Assess whether management can run this without the founder (995b5b)

SITUATION Integration-risk PMO received earnout metric definitions that invite dispute after a customer who just sent a non-renewal in a PE platform evaluating a founder-led SaaS add-on. Proceed or Reprice must follow from that extract if the file can settle whether management can run this without the founder.

DECISION Integration-risk PMO in a PE platform evaluating a founder-led SaaS add-on must choose Proceed / Reprice / Walk / Hold using earnout metric definitions that invite dispute after a customer who just sent a non-renewal.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. A customer who just sent a non-renewal is noise around an already-controlled People and Contracts process in a PE platform evaluating a founder-led SaaS add-on, given earnout metric definitions that invite dispute. 2. A customer who just sent a non-renewal is the event in earnout metric definitions that invite dispute that forces Proceed for integration-risk PMO under M&A Due Diligence. 3. Earnout metric definitions that invite dispute shows a one-file miss after a customer who just sent a non-renewal, not a People and Contracts program failure. 4. Earnout metric definitions that invite dispute cannot decide management can run this yet after a customer who just sent a non-renewal; hold is the only M&A Due Diligence close a PE platform evaluating a founder-led SaaS add-on can defend.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Separate a one-off add-back from a recurring earnings issue in earnout metric definitions that invite dispute. 2. Map reps, earnout mechanics, and integration risk a PE platform evaluating a founder-led SaaS add-on would inherit. 3. Tie quality-of-earnings, working-capital, and contingent items in earnout metric definitions that invite dispute to management can run this. 4. For this M&A Due Diligence People and Contracts file, read earnout metric definitions that invite dispute against a customer who just sent a non-renewal and write the one fact that would move management can run this for integration-risk PMO.

RECOMMENDATION Choose Proceed / Reprice / Walk / Hold on this M&A Due Diligence / People and Contracts packet (earnout metric definitions that invite dispute after a customer who just sent a non-renewal). The follow-on People and Contracts action is what integration-risk PMO does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line M&A Due Diligence option on management can run this, then the evidence in earnout metric definitions that invite dispute, then the action for integration-risk PMO - Hypothesis scorecard against earnout metric definitions that invite dispute: supported / rejected / untestable - Owner and next date for integration-risk PMO in a PE platform evaluating a founder-led SaaS add-on - What changes management can run this if a customer who just sent a non-renewal is later withdrawn