Guides

Field guides for the post-deal mess

Written for the people doing the work — COOs, VPs of ops, integration leads. Plain language, checklists over theory, no vendor pitches.

Pillar guide

The Broadband M&A Systems Cutover: First 90 Days

The guide we'd hand a COO on day one. What breaks first, what to stabilize, how to pick the system of record, and how to migrate in waves without losing revenue.

Dual-run billing without losing revenue

How to run two billing systems in parallel — reconciliation, exception queues, and knowing when to cut over.

Choosing a system of record when every vendor wants to be it

A vendor-neutral decision framework, per domain, with a decision memo template.

Field → bill: stopping the truck-roll / invoice gap

Why completed work orders never become billable events — and how to close the loop.

Data you must validate before subscriber migration

The six data domains to validate per wave, and how to validate each one.

Why AI pilots stall when CRM ≠ billing ≠ plant

The unglamorous prerequisites nobody's pilot deck mentions — and what to fix first.