MeridianCogent is an execution platform for M&A separations, carve-outs and integrations. It models what every transitional service actually depends on — so a date that will not hold is visible months before the invoice arrives.
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Every separation has a plan, and every plan has dates on it. What most programmes cannot tell you is which of those dates are still real.
A transitional service ends when the work that replaces it finishes. That work depends on other work. Somewhere in that chain is the task that quietly determines whether September holds — and in a spreadsheet, it is indistinguishable from the forty tasks that do not matter.
By the time it is obvious, the negotiating position is gone and the extension is priced accordingly.
MeridianCogent models the chain that actually governs a separation: what the business runs on, what has to be untangled, which transitional services cannot end until that work completes, and what is genuinely blocking Day 1.
Five stages, each depending on the one before: Systems, Decommission sequencing, TSA exit dependencies, Exit risk, Day 1 readiness.
Every stage reads from the one before it. Nothing here is a status someone updates by hand.
Knowing a service exits in September is useful. Knowing what a two-week slip on a single cutover does to that date — and to the invoice that follows it — is the question a CFO actually asks.
MeridianCogent answers it directly: change one date, and see which transitional services can no longer end when they were meant to, repriced through the same engine that governs the live programme.
Not a forecast. Arithmetic you asked for, on inputs you chose.
Most platforms have gates that record disapproval. The gate turns red, and the work continues anyway, because nothing in the system can stop it.
Here a gate is a real constraint on the schedule. Conditions precedent block closing rather than annotating it. The critical path reflects what is genuinely possible, not what the plan assumed in January.
MeridianCogent does not tell you what a jurisdiction requires, does not score your risks, and does not estimate what is left to spend. Every material figure is entered by a customer or their advisor and formally adopted by a named person before it affects a plan.
Corrections supersede rather than overwrite. When something is adopted, the platform snapshots exactly what was adopted and when — so eighteen months later, the decision that was actually made, on the information actually available, is still there.
These are constraints, not gaps. They are the reason the output is defensible.
Access is scoped to the programme, not the organisation. Advisors and vendors hold time-bounded, logged access to only what they need. Programmes can run under code names, exports are watermarked to whoever generated them, and unusual access patterns are surfaced rather than sitting in a log nobody reads.
Not enterprise add-ons sold separately — how the platform works by default.
Separation offices preparing a business for divestiture. Integration and PMI teams running the programme after close. Corporate development managing several transactions at once. Advisory firms and transaction counsel guiding execution and needing the plan to survive their departure.
Typically eight to forty people per deal team, in mid-market and enterprise transactions.
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