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You acquired the company. Make sure you acquired what it knows.
The know-how lives with the seller and a few long-time people. We put it in a brain each company's team can ask, before the transition ends.
For holding companies, search funds and independent sponsors that own service businesses.
AI drafts. Your people decide.
Push · Sample
Mon 7:00 a.m. · to the GM
Ask
Labor at 1.4x after hours. Materials at cost plus 22%. Two-hour minimum.
Act
Waiting for your OK.
Sample. Your brain answers from your records.
Key-person risk doesn't show up in the financials.
The seller, the office manager of 20 years, the estimator. Lose one in year one, and the transition plan turns into a rebuild.
The first 90 days after close.
- 1Days 1 to 30
Month 1
Build the brain
We build the brain across every company you own. The seller records how they price and who to call, with their OK.
- 2Days 31 to 60
Month 2
Fix what's wrong
We go into each company and fix what's wrong. GMs check the answers, and automations start where money leaks.
- 3Days 61 to 90
Month 3
Run and measure
The brain and several automations run across the portfolio, measured against the numbers we picked on day one.
One brain per company. One view across all of them.
- A GM sees only their company. Your holding company team can ask across all of them.
- The same weekly numbers from every company, whatever software it runs.
- When two companies do the same job with different vendors, you see it side by side.
- The next acquisition goes faster. You keep the playbook.
You stay in charge.
You'll work with Mac Earle directly, over screen-share from Miami. We run Second Shift on our own brain.
- A person approves before anything goes out.
- Every answer shows where it came from. Unsure gets flagged for a person.
- Each company sees only its own data. You decide who sees across them.
- Your data stays yours: single-tenant, US-hosted, encrypted, never used for training.
- You own what we build. The brain stays with the company when you sell it.
Questions owners ask us.
Our companies run on different software.
The brain sits on top of each one. No company has to switch systems.
Will the seller cooperate?
Frame it as protecting what they built. We keep their sessions short, and they review what goes in.
We closed a year ago. Is it too late?
No. Start with the long-time people who still carry the answers.
Will our teams think we're replacing them?
Tell them how it works: AI drafts. Your people decide. Nothing changes in the field, and their know-how goes in with their name on it.
Who at Second Shift sees our data?
Only Mac, plus our machine learning engineer on a complex build, and only what setup or a fix needs. You can see what we connected and turn any of it off.
