Straight answers.

Two things, both from inside the building, both on a flat fee. As Integration Partner, Dr. Scott Kimball makes two companies one in twelve weeks through the engagement Becoming One™: org chart, leadership seats, decision rights, pay structure, cadence, and a name and a date on every synergy. As Operating Partner, he holds a seat at the leadership table one day a week, on retainer, in founder-led and PE-backed companies that have a plan and nobody in the building to run it.

Acquirers, private-equity sponsors, boards, and the founders who just sold to them or are stepping back. By shape, not sector: multi-site or about to be, 100 to 1,000 people, $20M to $250M in revenue, with an ownership change behind it. Manufacturing, services, consumer goods, HVAC, distribution. The org chart does not care what the company makes.

Yes. Becoming One™ runs in three shapes: two companies into one; a platform absorbing bolt-ons, where the operating model is built once and deployed to each add-on in the same sequence; and a multi-company consolidation, where several acquired businesses are brought under one operating entity with centralized shared services and one leadership structure. Six manufacturers across seven plants into one company; eleven HVAC businesses into one.

Structure, Stability, Direction, in that order, because the failures run in the same order. Structure puts the right people, roles and decision rights in place. Stability builds the cadence, systems and behaviors that make performance repeatable. Direction aligns the organization, capital and accountability around the outcomes that matter. Each gate closes with a page the board initials. The doctrine, in full →

The methods inside the gates, one per offer. UNITE is the integration: Unify command, Name the decisions, Install the rhythm, Tie money to names, Engage the people. BUILT is the seat: Boundaries, a Unified plan, an Installed team, a Locked rhythm, Tracked money. Each is five lines a board can score in five minutes, free, on the readiness checks.

Integration Partner: $75,000 flat for twelve weeks, invoiced by gate; a gate not met is not invoiced. Scoped after the $7,500 Integration Read, credited in full toward Becoming One™ if signed within 30 days. Operating Partner: $12,500 a month, six-month minimum, two seats and never more; it starts with a diagnostic month that stands on its own. Never a success fee, a percentage of the synergies or the sale, or equity for expertise.

A 20-minute call. Then, for an integration, the Integration Read: Scott reads your integration plan the way the board will, in writing, inside five days, with two working sessions. For the seat, the diagnostic month: four days in the building, every leader interviewed, the numbers read, a one-page plan. You see him before you commit to either.

We sequence IT and name its owner; your IT partner runs it. We read the synergy model and hold the building to it; we do not build it. Not interim CFO, not a placement agent, not a banker, not sales execution. We do the part that decides whether the model comes true.

For Becoming One™: a page the board initials at each of three gates — the chart and the team at week four, the cadence and HR made one at week eight, the budget, the synergy register and the hundred-day scorecard at week twelve. For the seat: a page every month — the scorecard, the plan, the seats — and by month three a cadence chaired by the company’s own number two.

No. Flat fee only. Scott invests separately through CLMB Ventures, and the two are deliberately kept apart: a Scalewrights engagement is not a pitch to CLMB, and buying it does not move anyone up his list.

Three references on request: two chief executives and a board chair who were in the room. Not names on a page; a phone call, arranged inside a day. And the Dr. Scott Kimball channel on YouTube, where Scott talks through how companies, and the people inside them, reach their potential.

Yes. Nine books and four playbooks, written for the founders Scott operated beside, carry the same doctrine and are on the books page, sold through Gumroad from $19.