IsellbusinessesthewayI'dwantminesold.
ClyOps exists because the people who fix businesses for sale almost never understand what it is like to build one. I do.
Most advisers learn a business from the outside, in the weeks before a sale, and defend it as best they can. ClyOps works the other way. We go inside, do the operational work that makes a company genuinely worth more, and produce the evidence a buyer needs to pay a premium.
It is a deliberate alignment. We are paid against the value we create, not by the hour, and on any single transaction we represent one side only, never taking a fee from buyer and seller at once. Trust is the product, and we will not trade it for a second fee.
AI lets a small, senior team do the depth of work that used to need a large one: mapping process, cleaning reporting, documenting what lives in your head. The judgement stays with people. The leverage makes it affordable for an SME, not just a corporate.
We would rather earn more by making your sale worth more than charge you regardless of the result. When you do well, we do well. When we fall short, we carry it.
- 01Exit-readiness diagnostic
- 02Process mapping
- 03Data & financial audit
- 04Systems review
- 05Owner-dependency assessment
- 06Baseline valuation
- 07AI-led implementation
- 08Reporting to audit standard
- 09Confidential market approach
- 10Curated buyer book
- 11Information memorandum
- 12Data room management
- 13Diligence oversight
- 14Structuring & negotiation
- 15Completion & handover
- 16Buy-side mandates
I'm not a career consultant, and I've never worked at a Big Four firm. I'm an SME operator who has built, run and sold real businesses.
Across those businesses I learned the same lesson every time: a company is worth what a buyer can trust, not what its owner believes it is worth. The gap between the two is enormous, and it is almost always made of things that could have been fixed with time, if someone had started early enough.
I started ClyOps to close that gap from the inside. Not to advise from a distance, but to do the operational work I have done in my own companies, and to be paid the way an owner would want their adviser paid: on the result, on one side of the table, with the truth told plainly even when it is not what you hoped to hear.