Financial evidence
Reconciliations, management reporting, and the records behind the operating story.
Exit Readiness
Be ready before a buyer starts testing the story.
Prepare the financial evidence, operating story, and records that a buyer process is likely to test.
Discuss Exit ReadinessA strong business can still lose time and credibility when revenue definitions shift, obligations are scattered, or too much operating knowledge lives with the founder. Exit readiness turns that knowledge into clear evidence before the questions arrive.
Signals
This work is relevant when...
- 01Management reports and commercial claims use different definitions.
- 02Important customer, product, or supplier obligations are hard to trace.
- 03Key decisions and operating knowledge depend on the founder.
- 04The data room exists as folders rather than a coherent evidence trail.
- 05Buyer questions would trigger a last-minute evidence hunt.
The review
What we look at together.
Revenue and metric definitions
Consistent definitions for recurring revenue, retention, customers, and growth.
Obligations
Commercial terms, commitments, support promises, and change-of-control points.
Founder dependency
Decisions, relationships, and processes that still rely on personal knowledge.
Data-room preparation
A navigable evidence structure with clear ownership and version discipline.
Buyer-question readiness
A practical map of likely questions, available support, and unresolved gaps.
Working method
Focused work with a clear line from question to action.
- 01Clarify
Define the likely outcome, timing, and evidence standard.
- 02Review
Trace the numbers, definitions, obligations, and operating dependencies.
- 03Prioritise
Separate credibility gaps from work that can wait.
- 04Prepare
Build a practical evidence plan and a cleaner question-response rhythm.
Start here
Buyer-question readiness map
For each likely question, record the answer owner, supporting evidence, current gap, and the next action. The result is a working preparation plan rather than a document dump.
Open the framework- 01
What claim is being tested?
- 02
Which record supports it?
- 03
Who can explain it without the founder?
Let’s discuss what readiness means for your business.
A 30-minute coffee chat is enough to clarify the immediate question and decide whether a private next step would be useful.