Category: Product in Acquisitions
Most acquisitions do not fail at the deal. They fail in the first 90 days of product integration, when two roadmaps, two teams, and two positioning stories collide. I have operated on both sides of seven acquisitions, twice as the seller and five times integrating on the buy side, and these essays turn that experience into playbooks: roadmap convergence, positioning lock-in, and retaining the acquired team. The full framework ships as Product in Acquisitions OS. Start with Why Product Integrations Fail In An Acquisition.
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Product in Acquisitions OS Is MIT Licensed and Free
I sold this plugin as premium in July. It is MIT and free as of August 7. The correction, and the licensing mistake underneath it that was worse than the pricing.
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The Claude Plugin for Product in M&A
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…
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The (M&A) Gap That Nobody Owns
Most product acquisitions do not fail at the deal. They fail three weeks later, in a room nobody from the deal team attends. The deal closes on a Friday. The press release goes out, the all-hands happens, the leadership team takes the photo. Everyone is told the hard part is behind them. Three weeks later,…