear after a QoE that cannot tie revenue to bank cash.
- Refuse a M&A Due Diligence close: buy-side QoE lead does not have the page a top customer is actually sticky turns on in regulatory-approval critical-path calendar.
Analysis required
- Test whether a QoE that cannot tie revenue to bank cash is a diligence gap, a price chip, or a walk-away.
- Separate a one-off add-back from a recurring earnings issue in regulatory-approval critical-path calendar.
- Map reps, earnout mechanics, and integration risk a roll-up of three regional service companies would inherit.
- For this M&A Due Diligence People and Contracts file, read regulatory-approval critical-path calendar against a QoE that cannot tie revenue to bank cash and write the one fact that would move a top customer is actually sticky for buy-side QoE lead.
Recommendation
From regulatory-approval critical-path calendar after a QoE that cannot tie revenue to bank cash, choose Proceed when regulatory-approval critical-path calendar itself shows the discriminator for a top customer is actually sticky. Buy-side QoE lead in a roll-up of three regional service companies should implement that path on this M&A Due Diligence People and Contracts file and name the two facts in regulatory-approval critical-path calendar that force it. If regulatory-approval critical-path calendar after a QoE that cannot tie revenue to bank cash cannot support Proceed versus Reprice, buy-side QoE lead must do not proceed, reprice, or walk on a quality-of-earnings fact the packet does not carry.
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