Selling someday? Start today.
What's in the Exit Readiness Report.
Valuation
- What the business is worth today, with the models and comparables shown
- Adjusted earnings, normalized and defensible
- Where you sit against real market comparables, not rules of thumb
Value gap analysis
- How much the business depends on you personally, and what that costs
- Customer concentration and contract quality
- Management depth below the owner
- The condition and credibility of your financials
- Where the genius lives, and whether a buyer can see it
- What each gap is likely to cost you, and what closing it is worth
The gap is the money.
Two businesses with identical earnings sell for different numbers. The difference is what a buyer can see, verify, and count on after you’re gone.
Every gap you close before going to market is money you keep. Every gap you leave is money a buyer takes off the table during diligence — and by then you have no leverage left to argue about it.
Ask more than buyers can see, and they walk. Ask less than it’s worth, and you never get it back.
The best time is earlier than you think.
Three to seven years out.
The most valuable window. There's time to fix what's fixable — management depth, customer concentration, the things that take years rather than months.
One to two years out.
Still real leverage. Clean up the financials, document what's in your head, and go to market with the story already built.
Under a year.
Tighter, but worth doing. We prioritize the gaps a buyer will find first, so diligence doesn't cost you the price you already agreed to.
An offer already on the table.
The most urgent version of this work. You're negotiating against a number you can't yet defend.
Talk to SigmaThere isn’t one to choose between. The valuation is part of the Exit Readiness Report. The valuation gives you the number; the value gap analysis tells you why it’s that number and what would move it. They come together because they’re the same work.
No. It tells you where you stand. What you do with that is your call, and plenty of owners do this work years before they sell — or decide not to sell at all.
Once we have your financials, we move quickly — and we walk you through the result rather than sending you a number.
Yes, and they stay involved. Your CPA protects the numbers. Your attorney protects the structure. Neither of them is looking at your business the way a buyer will. That’s our job.
You close the gaps that are worth closing, on your timeline. When you’re ready to go to market, the work is already done and we represent you through the sale.
One fee, paid as the work is delivered. Sigma is paid fairly, and only for work actually completed. Rather than a single payment at closing, your fee is paid in stages along the way. What you pay is part of your fee — never on top of it. And there’s no clock on it: work we do for you today still counts toward your fee whether you sell next year or twenty years from now. Your full fee structure is set out in your engagement proposal.
