Exit Readiness

Get your business ready for its most important transaction.

We help owners strengthen enterprise transferability, protect enterprise value, and improve buyer confidence, independently and confidentially.

A structured starting point

The Exit Readiness™ Diagnostic

A confidential buyer-lens assessment designed to help owners understand how institutional buyers are likely to evaluate the enterprise.

  • Written report
  • Risk heat map
  • Readiness roadmap

Six dimensions buyers evaluate

Enterprise Independence

How well the business runs without the owner.

Revenue Durability

How predictable and diversified revenue is.

Operational Institutionalization

Whether processes and systems are documented and repeatable.

Financial Quality

The reliability of reporting and normalized earnings.

Transaction Preparedness

Readiness for diligence, data requests, and a process.

Transferability

How readily the enterprise can pass to a new owner.

Many transaction outcomes are shaped long before a process begins.

Confidential diagnostic

We assess the business across the six dimensions.

Findings and heat map

A clear view of where buyers are likely to see risk.

Readiness roadmap

Prioritized steps to strengthen transferability.

Close the gaps

Act on the roadmap, so buyers see strength instead of risk.

When it’s time to sell

Sell-side

For owners preparing to sell all or part of the business.

  • Transaction planning and positioning
  • Preparing financials and data for diligence
  • Owner-side support through the process to close

Acquiring a business?

Buy-side work, from target evaluation to integration, is part of our Value Creation service.

Thinking about how a buyer would view your business?