Exit Planning · Pathway 01
Most businesses go to market before they're ready. The Value Maximiser is a structured 12–24 month pre-sale engagement where Tradewise embeds into your business to systematically increase its value — before a single buyer is approached.
We fix the gaps that buyers use to negotiate you down: owner dependency, weak financials, informal processes, and customer concentration. By the time we go to market, your business commands a premium multiple — and you have the data to justify it.
Best for: Owners planning to exit in 1–3 years who want to maximise their sale price without giving up equity during the process.
What We Do
Four focus areas that directly impact what a buyer will pay.
SOPs, job management, and operational frameworks that reduce owner dependency and increase buyer confidence.
Clean books, monthly reporting, and profitability tracking that demonstrate a well-run, investable business.
Build the management layer that lets the business run without the owner — the single biggest value driver in any trade business.
We manage the sale process — including information memorandum, buyer negotiations, and due diligence — on your behalf.
The Process
A structured, transparent process from baseline to settlement.
We assess your business — financials, operations, team, systems, and market position — and establish a baseline value.
We identify every factor a buyer would use to negotiate you down and build a prioritised plan to address each one.
Our team integrates into your business and executes the improvement plan — systematically increasing value over 12–24 months.
We prepare your information memorandum, manage buyer outreach, and run the negotiation — so you deal from strength, not desperation.
We coordinate the due diligence process and support your advisers — protecting the agreed price through to settlement.
You exit at the agreed price. Maximum value. No broker commission. Legacy intact.
