Close Catalyst
Post-Close Field Manual · No. 001
For first-time buyers under LOI or just closed

You just bought a business. The employees find out tomorrow. Now what?

The hour-by-hour playbook for the 90 days that decide whether your acquisition thrives — or becomes the reason you lose the house you guaranteed it with.

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Recitals

Nobody talks about the moment after the wire clears.

The broker's gone. The lender's gone. Your attorney sent the final bill. And Monday at 8 AM, you walk into a building full of people who've worked for the founder for a decade — and have no idea who you are.

Every book ends at the closing table. This playbook starts there.

Exhibit A

Walk into the transition meeting knowing exactly what to say.

Get the word-for-word employee announcement script and first-week 1-on-1 guide that turns a room full of shocked, 10-year-tenured employees into your allies instead of your first resignations.

Exhibit B

Keep the customers and key people your loan payment depends on.

The retention conversations, stay-bonus framework, and top-10 customer call scripts that protect the cash flow backing your personal guarantee — before a single relationship walks out the door.

Exhibit C

Stop guessing what to do Monday morning.

A day-by-day calendar from signing through day 90 — including the counterintuitive "don't change anything yet" list — so you run the business with a plan while every other first-time buyer is panic-Googling at 2 AM.

Schedule of Deliverables

Inside the free playbook

01The Day-One Employee Announcement ScriptWhat to say when every eye in the room is on you.
02The Key Employee Retention KitStay-bonus template included.
03The 13-Week Cash Flow Command CenterPlug-and-play spreadsheet. Know your runway from day one.
04The Top-10 Customer Call ScriptLock in the revenue your lender underwrote.
05The 90-Day Day-by-Day Operating CalendarSigning through day 90. No guessing.
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For Buyers Under LOI

Want the playbook implemented with you — not just handed to you?

I'm not a coach. I run post-close integration for a living — I've stood in the breakroom on day one, multiple times, while a founder told his 15-year employees the company was sold. The Post-Close Sprint makes me your integration partner from LOI through day 90 — the exact playbook on this page, installed in your deal, with me in the trenches beside you. Here's the calendar we run:

Pre-Close · LOI → Signing

Working capital true-up review, day-one plan built, announcement scripts prepped — your key-employee map drafted before you own the problem.

Week 1

The announcement meeting, scripted and rehearsed together. 1-on-1s launched, banking and payroll cutover checklist running.

Weeks 2–4

Top-10 customer calls, stay-bonus agreements out, your 13-week cash flow live and reviewed together weekly.

Weeks 5–12

Weekly operating calls — cash, people, customers, lender reporting — plus me on speed-dial for the surprises. There are always surprises.

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