Free Assessment: Business Exit Readiness Assessment
Is Your Company Really Ready to Sell?
Rate how ready your company is to run, and sell, without you at the center. Twenty-four quick statements, about ten minutes, and an instant read on the value drivers a buyer will scrutinize. No email needed to see your scores.
- Statements
- 24 short statements across six drivers, mixed rather than grouped on purpose, so each one gets answered on its own.
- Time
- About ten minutes. Each statement is scored from zero to ten, and your results appear the moment you finish.
- Scoring
- Each of the six drivers totals its four statements, so it scores out of 40. The total runs to 240.
- The Report
- A written report on request, read personally, with the priorities to focus on and a 90-day plan.
How Does Your Company Measure Up to a Buyer?
Answer based on your company as it is today, not as you wish it were or as it was six months ago. Score the business the way a buyer would, on what is documented and verifiable rather than on what you know to be true. If you are torn between two scores, take the lower one. The gap you are hedging about is the one diligence will find.
How to score 0 means not true at all. 10 means completely true.
01We have clear owners for our key cross-departmental processes and procedures
02We have a sales system that allows us to generate new business consistently
03We have a clear financial forecast and operational roadmap for the next 12 quarters
04Our key processes have standards and performance metrics that we measure and review
05I can take a two-week 100% unplugged vacation, and my company will still run well
06Everyone in the company knows and understands our core values and what they mean
07No more than 30% of our total revenues come from the same industry segment
08We have a culture of continuous improvement and invest in learning and development
09Our sales system has a clear set of stages that supports the customer's buying process
10We have a clear, differentiated strategy and a long-term roadmap for implementation
11We regularly hold process improvement meetings and retrospectives and capture action items
12Everyone on the leadership team has at least one internal person who could replace them
13We have a proven system for prospecting, engaging, and nurturing new qualified leads
14No one client makes up more than 20% of our total revenues on a quarterly basis
15All key teams hold a daily huddle to review commitments and obstacles
16We have an executive dashboard for our leadership team with key metrics that we look at daily
17We regularly review role performance and culture fit and maximize our number of A players
18We have an effective hiring system that assesses both technical skills and cultural fit
19All of our critical processes have performance metrics that we review regularly
20We have a system for setting quarterly priorities for leadership, management, and teams
21All of our key teams meet regularly to review quarterly goals and weekly commitments
22Everyone in the company has a role scorecard with key performance success metrics
23All of our key processes are documented in SOPs that are used consistently and updated
24We have a clear positioning in our market based on our core customers and key competitors
Where Your Company Stands.
Once you finish, your scores appear here across the drivers of enterprise value, so you can see which ones lift your price and which a buyer would flag. It is a snapshot of where your company stands today. For what is driving the scores, request the full report below.
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Your scores show where the gaps are. The full report covers what is driving them, personalized to your answers: a detailed analysis of all six drivers, your current strengths and weaknesses, the key priorities to focus on, and a 90-day implementation plan. When the scores show what a buyer will discount, VALUE10X is the program that closes the gaps.
Send Me the Full Report
Add your name and email, and the full report on your scores arrives by email. Your scores are sent with the request, so there is nothing else to fill in.
Every assessment is read personally, so the report takes a few days rather than arriving instantly.
Questions Founders Ask About the Business Exit Readiness Assessment.
Straight answers on what the assessment measures, how the scoring works, and what to do with the results once the scores are in.
What does the Business Exit Readiness Assessment measure?
It measures how ready the company is to run, and sell, without the founder at the center. The 24 statements cover the six drivers of transferable value a buyer examines in diligence: processes, KPIs and forecasts, sales and marketing, people and clients, planning systems, and values and culture. Low scores point to the things a buyer would discount from the price.
How long does the assessment take?
About ten minutes. There are 24 short statements, mixed rather than grouped by driver, and the scores appear the moment the last one is answered. No email is needed to see them. Answer based on the company as it is today, the way a buyer would see it, on what is documented and verifiable rather than on what you know to be true.
How is the assessment scored?
Each statement is rated from 0 to 10, where 0 means not true at all and 10 means completely true. The four statements in each driver add up to a score out of 40, read in bands of 8 from weak to strong, and the six drivers add up to a total out of 240. The pattern across the six matters more than the total, because the lowest driver is usually the one to work on first.
What is in the full report, and is it free?
Yes, the full report is free. It is a written analysis, read personally and personalized to your answers, covering all six drivers, the current strengths and weaknesses, the priorities to focus on, and a 90-day implementation plan. Request it with a name and email after scoring. Because every report is read by a person, it takes a few days rather than arriving instantly.
How is this different from the Founder Exit Readiness Assessment?
This assessment scores the company. The Founder Exit Readiness Assessment scores the founder: finances, motivation, family, identity, and what comes next. A sale needs both. A company that is ready to sell with an owner who is not tends to stall late in the process, so most founders planning an exit take both and compare the results.
What should I do with my results?
Start with the lowest-scoring driver, since that is where a buyer is most likely to push the price down. When the scores show real gaps, VALUE10X is the program that builds business valuation and closes them before a sale. A strategy call is the place to talk through the results and the timeline, and Prepare Your Exit covers the full exit planning picture.