A deal closes on the legal calendar, not the separation plan. Your TSAs run 12 to 36 months. Your Day 1 readiness sits on spreadsheets scattered across four organisations. And the cost of getting it wrong compounds monthly.
MeridianCogent is a control environment for the people running the hardest part of the deal — the part that happens after close. Separation offices and integration teams use it to track obligations, manage TSAs, measure Day 1 readiness, and hold themselves to the commitments they've made.
It's built for people who know that “in progress” is not a state, that dependencies matter more than features, and that the decision record is as valuable as the deal itself.
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You're building a business to be sold, or preparing one for carve-out. Your work is scoped into the sale package months before a buyer exists. You need a single source of truth for TSA scope, entanglement inventory, and separation dependencies — not because it's nice to have, but because buyers ask for it, and giving them a diligent plan is how you avoid repricing the deal later.
You inherited a populated programme on day one instead of a blank spreadsheet on day two. Your programme is already in the tool; the plan is already there. Your problem now is execution — tracking what's blocking, what's at risk, and whether you're actually going to make your Day 1 dates. You need visibility into the dependencies, not another status dashboard.
You're evaluating and running multiple deals in parallel — or you will be once the market turns back on. You need to know, across your portfolio, which deals are running hot, which TSAs are at risk of overrun, and which integration commitments you're actually on track to deliver. A platform subscription is cheaper than losing half a deal's value to a missed TSA exit.
You're guiding a team through a deal that doesn't fit a template — maybe a complex carve-out, maybe a hostile situation, maybe a regulatory carve. You need a tool that holds the plan you designed together without forcing you into someone else's taxonomy. And you need your client to execute against it with discipline after you've moved to the next deal.
The problem looks like this: your deal is tracked in spreadsheets, status emails, and handshake agreements — not because anyone wants it that way, but because nobody's built the alternative. Every change is invisible to someone who needs to know. Every dependency sits in someone's head. Every commitment is re-negotiated when it slips. MeridianCogent replaces the spreadsheet with a control environment: one place where you define what needs to happen, who is accountable for it, and when it needs to be done. The difference is not in the feature count. It's in visibility — the moment something goes at-risk, everyone who needs to know finds out, and you have an audit trail of every commitment and every decision that led to it. That sounds like project management. It's actually protection. Your deal's value sits in the execution after close. Protecting that value means seeing it clearly.
Separation scope, TSA obligations, and Day 1 readiness live in separate spreadsheets, owned by separate teams, in separate organisations. No one is looking at the whole picture, because the whole picture doesn't exist in one place.
A workstream marked “in progress” can mean almost anything. Without a defined standard for done and a named owner for each obligation, a status report describes activity, not readiness.
The commitments that matter are the ones that block other commitments. When those links aren't tracked, a missed date in one workstream surfaces as a surprise in another — usually too late to absorb cheaply.
MeridianCogent is the category of tool that treats execution as the deliverable: one source of truth for obligations and readiness, held to the commitments that were actually made.
We're building for the integration and separation teams running deals right now. Early access opens in phases — diagnostics first, then the full platform. If you're running a carve-out or integration, we'd like to hear from you.
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