You priced the backlog. You didn’t price the people.
Every acquisition assumes the workforce will stay, perform, and scale. Workforce Due Diligence™ helps verify those assumptions before the deal closes.
Before committing capital to an acquisition.
The workforce questions worth answering before close.
See the workforce risks, hiring challenges, and retention concerns that could affect the value of the deal.
The backlog is deliverable, but ~40% of execution value sits with four operators and comp is underpriced against the live market. Condition the deal on retention packages and a succession plan — or reprice.
We test whether the target’s people can carry the thesis you’re paying for — scored across six exposure categories on the WEI™ framework.
Whether PM and field-leadership depth can carry active and awarded work without compressing margin on existing backlog.
Where value concentrates in a few operators — and what a single post-close departure does to the backlog.
Base and total comp in the scarcest roles, benchmarked against live hiring data — not the target’s internal bands.
Bench readiness behind senior operators, and the realistic cost and timeline to replace them.
Scarcity, competitor hiring activity, and trade-specific shortages across the target’s operating markets.
Whether the headcount the growth plan requires is supportable locally — or depends on undefined importation.
Six intelligence components, delivered as one executive briefing — resolved into a single verdict your deal team can act on for price, structure, retention, and integration.
- Six-category WEI™ exposure scoring on the target’s workforce
- Role-family scarcity and key-person dependency map
- Succession-fragility read across the leadership bench
- Compensation gap analysis against the live market
- A single diligence verdict — Proceed / Proceed with Conditions / Renegotiate / Walk Away
- Executive briefing delivered before your diligence window closes
When construction leaders engage.
- Acquiring a contractor — platform or bolt-on
- Entering a new market
- Opening a regional office
- Pursuing a major project award
- Validating workforce risk before an investment
Program 02 of 4. Workforce Due Diligence™ is one of AlphaHire’s four core engagements — the pre-close workforce read for acquirers.
See all four offerings →Request Workforce Due Diligence.
Tell us about the target — its backlog, operating markets, and the thesis you’re underwriting. We’ll scope a workforce diligence engagement around the deal’s specific post-close execution risk.
Or email directly: briefings@alpha-hire.com
Decisions we help construction executives make
- Should we expand into Phoenix?
- Are we entering a compensation escalation cycle?
- Can we support another major project award?
- Is our leadership team exposed to retention risk?
- Where is competitor hiring accelerating?