— Engagement

Theincentivepointsoneway:yours.

How we work, what it costs, and who it is for. We are paid for the value we create and the deal we complete, so our interests and yours are the same from the first day to the last.

Success-based

Paid to make the number bigger.

Our reward is tied to the value we create against an independent baseline, not to billable hours. When you do well, we do well; when we fall short, we carry it.

Fee tied to value createdA share of the value we add above the baseline, not a flat bill owed regardless of the result.
Measured against a Stage 1 baselineAn independent valuation on day one fixes the line our fee, and your uplift, are judged against.
No hourly billingNo meter running and no reason to stretch the work. It ends when the value is built and the deal is done.
We carry the downsideFall short of the baseline and that is ours to wear, not another invoice landing on your desk.

One side only

Clean by design.

On any single transaction we represent one side. No upfront marketing spend, no commission taken from the buyer, no fee from both sides of the same deal. Trust is the product.

Seller-side only, per dealOn any single transaction we act for you and no one else, from the first approach to completion.
No commission from buyersWe never take a quiet fee from the other side of your own deal, the way much of the market does.
No upfront marketing spendYour business is approached, not advertised, so there is no listing budget for you to recoup.
Buy-side is a separate mandateWhen we act for an acquirer it is a different client on a different deal, never both sides at once.

Aligned, by design

No large upfront fee. The diagnostic is free, preparation and sale are earned against the value we create, and we only do well when you do.

Exit-Readiness DiagnosticFree
The honest first step. A structured read on where you stand today, scored the way a buyer would, at no cost and no obligation.
Exit PreparationSuccess-based
Tied to an independent baseline set on day one. A modest monthly contribution covers the work; the substance of the fee is a share of the value we add above that baseline, earned as it becomes real.
Sale BrokerageCompletion fee
Seller-side and success-based, tied to the price achieved. No commission from the buyer, no upfront marketing spend, and nothing owed for a deal that does not complete.
Buy-side MandatesRetainer + success
A search retainer plus a success fee on completion, or through equity participation. Always a separate mandate, on a separate deal.

— Valuation estimatorIllustrative · not a valuation

01 — Annual profit (EBITDA) · £750k

£100k£5M+

02 — Sector

Where the base multiple starts

03 — Readiness

How a buyer would price it today

✦Numbers built for the year-endAccounts shaped to satisfy HMRC, not to answer the questions a buyer and their accountants will ask.
✦The business needs you in the roomKey relationships and decisions still run through you, so a buyer is pricing the risk that you leave.
✦Little a buyer can take on trustFew documented systems and no evidence pack, so every claim has to be argued rather than shown.

Indicative valuation · As-is

£2.6M — £3.05M

3.8× profit

As-is, unprepared

£2.83M

Fully prepared

£4.51M

£1.69Mvalue preparation can recover, roughly 37% of the figure

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— Who we work withA deliberate fit

We are a fit if

✓You run a UK business making roughly £500k to £20M.
✓It is established and profitable, not a pre-revenue startup.
✓You are considering an exit, whether that is one year away or five.
✓You are willing to do the work to be worth more, not just to list.

Not yet, if

×You need to sell this month and will not prepare first.
×The business is pre-profit or still finding its model.
×You want one firm to quietly represent both sides of the deal.
×You are testing the market with no real intention to sell.

— Questions owners ask6 answers

Completely, from the first conversation. Nothing is ever listed on a marketplace, nothing is advertised, and no buyer is approached without your explicit say-so. When we do go to market, buyers learn the shape of the opportunity before they ever learn its name, and only a small, qualified handful are approached at all. Your staff, customers, suppliers and competitors find out about a sale when you decide they should, which for most owners is not until the deal is already done.
Preparation typically runs six to twelve months. That is not padding. Real change to your reporting, your reliance on the owner and the durability of your revenue is measured in months of disciplined work, and it has to be done while the business is still being run rather than sold. A brokerage on a business we have already prepared moves much faster, because the evidence and the data room are built before a buyer ever asks. The diagnostic itself takes about three minutes, and it is the right place to find out which timeline you are actually on.
Then you are in the best possible position, because preparation is the one part of the whole process you can still control, and it needs time to count. The owners who achieve the strongest outcomes treat the year or two before a sale as a project in its own right: cleaning the numbers, reducing dependency on themselves, and proving the business can run without them. Starting early is the single biggest lever you have over the final figure. Leaving it to the weeks before a sale is exactly how value gets left on the table.
There is no large upfront fee and no hourly billing. The diagnostic is free. Exit Preparation is success-based, tied to the value we create against an independent baseline set on day one, with only a modest monthly contribution toward the work. Sale Brokerage is a completion fee tied to the price you achieve, with no commission taken from the buyer and nothing owed if the deal does not complete. In every case the structure is deliberate: we do well when you do, and not a moment before.
No honest adviser can guarantee a sale, and you should be wary of anyone who does. What we can do is materially change both the odds and the price: make the business genuinely more valuable, far more sellable, and take it only to buyers with the funding and the intent to complete. Because our fee is tied to the result, our incentive to get you to a clean, well-priced completion is exactly the same as yours. We would rather earn more from a sale worth having than charge you for one that was never going to happen.
Most brokers and corporate finance firms arrive at the point of sale and negotiate from a standing start, defending a business they met only weeks earlier. We arrive much earlier and do the operational work that makes the business worth more before anyone is allowed to look at it, then carry it all the way through to completion with the same hands. And we represent one side only. We never take a fee from the buyer and the seller on the same deal, so when we are in the room, we are unambiguously in your corner.

— Grab it

A business should stand on its own.

Drag the object. It has weight, inertia, and a mind of its own, the way a business should run without you in the room.

Findoutwhatyoursisworth.

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