When the handover period ends, the answers stop. Antares uses those first months to get the knowledge out: exit interviews captured on the record, documents and tools flowing into a private company memory, and a cited Advisor your team can ask long after the founder stops picking up the phone.
Net 45 on standard orders. Rush orders are invoiced on delivery — agreed verbally in 2019 and honored since.
You bought the trucks, the shop, and the customer list. The thing that makes them worth the price — how the work actually gets done — is in one person's head. And that person is leaving.
The first list transfers on a bill of sale. The second list drives the earnings — and it walks out the door on the founder's last day. Sellers feel the same thing from the other side: a business that only works with you standing in it isn't transferable.
Antares builds a private memory of the company you bought — from its own documents, tools, and the founder's own words — and puts a cited Advisor on top. Ask in plain language. Get the answer with its source. Or get an honest “that's not in the record.”
Connect the tools the business already runs on and upload the closing set. Ingestion runs continuously — nothing depends on someone remembering to re-upload.
Every answer is grounded in a source you can open — a contract, a transcript, an email thread. When the record doesn't hold the answer, it says so instead of guessing.
A structured interview series with the retiring owner and the people who hold the place together — keyed to what new owners actually ask: quoting, suppliers, customers, people, equipment. Granola sits on the calls, and the transcripts sync straight into the memory.
Ask a question in March, get his October answer — cited to the transcript. And every question the memory can't answer yet becomes next week's interview question, while he's still taking your calls.
The handover period is the one window when the knowledge is still in the building. The install is built around not wasting it.
Connect Google Workspace, Slack, and Granola. Upload the closing set — contracts, leases, SOPs, quote PDFs. Ingestion starts the same day.
The structured series with the founder and key staff, while goodwill is high and memory is fresh. Granola captures every session; transcripts sync in automatically.
You and your managers ask it real questions. Every cited answer is one thing nobody has to interrupt the founder for. Every refusal becomes next week's interview question.
New hires and your GM onboard against the memory instead of shadowing whoever is left. The Advisor becomes where questions go first.
The binder was stale the day it was printed. Antares keeps ingesting — new email, new meetings, new documents — so the memory tracks the business you're running now, not a snapshot from closing week.
Every acquisition already pays for knowledge transfer — a transition-services clause, a consulting period, a binder. Here is what changes when the transfer is captured instead of promised. Select any row to go deeper.
The traditional transfer is a consulting period and a binder. Antares turns the same period into a permanent record: documents, tools, and recorded interviews, all queryable, all cited.
Most purchase agreements buy you months of the seller's time. When it lapses — or the relationship cools — the answers are gone. Transcripts in the memory don't lapse.
Eighteen months in, the founder is fishing and your new estimator needs to know how rush work was priced. That's either an awkward call or a cited answer from interview #4.
A new GM's first ninety days are usually spent extracting tribal knowledge from whoever stayed. Against the memory, they ask the Advisor first and people second.
A handover binder describes closing week. The memory keeps ingesting the live business — new email, new meetings, new documents — so it describes now.
Every answer carries the source it came from, so you can open the contract or the transcript and check. When the record doesn't hold the answer, it refuses instead of guessing.
You spent thirty years building something that works. If it only works because you're standing in it, it isn't transferable — and every buyer who walks the shop can feel that.
Same install, opposite direction: connect the tools, sit for the interviews on your own schedule, and show any buyer a business that answers questions from the record instead of from your memory. The way you do things, written down at last — not walking around in your head. Sellers apply to the same pilot below.
You are handing over the most sensitive record a company has. The posture is built for that — and stated plainly, so your counsel can verify it instead of taking our word.
SOC 2 is a planned path, not a certificate we hold — we say so here because you would find out anyway. The full posture is on the Trust page.
You verify claims for a living, so here are ours, pre-sorted. What's shipped, you can test in a demo. What isn't, we'll tell you to your face.
Until accounting ingestion ships: export the reports you care about as PDFs and upload them — the Advisor cites them like any other document.
We take pilot companies at the pace our install capacity allows — no marketing counter. Tell us about the deal, and we'll tell you honestly whether the product is ready for it.
No — and we won't pretend otherwise. Antares installs after close, in your first hundred days. Before close the data isn't yours and the consent gets murky, so we stay out of it. What we do promise: we're ready to switch on the day you take the keys. Sellers are the exception — it's your own data, start whenever you like.
Not yet. Accounting ingestion is on the roadmap, near the top. Today you export the reports you care about as PDFs and upload them — the Advisor cites them like any other document. A live QuickBooks connection doesn't exist yet, and we won't pretend it does.
Honest answer: Excel parsing and scanned-paper OCR are roadmap, not shipped. Today the system reads digital PDFs and text, plus everything flowing through Google Workspace, Slack, and Granola. The exit interviews carry a surprising share of what the filing cabinets know — and that part works today.
A structured series with the retiring owner and the people who hold the place together. We bring the question set — quoting, suppliers, customers, people, equipment. Granola sits on the calls, and the transcripts sync into the memory automatically. Ask a question in March, get his October answer, cited to the transcript.
The Advisor says so and stops. No guessing. Early on, those refusals are the product: they're your list of what to ask the founder while he's still taking your calls.
Isolated to your company's own tenant, and it never trains anyone's model. AI calls run on your own API key. Ask for an export and you get your memory out; we delete your tenant within 30 days. No hostage clause.
Yes. Same install, opposite direction: connect the tools, sit for the interviews on your own schedule, and list a business that can answer questions without your phone number. Start before you sell — the longer the memory has been running, the more of the business it holds when buyers start asking questions.
We won't claim that. Nobody can prove a multiple, so we don't sell one. What we will claim: your business becomes one that answers questions about how it runs — cited to its own records — without you in the room. What that's worth at the table is between you and the buyer.
Every succession loses something. The machines transfer on a bill of sale. The knowledge transfers only if you capture it — and you have about a hundred days before it stops taking your calls.