Exit Readiness Sprint
Ninety days, before the market sees anything.
Most businesses in this size range are not ready to sell on the day the owner decides to sell. That's not a criticism. It's a description of what happens when a company is run for cash flow and taxes for two decades rather than for a buyer's diligence file.
The Sprint fixes what can be fixed in a quarter, and tells you honestly about what can't.
What we do
The financials
Three years plus interim, recast to a defensible adjusted earnings figure. Not a spreadsheet of what you'd like the number to be. A figure that survives a buyer's quality-of-earnings review, because we run that review against you first.
The add-backs
Every add-back traced to individual transactions in the general ledger. This is the difference between a schedule a buyer accepts and one a buyer discounts. It's tedious, it's the highest-return work in the engagement, and almost nobody does it before going to market.
Owner dependency
We identify what happens in the business only because you're in the building, and we move as much of it as possible into documented process, delegated authority, or software. Buyers price this directly. It shows up as an earnout, a longer transition period, or a discount.
Margin and systems
Where automation improves the operating numbers inside ninety days, we build it. Where it's a two-year project, we say so and leave it out.
What you get
A recast financial package with a documented add-back schedule. A written value-creation roadmap ranked by what a buyer will actually pay for. A readiness assessment, in writing, including the case against going to market if that's what the work shows. And whatever systems we built along the way, which are yours whether or not you sell.
What it costs
A fixed fee, quoted at the outset, credited in full against the success fee if we take the business to market within twelve months.
To an owner who intends to sell, that makes the preparation close to free. That's deliberate. The Sprint exists to make the sale work.
When the work goes further
Some businesses want more than ninety days of automation work: a rebuilt quoting process, a customer system that survives the founder's retirement, operations that need a year rather than a quarter. That work is delivered by CustomerRocket.ai, quoted separately, and it isn't a prerequisite for anything here.
What happens after
Some Sprint clients sign an engagement and go to market. Some learn they're two years out and use the roadmap to get there. Some find out the business is worth more than they thought and decide not to sell at all.
We don't push. A seller who isn't ready produces a failed process, and a failed process is worse for you than waiting.
The first conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
Most owners who call are eighteen months out and not sure they're ready to say so out loud. That's the right time to call.
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