You See the Problems.
You Just Can't Fix Them.
Your client is exit-minded but not exit-ready. The books are clean yet ops are a mess. You can see it and we can fix it. And we won't step on your toes while doing so.
Schedule a ConversationClean Books Don't Make a Business Sellable
The financials are perfect. Tax strategy is dialed in. But when your client tries to exit, buyers start sweating. They ask questions that have nothing to do with the numbers, and the whole thing falls apart.
It's not the accounting. It's the stuff accounting can't capture. The owner who's involved in every decision. The customer who's 40% of revenue. The "process" that lives in one person's brain and nowhere else. Those are the 8 value drivers that determine sellability, and they rarely land in a spreadsheet.
The Stuff You Notice (But Can't Touch)
40% of revenue from one customer.
Every key relationship is the owner's.
The owner touches every decision, every deal, every fire.
Key people have zero reason to stick around after a sale.
Nothing important is written down. Anywhere.
The business runs on gut instinct, not systems.
The financials tell one story. Operations tell another.
Those are operational problems. They need operational fixes. No amount of financial magic will make them go away.
We Do the Work. You Keep the Relationship.
We Stay in Our Lane
We work on the stuff that makes a business transferable: reducing owner dependency, building management, documenting critical knowledge. We don't do financial advice. We don't do tax strategy. Your client relationship stays exactly where it is.
You Stay in the Loop
Regular updates. No surprises. When the business is ready to sell, you're the advisor who spotted the problem early and brought in the right team to fix it.
When This Makes Sense
Your client is exit-minded but not exit-ready: 3 to 5 years out from wanting to sell, with operational problems that no spreadsheet will fix. Someone mentions selling and you can see the gap between where they are and where they'd need to be.
Here's How It Works
The intro is simple. "I've noticed some operational stuff that needs work before this business is ready to sell. I know a team that specializes in exactly this." From there, we take over. You stay involved as you want.
Referral arrangements available. Everything is transparent.
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