Diligence
See the estate and the risk
About ACQI
ACQI is the approach its founder used to cut integration timeframes by roughly 35% across 35+ entity acquisitions at an international insurance conglomerate and four major M&A programmes at an international wealth management firm — productised so every deal team can do the deal, prove the diligence, execute the move, and run hypercare without flying blind.
Origin
Deals do not fail only in the data centre. They fail when leadership cannot see the estate, cannot trust the diligence picture, and cannot move people and systems with a plan the board can stand behind.
After leading technical due diligence and integration across more than 35 entity acquisitions at an international insurance conglomerate — and four major M&A programmes at an international wealth management firm — founder Lukian Poleschtschuk watched the same pattern repeat at the C-suite table:
Market tools each owned a slice of the problem. Nothing gave CIOs, CTOs, and CFOs a single, decision-grade view from diligence through cutover and hypercare.
Between deals, Lukian built the missing spine: systematic discovery across the estate, then migration planning and governance grounded in real multi-entity programmes. Applied rigorously, integration timeframes fell by roughly 35% — not by working harder in the server room alone, but by giving leadership clarity early enough to act.
ACQI is that approach, productised.
Built by an M&A practitioner who has had to report synergy progress with incomplete data — and refused to accept that as inevitable. Built so every deal team can do the deal, prove the diligence, execute the move, and run hypercare without flying blind.
Mission
The difference between a successful integration and a delayed one is rarely ambition or budget. It is whether the organisation can see what it is buying, plan what it will move, and prove progress under deal pressure. ACQI exists to close that gap permanently.
Who it is for
| Leader | What ACQI supports |
|---|---|
| CIO / CTO | Estate truth, integration risk, Day 1 readiness, technical cutover and hypercare |
| CFO / deal leadership | Diligence confidence, synergy realism, cost of delay, board-ready progress |
| Integration / programme leads | Waves, owners, governance, execution without spreadsheet chaos |
| IT delivery teams | Deep discovery and tooling so the plan is grounded in reality — not assumptions |
The deal lifecycle we serve
See the estate and the risk
Trust the numbers
Waves & owners
Execute with evidence
Stabilise, measure, exit TSA
Know what was acquired: identity, infrastructure, applications, cloud, security, collaboration — before and after signing.
Arm CIOs, CTOs, and CFOs with a defensible picture for investment committees and boards.
Turn discovery into waves, owners, and executable migration — not a pile of inventories.
Track what moved, what is fragile, and what still needs attention after cutover.
What we believe
M&A is already complex. Surface what leaders need to decide and act — not every raw signal equally.
Desktop-first architecture keeps sensitive discovery data on your network. Critical estate detail should not have to leave your control to become visible.
240 discovery modules exist because one missed trust, subscription, or shadow estate can break a wave and a board narrative. Coverage is the foundation of confident diligence and movement.
Discovery without planning is noise. Planning without discovery is fiction. ACQI joins both — and governance so progress is reportable through hypercare.
Journey
For organisations that treat post-merger integration as a strategic capability — not a cost centre after the champagne.
2019
First discovery capability under live M&A pressure
2020
Expanded tooling across three acquisitions
2021
Migration planning from real multi-entity wave experience
2024
M&A governance framework
2025
240 modules; multi-cloud breadth
2026
ACQI platform launch
Leadership
Founder & CEO
20+ yearsin enterprise infrastructure and solutions architecture. Led technical due diligence and integration for M&A across banking and financial services — including 35+ entity acquisitions at an international insurance conglomerate and four major integrations at an international wealth management firm. MCSE; BSc Computer Science.
Formerly Senior Infrastructure Lead (Asset Management) and Senior Solutions Consultant (insurance).
He founded ACQI after living the same executive problem on every complex deal: incomplete visibility when decisions and timelines could not wait. ACQI exists so no integration leadership team has to start from incomplete information again.
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The cost of incomplete discovery is measured in delayed synergies, eroded trust, and missed opportunity — at the board table as much as in the network. We built the platform we needed on every hard integration we led: see the estate, trust the diligence, move with a plan, and hypercare with evidence.
That platform is ACQI.