Exit Readiness Assessment

Is your business ready to sell?

A confidential, 60-second benchmarking exercise that shows you how your business measures up against the criteria sophisticated buyers apply. Fifteen questions across four categories. Instant, honest results.

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Why This Matters

Buyers see your business differently than you do.

Business owners spend years or decades inside their companies. They know every customer, every product line, every strength — and every weakness they have learned to work around.

Buyers do not have that context. They see a set of numbers, a set of risks, and a set of dependencies. Then they decide whether the business is worth paying for, and how much.

The gap between how an owner sees the business and how a buyer sees it is often the difference between a life-changing outcome and a disappointing one. Closing that gap is the entire work of preparing a business for sale.

Our Exit Readiness Assessment gives you an early, honest read on where that gap exists in your business — before it becomes a problem at the negotiating table.

What We Measure

Four categories, fifteen questions.

Each category represents an area buyers evaluate carefully during due diligence — and where weaknesses translate directly into lower offers, retrade attempts, or failed deals.

01

Owner Readiness

What is prompting you to explore a sale, your timeline, and how aligned all decision-makers are on the outcome. Buyers pay premiums for sellers who know why they are selling.

02

Business Structure

How the business operates day to day, and how dependent it is on you personally. Owner-dependence is the single most common reason acquisition offers come in below expectations.

03

Market Position

How established the business is, the strength of your customer base, and how it compares to competitors. Concentrated customer bases and undifferentiated positioning are red flags for buyers.

04

Financial Stability

A high-level view of profitability, financial clarity, and how closely performance is tracked. Clean, accurate financials are the foundation every credible acquisition offer is built on.

What Happens After

Honest results. No sales pitch.

When you complete the assessment, you receive an instant score across all four categories, along with a plain-language interpretation of where your business is strong — and where it has work to do before a sale would achieve its full potential.

The report is delivered to you directly. There is no obligation, no follow-up sales sequence, and no pressure to engage us.

If you would like to discuss the results in confidence — or explore what a two-to-five-year exit strategy might look like for your business — we are available. Most of our best client relationships begin years before the transaction itself.

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