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Working backward is the only way an exit is actually ready.
No company name required. Anonymous by default.
Your target
The plan below adjusts to your readiness and complexity.
Baseline score across owner dependency, financial clarity, transferability, and buyer signal.
Recast financials, normalize add-backs, tighten the P&L a buyer will actually see.
Document processes, elevate a #2, remove personal expenses from the operating story.
Systems, contracts, customer concentration, key-person risk — the parts diligence flags.
Formal valuation, tax structure, net proceeds model, expected deal shape.
Curated buyer outreach under NDA. No public listing.
Letters of intent, term negotiation, structure selection.
Legal, financial, operational diligence. Purchase agreement. Wire.
Instant private PDF: your reverse timeline, urgency flags, and a private action checklist for the phases that matter most.
Confidential · not shared with buyers or third parties
What this tool tells you
Reverse timeline
Phases sequenced backward from your target exit date, scaled to readiness and complexity.
Lead time needed
The runway each phase actually requires — not the ideal, the realistic.
Urgency flag
Phases that no longer fit inside your timeline and need attention before they compress value.
What to do with your result
- Step 01
Read your first read
Every tool returns a private partial result so you can start thinking clearly.
- Step 02
Download your private PDF
Enter your email — the diagnostic downloads instantly. Yours to save, print, or share with your accountant.
- Step 03
Come back when you're ready
No follow-up unless you ask for one. Request a private conversation on your timeline.