# Succession: secure knowledge before handover | Explicio
https://www.explicio.com/en/areas/succession-ma/
Last updated: 2026-11-02

> Explicio turns knowledge that depends on owners or key people into an asset of the company: it is captured in conversations, linked to documents and stored with its provenance. That way it can be handed over and evidenced in a succession or sale.

# Knowledge transfer in succession and M&A

## What is your company worth if you are no longer in the office tomorrow?

In a business succession or a sale (M&A), nothing pushes the purchase price down harder than the risk that the decisive knowledge about customers, calculations and processes leaves with the owner.
Explicio turns knowledge that depends on owners or key people into an asset of the company: it is captured in conversations, linked to documents and stored with its provenance. That way it can be handed over and evidenced in a succession or sale.
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WHAT EXPLICIO DOES HERE

## Knowledge from everyday work — with source and time.

- ✓ System before person (asset protection): Turns unwritten founder and expert knowledge into a company asset that can be put on the balance sheet.
- ✓ Due-diligence-ready at the push of a button: Processes, supplier rules, contracts and operating figures are logically linked and verifiable.
- ✓ Full data sovereignty in your own operation: No leakage of sensitive trade secrets into American clouds.

CASE STUDIES · ALL INDUSTRIES

## The same situation in different companies.

[Is your business losing knowledge when a driver is unavailable?Critical route and customer knowledge in the automotive trade is often held only in drivers' heads. We show you how to capture it systematically and secure it for succession.Open case →](https://www.explicio.com/en/cases/trade-and-vehicle-repair-succession-ma/) [Is your business losing operational knowledge during succession?Secure tacit route and customer knowledge during business transfers. Prevent the loss of operational details through structured capture.Open case →](https://www.explicio.com/en/cases/manufacturing-succession-ma/)
[All case studies →](https://www.explicio.com/en/solutions/#fallbeispiele?saeule=nachfolge-ma)

WHAT THIS IS ABOUT

## What the manual says — and what it doesn't.

In the manual
- • Annual accounts and contracts
- • Customer and price list
- • Organisation chart
- • Supplier contracts

In no manual
- • why the most important customer really stays
- • which promise was made on a handshake
- • which supplier delivers in a shortage and which doesn't
- • which calculation sits behind the quote

WHAT EXPLICIO DOES NOT DO HERE

## Limits that apply — even when nobody asks.

- ✕ Explicio does not assess people — not even their value to the company.
- ✕ Explicio does not replace due diligence or legal advice.
- ✕ Explicio releases knowledge only to those the customer authorises.
[What Explicio does not evaluate — for works councils and data protection →](https://www.explicio.com/en/works-council/)

TECHNICAL DIAGNOSIS · DEMO WITHOUT A CALL

## Contribute knowledge first. Then decide.

After a short conversation we set up your trial space. Then contribute a voice message or a file from your business — and see where the first knowledge island lies. The 30 days only start after that.
From €99 a month base fee, plus the knowledge brought in — no seats.After the 30 days, everything brought in stays retrievable; new knowledge comes with a plan.
[Request a quote](https://explicio.cloud/registrieren?weg=angebot) [What would it cost us?](https://www.explicio.com/en/pricing/#rechner)

- **Duration**: 30 days from the first knowledge

- **Cost**: €0

- **Licence**: none — you pay for knowledge, not for seats

- **Data location**: EU cloud on hardware operated by Explicio in Germany; Explicio Box in your own building on request