EXIT ASSESSMENT
Know what your business is worth. Before someone else decides for you.
Most owners find out what their business is really worth at the worst possible moment — when a buyer, a partner or a health scare forces the question. The Exit Assessment answers it early, while there is still time to change the answer.
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30 minutes. No cost. No pitch.
You have built something valuable. You just cannot prove it.
Buyers do not pay for what you know. They pay for what is documented, defensible and transferable. Most private businesses lose value in diligence, not in negotiation.
The business runs beautifully — because you are in it.
The single biggest discount applied to owner-managed businesses is owner dependence. If it does not work without you, a buyer is not purchasing a business. They are purchasing a job, and pricing it accordingly.
Value is built years before it is realised.
Everything that lifts a multiple — clean numbers, recurring revenue, a spread of customers, a team below you — takes 18 to 36 months to fix. Which means the useful time to look at this is now, not when the offer arrives.
What the Exit Assessment is.
Not a formal valuation. Not a broker’s teaser. A CFO’s read on your business through the eyes of the person most likely to buy it.
We work through eight dimensions of value, using your actual numbers and a structured conversation. At the end you know three things:
Roughly what it would fetch today. An indicative range, based on how businesses like yours actually trade.
How ready it is to sell. A single readiness score out of 100.
Where the value is leaking. The specific dimensions dragging your score down.
The eight pillars.
1. Financial Integrity
Are your numbers clean, timely and defensible? Would they survive diligence without a scramble?
2. Revenue Quality
How much revenue is recurring or contracted — and how much has to be won again next year?
3. Customer Concentration
What happens if your largest customer leaves? Buyers model this before they model growth.
4. Owner Dependence
How much of the operation, the relationships and the decisions still run through you personally?
5. Team & Succession
Is there management depth below the owner, and would that team stay through a transaction?
6. Systems & Process
Is how the business works documented and transferable, or does it live in a handful of heads?
7. Cash Conversion
Does profit turn into cash, and how much working capital does growth actually consume?
8. Risk & Structure
Legal, tax, contractual, IP and shareholding — the issues that surface late and reprice deals.
What you get.
Free — Indicative Score
Indicative valuation range
Overall readiness score out of 100
A short written summary of the two or three biggest value gaps
Paid — Full Pillar Report
Your score on each of the eight pillars, with the reasoning
What each pillar is costing you in valuation terms
A prioritised 24-month plan to move the score
A follow-up session to work through it
A good fit if you
Own a business turning over roughly $1m or more
Are one to three years from wanting a way out — or have never asked the question
Would rather hear the honest version than the flattering one
Not a fit if you
Are already in a live sale process and need a formal valuation
Want a number to justify a decision you have already made
Two questions worth answering upfront.
Is this a sales process for consulting work?
No. The assessment is a fixed piece of work with a defined output. If fixing what it uncovers needs help, I will tell you what kind — and where that help sits, including when it is not me.
What do you need from me?
Two to three years of financial statements and management accounts, plus 30 minutes. Nothing gets shared, and nothing leaves the conversation.
Find out where you actually stand.
No cost, no obligation, and you will know more about your own business at the end of it than you did at the start.
The Exit Assessment produces an indicative range for planning purposes.
It is not a formal valuation, an audit, or investment advice, and should not be relied on as such.