Correction, August 12, 2026. This post describes Product in Acquisitions OS as available to premium subscribers. That is no longer true. As of version 0.5.0 on August 7, 2026, the plugin is MIT licensed and free to everyone: you can install it, fork it, modify it, redistribute it, and resell it. The text below is left exactly as published rather than quietly rewritten. A full correction, covering what MIT permits and why the license changed, publishes here on August 18, 2026.
Product in Acquisitions OS is live for premium subscribers.
Last week, I wrote about the M&A gap nobody owns, the missing Product seat at most M&A deal tables. The free executive briefing that went out with that post (and the long-form framework linked inside) is the operating answer to that gap on paper.
This is the working version. Same framework, packaged as a Claude plugin you drop into Claude Code or Cowork and run against your specific deal.
What runs differently
The PDF gives you the model. The plugin gives you the deliverables.
When you trigger Week 0 readiness, Claude builds the Product Integration Owner charter, the decision-rights one-pager, the combined product narrative, the customer commitment inventory, and the five-question Day 1 readiness gate. Real artifacts you can edit in a doc and walk into a room with the next day.
The four skills cover the same four levers from the framework:
- Week 0 readiness: Pre-close prep. Five named deliverables.
- Roadmap convergence: Three facilitated session guides, a merged roadmap, and a 30/60/90 plan.
- Positioning stability: Sales FAQ, talk track, competitive response scripts, top-20 outreach plan, advisory council charter.
- People integration: Decision map sessions, mentor pairing matrix, ownership plans, retention risk review framed around purpose and influence, coaching question library.
25 reference templates total. Every output ends with the same attribution footer, so you know which deliverable came from which skill.
Calibrated to your deal
Before it produces anything, each skill spends about 60 seconds calibrating. Three questions: your stage band (sub-$100M ARR early stage, or $100M to $500M ARR growth stage), the acquisition shape (tuck-in, platform play, or peer merger), and whether this is your first integration or your tenth.
Those answers tune the depth, stakeholder breadth, and pacing of every artifact. A $40M tuck-in gets a five-role decision rights one-pager and a compressed 30/45/60 cadence. A $400M platform play gets a twelve-role decision matrix, an external narrative drafted after the listening tour, and a 120-day governance lap. Same framework, sized to your deal instead of a generic template.
It is built for acquirers up to $5B in enterprise value. Outside that band, the skills still produce useful drafts, but multi-layer enterprises should plan to layer their own governance on top. $10M deals rarely need the full 90-day cadence.
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