The value is built years before the sale, not staged the month before. We close the gap between what your business earns and what a buyer will pay, on purpose, quarter by quarter, so when you are ready, you are ready. On your terms and your timeline.
Two businesses can earn the same profit and sell for very different prices. A business that runs through the owner tends to trade nearer 3 to 4 times profit. A lower-risk, buyer-ready one commonly trades at 5 to 6 times, sometimes more. The difference is not the profit. It is the risk a buyer sees.
We score your business on the same five dimensions a buyer uses to set the price, from Quarry to Capstone. Then we fix the binding constraint first, the one weak link holding the value down, not the strengths you already have.
Are the numbers real, clean, and provable?
Does it run without you?
Who is in the seats besides you?
Will the numbers hold and grow?
Ready for the buyer’s deep look?
Owner-dependency is the single most-cited reason a business sells for less, or does not sell at all. It is also the most fixable, and it is a two-year project, not a pre-sale cleanup, because buyers want independence proven by time. The test is simple: genuinely step away for a few weeks. What breaks is your punch list, and it is far better to find it on your schedule than a buyer’s.
Ready businesses get bought on the owner’s terms. Unready ones get sold on the buyer’s, late in the deal, when you have the least leverage. Readiness puts you in the stronger seat.
A clean, low-risk business draws more buyers to the table. More buyers means you get to choose the one who will carry on what you built, not just the highest bidder.
You decide the timeline and the role. And we hand the wealth and life questions, the what-do-I-do-after, to your advisor. We ready the business; you write the next chapter.
Most owners start with a fixed-fee Sell-Side Readiness Review: a buyer’s-eye read and a punch list, yours to keep. From there, the exit-readiness partnership is the embedded CFO and operating partner work that actually closes the gap, over the years before you sell. Start before it stops being fun. The earlier we start, the more we can move; if you are closer to the finish line, we triage what matters most.
Not every owner gets years of runway. Health, a partner change, or a buyer already at the table can put the timeline in months, not years. If that is you, we skip the lecture about starting earlier and go straight to what protects the price now: a fast Sell-Side Readiness Review or a Red-Flag pass that finds what a buyer would flag, so you can fix or explain it before it costs you at the table. Turnaround is weeks, not months.
See where your business stands in about ten minutes, or book a straight conversation with both partners.