Exit Readiness ScorecardIf a buyer looked at your business today, how ready would it appear for sale?
Most owners are focused on running the business day to day, not on how it would stand up to due diligence, buyer scrutiny, or negotiation. This scorecard gives you a fast, honest first view of where your business sits right now.
Free to complete. No exit planning knowledge needed.
An overall score plus a category breakdown
See how a buyer may interpret your business today, with a clear picture of where you look strong and where a buyer may see risk. Grounded in sale readiness, not generic business health.
Most owners have a rough sense of whether their business would stand up to a buyer's scrutiny. Very few have tested it.
This scorecard works through the areas a buyer actually examines: how much the business depends on you, whether your financial information would survive verification, how concentrated your customers are, how well documented the operation is, and whether the ownership structure and records would hold up under due diligence.
Owner dependency
How much runs through you.
Financial verification
Whether the numbers hold up.
Customer concentration
How exposed the revenue is.
Documentation
How the records read under due diligence.
Structure
How the ownership structure holds up.
Five areas that shape buyer confidence
The assessment is quick to complete and easy to understand. It reviews your business across the dimensions a buyer weighs during due diligence, and highlights where they may see strength or risk.
Financial clarity
Whether your numbers are timely, trusted, and clear enough to survive scrutiny.
Systems and technology
How much of the business runs on documented processes and connected systems.
Owner dependency
How well the business would perform if you stepped away from the day to day.
Commercial resilience
The quality of your revenue and how concentrated it is among key customers.
Structure and readiness
How organised your records, agreements, and ownership structure look to a buyer.
Once you know your score, the next step is closing the gap
If your results raised something you had not considered, the sensible next step is a conversation about what it would take to close the gap. That work usually spans reporting, structure and how the business runs without you, and the order you tackle it in matters more than the effort you put in.
Our exit planning service page sets out how we work with owners at each stage. If you would rather read first, our complete guide to business exit planning covers what buyers assess and in what order.
Exit planning service
How we work with owners stage by stage to make a business ready for sale.
Complete guide
What buyers assess during a sale, and the order it makes sense to address it in.
A calm, practical first step for owners planning ahead
Whether you may sell in the coming years or simply want to be prepared, the scorecard gives you a credible, commercially useful view of where your business stands today. It is the starting point for a clearer conversation about what your result means for your specific business.
Free to complete. Your results include an overall score and a full category breakdown.
