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Buyers price what they can verify. We make sure the way your business runs can be read, evidenced and trusted, before the questions start. Exit readiness and operational due diligence preparation for UK owners and management teams.
Why preparation matters
Owners know why the business works. Buyers see only what is documented, evidenced and reconciled, and they now bring specialist operational, data and technology diligence. What they cannot verify, they price as risk: a lower price, a longer earnout, more consideration deferred.
of UK mid-market processes start with the seller's price too high.
Dealsuite, Aug 2026of mid-market sellers received a lower valuation than they expected.
Marriott Harrison / Censuswide, Jul 2026of buyers say mid-market businesses are rarely well prepared for sale.
Marriott Harrison / Censuswide, Jul 2026Read: Half of UK sellers price too high. What buyers see instead →
How we help
We work alongside your corporate finance and legal advisers, to their timetable.
We look at the business as a buyer will: key-person dependency, undocumented judgement, control gaps and numbers that don't reconcile.
We fix what can be fixed, explain what can't, and document the operation so it can be read and priced.
We help populate the data room and answer operational questions consistently, each answer traced to a process, a rule and an owner.
When to start
Baseline the operation, address the big items and keep the documentation current until the process starts.
A readiness review: what a buyer will find, the explanations you need, and the content for the data room.
Consistent, evidenced answers to operational questions, reconciliation of conflicting figures, and support to your advisers.
What you get
What a buyer is likely to find, ranked by impact on value, with a recommended response for each.
Processes, rules, roles, systems and data, documented and connected.
Reported KPIs tied back to source systems, with every difference explained.
Operational answers that stay consistent however many times they are asked.
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Our services
We review the operation as a buyer’s diligence team will, and help you address what we find before the data room opens.
Typically a 3–6 week readiness reviewFind out more →During a transactionThe operational workstream during diligence: evidenced Q&A for sellers, operational diligence of the target for acquirers.
2–4 weeks buy-side · days to weeks sell-sideFind out more →Growth and baselineA structured review of how the business runs today, and a short, ranked plan for what to change.
Typically a 3–6 week reviewFind out more →Related insights
The 23% gap between expectation and offer, and the operational reasons behind it.
Six months, 100 systems in scope: why preparing the transition services agreement against systems and data secures the sale.
Fewer major risks, more small deviations: how operational control has to mature as a business grows.
Start with a short conversation about where the business stands today.