Exit readiness

Same scrutiny, different timing

A buyer's diligence team does not soften its questions because a seller happened not to prepare. What changes is only the timing, and timing is everything: catch an issue eighteen months before you go to market and it is an ordinary cleanup task, catch the same issue mid-negotiation and it becomes leverage the buyer uses to move the price down. Exit readiness is that same review, just run on your calendar rather than theirs.

Working through the same list a buyer would

We go through your books exactly as a buyer's advisers would: what normalised EBITDA looks like once the add backs are stripped out, owner compensation held up against a market rate, related party arrangements such as a lease with a property the owner also holds, and any customer or supplier concentration a buyer will flag on sight as risk.

Looking backward several years, not one

A single strong year means little to a buyer weighing multiple years of trend. We build the working capital baseline that a future closing peg will lean on, and call out any year on year inconsistency in how revenue or costs were recognised, because a buyer's team finds that inconsistency whether we point to it first or not.

What you actually get

A ranked list of what actually matters to a buyer and is worth fixing before a sale process starts, versus what is minor enough to leave alone. Twelve to twenty four months of runway covers most trend-based fixes properly, though even a shorter window is worth doing. It shares its method with M&A due diligence support, run here before a deal rather than during one, and it is not a substitute for an M&A adviser running the sale itself. The review is carried out by our team, every finding passed through senior review before it reaches you.