Exit-Readiness
A 6–12 month implementation engagement that turns an owner-run business into one a buyer can verify, trust — and pay full multiple for.
Everything we fix is something a buyer's due-diligence team will test. Your Readiness Assessment ranks the ten dimensions by dollar impact — then the engagement works the list, highest-value first.
The single biggest discount in private-company sales. We move what lives in your head into systems: decision authorities, price books, key relationships shared, a second-in-command who actually decides.
SOPs for the processes that matter — quoting, fulfillment, invoicing, hiring — written with your team so they're used, not shelved. Lean-built: short, visual, owned.
Job costing that stands up, revenue by customer and product, margins a buyer can reconcile in an afternoon. Prepared by someone who spent years on the government side of scrutiny.
Contracts, leases, permits, HR files, financials, KPIs — organized before anyone asks. When the letter of intent arrives, you answer diligence in days, not months. Speed protects price.
A five-number dashboard tracks readiness gains and, usually, EBITDA gains — because the same fixes that make a business sellable make it more profitable to keep.
Two to three years before you want to transact is ideal; one year is workable; the month you receive an offer is too late for most value-building moves. The earlier the start, the more of the gap between asking and offer you can close.
No — and that's deliberate. Formal valuations belong with a Chartered Business Valuator and the sale itself with a broker or M&A advisor. We prepare the business they'll sell. That independence is why brokers and accountants refer us.
The Readiness Assessment is a fixed fee; full engagements are fixed-scope and quoted from your assessment — typically in the range of a mid-five-figure project spread over months, sized to the business. Every engagement starts small before it starts big.
Clean books are one dimension of ten. Most owner-run businesses pass the bookkeeping test and fail the operations test: undocumented processes, owner dependence, concentration. The Score tells you in two weeks.
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