M&A - as - a - service · two engineers · one outcome

Want to be acquired? hire us.

Zac and Nimo have built together at four companies. Three got acquired inside 24 months of them walking in the door. That's not luck - it's a method.

24mo
exit window
0/4
Acquired
0%
Hit rate
0mo
Avg. to close
The deal tape

Four companies.
Same two names
on the commits.

Every line is a place Zac and Nimo joined together. Can you spot the pattern?

01
ipayrollNZ's best payroll solution
still independent
no deal
02
ReshuffleIntegration Platform as a Service
closed in 8 months
Twitter
03
TwitterA social networking service
closed in 19 months
Elon Musk
04
TourWriterLuxury Tourism Operators Software
closed in 11 months
WeTravel
.750
Career acquisition average. The one that got away came first - the next three didn't.
The method

Join early.
Build the inevitable.

No magic, no deck. The same disciplined loop, run to a close - three times running.

PHASE 01

Embed

We drop into your codebase as two senior engineers, not consultants. In weeks we know where the value - and the debt an acquirer will diligence - actually lives.

PHASE 02

Build the story

We ship the product surface, the reliability numbers, and the architecture that flips a buyer's build-vs-buy math to buy.

PHASE 03

Make it inevitable

Clean diligence, a defensible moat, and momentum on a timeline acquirers recognize. Three times running, that's meant a signed term sheet inside 24 months.

The work

What an acquirer
actually looks at.

Buyers do not buy a roadmap. They buy what survives a week of scrutiny. That is what we build.

01

Diligence readiness

Code quality, security posture, licensing, data handling and the paper trail. We answer the questions a buyer's engineers will ask before they ask them.

02

Architecture and reliability

Systems that scale, recover and cost what they should. The uptime history and the cloud bill are both evidence, and both get read.

03

Traction you can prove

A product surface and metrics that stand up to a buyer's analyst. Numbers that reconcile, cohorts that hold, a story that matches the data.

04

Team and continuity

Documentation, ownership and clean hand-offs, so the company keeps working when the founders stop answering every question.

The pair

Two engineers
who ship as a set.

You don't hire Zac. You don't hire Nimo. You hire the interference pattern between them.

Zac

Systems · Infra · The moat

Builds the parts that survive diligence: architecture, reliability, the numbers a technical buyer trusts. If it has to scale under a microscope, it's Zac's.

Nimo

Product · Interface · The narrative

Shapes the surface an acquirer falls for: the product, the traction curve, the "why buy now." Turns a good engine into a company someone writes a check for.

Questions

Fair questions.
Straight answers.

Do you guarantee an acquisition?

No. We stand behind the work, not the outcome. The record is three from four, and every line of it is on the tape above.

Do you run the sale?

No. We are engineers, not bankers. Bring your own advisers. We make their job easier.

Who do you work with?

Product companies with real users and a board that is open to an exit within about two years.

How do you work?

Embedded in your repository and your standups, as two senior engineers, with scope agreed up front.

Do you choose the buyer?

No. Buyers choose. We make saying yes the easy decision.

What is the 24-month window?

Each acquisition on the tape closed within 24 months of the two of us joining. It describes the past. It is not a promise.

Start the 24-month clock

term sheet not guaranteed · the track record is
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