HALO™ · Healthcare Asset & Loyalty Outlook Brand Due Diligence Report

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Brand due diligence report.

A redacted sample of a typical HALO™ deliverable for a mid-market PE healthcare services target. All target, sponsor, peer, and quantification detail has been removed for open distribution.

Project

[ Redacted ]

Sponsor

[ Redacted ]

Sector

Healthcare Services

Stage

Pre-LOI › Confirmatory

Delivered

[ Redacted ]

Pages

47 · sample: 7

Confidentiality & Sample Note

This is a historical five-measure example, not a current four-pillar HALO™ scorecard. Its measure scores and 2.6/5 composite are retained as originally presented and must not be read as Heritage, Audience, Loyalty, or Outlook scores. Current HALO™ averages those four pillars and applies an Integration Drag adjustment where relevant. Target name, sponsor name, peer set, dollar quantifications, primary-research quotations, and source attributions have been removed.

Telesto · telestostrategy.com / brand-dd info@telestostrategy.com

HALO™ Brand Due Diligence Report · Redacted SampleExecutive Summary

1.0 Executive Summary

Brand drives material enterprise value in this asset — and current trajectory introduces underwriting risk.

Historical five-measure sample: the scores below have not been recalculated under the current Heritage, Audience, Loyalty, Outlook framework. The current HALO™ score averages those four pillars, adjusted for Integration Drag where applicable.

Historical Composite Score

2.6 / 5

Amber

Brand-driven enterprise value materially exposed; trajectory negative. Intervenable inside the 100-day plan.

Headline Findings

01

Consumer Visibility eroding fastest in the asset's two highest-margin service lines.

Organic search share-of-voice has declined approximately [ redacted ] percentage points across the two service lines that contribute the majority of EBITDA. Two of three named regional peers have closed the gap or overtaken in the last 18 months.

02

Workforce sentiment has flipped negative — lead indicator for clinician retention cost.

Glassdoor composite has declined by [ redacted ] stars in the last 14 months. Negative review velocity exceeds positive review velocity for the first time in the look-back period. Pattern is consistent with a [ redacted ]% increase in clinician acquisition cost over the next 18 months if untreated.

03

Roll-up brand integration risk concentrated in [ redacted ] of [ redacted ] acquired sites.

Brand integration scoring across the acquired site portfolio is bimodal: the originally-acquired sites are well-integrated, but the most recent [ redacted ] acquisitions retain legacy brand identity, separate digital presence, and inconsistent payer-facing collateral. Estimated marketing dyssynergy: [ redacted ] over the first 18 months post-close.

Brand-driven Enterprise Value at Risk

Estimated brand value at stake in this transaction:

$ [ redacted ] M

Quantification methodology: weighted blend of organic-discovery revenue exposure, clinician acquisition cost delta, and roll-up integration dyssynergy. Methodology detail in Appendix A.

HALO™ Brand Due Diligence Report · Historical SampleHistorical Five-Measure Scorecard

2.0 Historical Five-Measure Scorecard

Pillar-by-pillar scoring — with underwriting consequence.

These historical measures were scored 1 (severe) to 5 (best-in-class). They are supporting evidence under the current framework, not renamed four-pillar scores. The original composite remains a historical result; do not compare it directly with a current HALO™ score.

01

Consumer Visibility Index

Search share-of-voice trailing two of three named peers; AI-assistant surface presence near zero in highest-margin service lines.

Underwriting consequence · organic-discovery revenue exposure

Score

2.5 / 5

02

Sentiment Velocity

Negative review velocity exceeds positive for the first time in look-back period; sentiment drift visible 6-12 months ahead of star ratings.

Underwriting consequence · volume / star-rating exposure

Score

2.0 / 5

03

Referrer & Payer Brand Recall

Unprompted recall solid among legacy referrer base; weak among newer referring physicians and within recent payer-network expansions.

Underwriting consequence · net-new referral capture

Score

3.0 / 5

04

Workforce Brand Risk

Glassdoor composite declining; clinician forum NLP surfaces consistent themes around two named operational issues.

Underwriting consequence · clinician acquisition cost

Score

2.5 / 5

05

Roll-up Integration Drag

Bimodal integration: legacy sites well-integrated, recent acquisitions retain separate brand identity and fragmented digital presence.

Underwriting consequence · marketing dyssynergy · first 18mo post-close

Score

3.0 / 5

Historical composite: weighted blend of five legacy measures. Current HALO™ uses the four-pillar average with an Integration Drag adjustment where relevant; this sample has not been rescored.

HALO™ Brand Due Diligence Report · Redacted SamplePillars 1 & 2: Consumer Visibility · Sentiment Velocity

3.0 Pillar Detail

Pillar-level evidence and underwriting translation.

3.1Consumer Visibility Index

Score2.5 / 5

Search share-of-voice trailing two of three named peers; AI-assistant surface presence near zero in the highest-margin service lines.

Organic SoV delta (T-18mo › T)

[ redacted ]

vs. peer-set median: declining

AI-assistant citation share, top service lines

[ redacted ]

two of three peers cited more often

Directory completeness, multi-site footprint

[ redacted ]

recent acquisitions drag composite

Consumer Visibility erosion is concentrated in the two service lines responsible for the majority of EBITDA. AI-assistant surface presence (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini referrals) is near zero in those service lines while two of three named peers appear in the top three citations on standardized buyer-intent prompts. Directory completeness scoring drops sharply across the most recent acquisition cohort.

Underwriting Consequence

Maps to organic-discovery revenue exposure line in the value-at-risk model (Section 4). Quantified in Appendix C.

3.2Sentiment Velocity

Score2.0 / 5

Negative review velocity exceeds positive for the first time in the look-back period — the leading indicator for star-rating decline.

Net review velocity (T-12mo)

[ redacted ]

flipped negative in last quarter

Sentiment drift, condition-specific

[ redacted ]

two themes recur across catchments

Star-rating exposure (T+6-12mo)

[ redacted ]

forecast based on velocity trend

Calibration

Across Telesto's HALO™ reference panel, sentiment velocity flips negative 6-12 months before star ratings move and 9-14 months before volume effects appear in the operating data. The asset is currently inside that window.

HALO™ Brand Due Diligence Report · Redacted SamplePillar 3: Referrer & Payer Brand Recall

3.3Referrer & Payer Brand Recall

Score3.0 / 5

Strong recall in legacy catchments; recall gap among newer referring physicians and recent payer-network expansion markets.

Primary intelligence with referring physicians, case managers, and payer network leads. Tests prompted and unprompted recall, perceived clinical quality, and likelihood-to-refer against two named regional peers.

Recall Metric	vs. Peer A	vs. Peer B	vs. Peer C
Unprompted recall, legacy referrer base	[ redacted ]	[ redacted ]	[ redacted ]
Unprompted recall, newer referring physicians	[ redacted ]	[ redacted ]	[ redacted ]
Perceived clinical-quality rank	[ redacted ]	[ redacted ]	[ redacted ]
Likelihood-to-refer (top-2-box)	[ redacted ]	[ redacted ]	[ redacted ]
Payer-network lead recall, recent expansion markets	[ redacted ]	[ redacted ]	[ redacted ]

n = 47 referrer interviews, 12 payer-network interviews · conducted across 4 catchment markets · sample composition methodology in Appendix D.

Underwriting Consequence

Maps to net-new referral capture compression in the value-at-risk model. The recall gap in expansion markets is the primary driver of the underwriting penalty applied to volume growth assumptions in years 2-5 of the hold.

HALO™ Brand Due Diligence Report · Redacted SamplePillars 4 & 5: Workforce Brand Risk · Roll-up Integration Drag

3.4Workforce Brand Risk

Score2.5 / 5

Glassdoor composite declining; clinician forum NLP surfaces consistent themes around two named operational issues.

Glassdoor delta (T-14mo › T)

[ redacted ]

vs. peer-set median: declining faster

Clinician-forum negative-theme density

[ redacted ]

two recurring themes identified, redacted

Key-role posting fill rate (T-6mo)

[ redacted ]

softening vs. T-12mo baseline

Calibration

A one-letter Glassdoor decline correlates with a 9-14% increase in clinician acquisition cost over the following 18 months across Telesto's HALO™ reference panel. Applied to this asset's clinician headcount and current acquisition-cost run-rate, the implied cost exposure is approximately [ redacted ] annualized at steady state.

3.5Roll-up Integration Drag

Score3.0 / 5

Bimodal integration: legacy sites well-integrated; recent acquisitions retain separate brand identity.

Exhibit 3.5.ASite-level brand integration scorecard

Legacy sites

4.5

4.2

4.0

4.5

4.0

3.8

4.2

4.0

3.8

3.5

Recent acq.

2.5

2.0

2.2

1.8

2.5

2.0

1.5

2.2

1.8

2.0

Originally-acquired sites · well-integrated brand identity

Most recent acquisitions · legacy brand retained

Calibration

Sub-3 brand integration scores typically absorb 8-12% incremental marketing cost over the first 18 months as duplicative collateral, fragmented digital presence, and inconsistent payer-facing messaging compound. For this asset's portfolio, that translates to an estimated [ redacted ] in integration dyssynergy that surfaces in EBITDA QoE only after close.

HALO™ Brand Due Diligence Report · Redacted SampleQuantification & 100-Day Activation Roadmap

4.0 Brand-driven Value at Risk · Quantified

Brand value at stake — reconciled to underwriting line items.

Line Item	HALO™ Pillar(s)	Value at Risk
Organic-discovery revenue exposure (5-year hold)	Pillars 1 & 2	[ redacted ]
Clinician acquisition cost delta (annualized, steady state)	Pillar 4	[ redacted ]
Roll-up brand integration dyssynergy (first 18 months)	Pillar 5	[ redacted ]
Net-new referral capture compression	Pillar 3	[ redacted ]
Total brand-driven enterprise value at risk	Composite	$ [ redacted ] M

Quantification model assumptions, sensitivity ranges, and reconciliation to commercial DD revenue model in Appendix C. Values are point estimates; full report includes low / base / high cases.

5.0 100-Day Brand Activation Roadmap · Post-close

Sequenced post-close interventions to neutralize the brand-driven value at risk identified above. Each item maps to the pillar(s) it addresses and the line item it moves.

Days 1-30

Stabilize sentiment velocity

Operational interventions on the two named themes surfaced in Pillar 4 forum NLP; review-response protocol stood up; clinician communication cadence reset.

Days 31-60

Recover Consumer Visibility in highest-margin service lines

Service-line content build, AI-assistant surface remediation in the [ redacted ] service line, directory completeness audit, and fixes across all sites.

Days 61-100

Brand-integrate the recent acquisition cohort

Phase-1 brand integration of the [ redacted ] most recent acquisitions: digital presence consolidation, payer-facing collateral standardization, signage, and intake-system unification.

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