Looking at closing a deal in the manufacturing space with $12M revenues in the next 2 months. Don't want to take my eye off the ball but already have some questions for this community on next steps:

1) While there's clearly lots to do internally in the first year or two, there are a handful of obvious direct competitors and companies in adjacent spaces that would be attractive tuck in acquisitions. Unsurprisingly, the theoretical inorganic growth value lever is huge but I don't have a good feel of when to make explore making that move. Is it day 1? Day 180? Year 1...2?

2) Clearly approaching competitors can be a risky move as they could try and poach your customers / clients. However, like most search targets, its unclear if these legacy businesses have great exit / retirement plans in place and perhaps would welcome an open discussion. How have others handled this?