The Exit Timing
Is the value built during the hold legible and defensible to the next buyer?
What it answers
Quality of earnings gets the platform to the table. Quality of operations determines the multiple. The next buyer is another sponsor running the same diligence you run, and the question is whether the value built during the hold shows up in systems a buyer can inspect, or only in the current team's narration. This run of the diagnostic answers that question while there is still time to change the answer.
How it runs
Same instrument, same fixed-fee mechanics as the diagnostic that starts every engagement, pointed backward across the three systems the platform runs on: how the company is run, how it grows organically, how it grows by acquisition.
The output is an exit-legibility read your team can act on: what is defensible as built, what needs documentation, and what needs a targeted build before a process starts.
This is not sell-side prep and not a quality of earnings. It is the operating-side read that determines what those processes find.
When to run it
The window
Twelve to eighteen months before a process starts.
Early enough that what the read finds is still fixable: systems get documented, gaps get closed, targeted builds land before diligence begins. Once the process starts, the window to change the answer is gone.
Who it is for
Any platform where the exit question is live. The strongest version of this run is on platforms I have already built with, where I know the systems and the history. If that is not you, start a conversation anyway and I will tell you honestly whether the diagnostic fits your timeline.
Tell me where the platform is in the hold and when you expect a process. I'll tell you whether the read fits your timeline, and what I'd look at first.
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