Provenance Advisory Group
We make owner-run businesses stronger to run and ready to sell: documented operations, clean numbers, and a company that survives a buyer's due diligence — or just a week of your absence.
Buyers walk away — or cut the price — when they find what most owner-run businesses have: processes that live in the owner's head, financials that need explaining, customer concentration nobody measured, and no one who can run the place for a week without phoning the boss. None of that is fixed in the month before a sale. All of it can be fixed in the year before one.
Selling in 1–5 years? We prepare the business to survive buyer scrutiny — and to earn its full multiple.
Not selling — just drowning? Senior operations leadership, a few days a month, without the $120K hire.
Start with the Readiness AssessmentStart with the Readiness Assessment
Every engagement starts with our proprietary Exit Readiness Score: ten dimensions a buyer's due diligence will test — owner dependence, process documentation, financial cleanliness, customer concentration, management depth and more — scored 0–100, with the gaps ranked by what they cost you. Owners tell us it's the first time anyone showed them their business the way a buyer will.
Founded by a former Canada Revenue Agency auditor. Due diligence isn't a mystery to us — it's a discipline we practiced professionally. We prepare your business for scrutiny because scrutiny was the job.
Lean Six Sigma and project management aren't slideware here. SOPs get written, processes get rebuilt, dashboards get installed — by us, with your team, on a schedule.
Your accountant handles tax. Your lawyer handles the agreement. Your broker finds the buyer. We do the part none of them do: make the business itself ready. We complete your advisory team — we don't compete with it.
A business that runs without its owner is worth more to a buyer, and worth more to you every week you own it.
Book a readiness callBook a readiness callSkip the form — you'll reach Kobe directly. No call centre, no script.
Call +1 (204) 399-3054