The Exit Readiness Assessment
Your business through a buyer's lens.
For every acquiror, each target is evaluated with the same methodology, in order. Each answer determines whether the next one is worth asking. The Exit Readiness Assessment reverses that sequence. Instead of asking whether to invest in the business, the assessment asks how a buyer would evaluate it in the first place. If the answer is no, your work with us will provide the roadmap to get to yes. The free diagnostic is a first pass at the same six lenses; the assessment works through each of them with you.
1
Market Position & Strategy
Is the business in an attractive and sustainable market and is its position gaining momentum?
2
Financial & Operational Quality
Does the financial picture clear the initial screen and is there opportunity for value creation?
3
Scalability & Risk
What is the organic growth potential and can it be accelerated? Does it depend too heavily on the people who built it?
4
Workforce & Culture
Does the organization have the depth and stability to survive what comes after, and the processes to recruit, train, and retain talent?
5
Owner Readiness
Are you ready, financially, operationally, and personally, for what a transaction requires? After close, will leadership lean in or step back?
6
Deal Readiness
Are the legal, contractual, and structural pieces in place to support a credible sale process?
HOW IT WORKS
Engagement, not a report in the mail.
Each lens is rated and reviewed with the founder face to face. The output is a roadmap for the next phase before any formal sale process, ordered by impact on valuation and deal certainty. No business rates strongly across all six lenses. The value is knowing where to focus.
Take the free diagnostic and schedule time with us to review it.
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