Business exit tools that answer the questions every Main Street owner has.
Before you talk to a broker, you have questions no broker will answer without a pitch attached. What's my business really worth? Who would buy it? Can I even sell? How much will I actually walk away with? These tools answer those questions with real Main Street benchmark data.
Every tool runs on the same valuation and readiness engines that power our advisor matching — so the number you see here is the number your broker will validate, not a marketing estimate that gets walked back on the first call.
Every tool
Four decisions, four tools.
Each tool is designed for a specific decision an owner faces as they think about an exit. Run one, run all four — the results carry through to your matched broker so you're not starting from a blank page.
Readiness scorecard
Business Sellability Score
Answers: “Can I sell my business? What's dragging my score down?”
Five-factor readiness scorecard — financials, management depth, customer concentration, legal structure, owner dependence. Each factor scored 0–20 with the specific gaps that would cost you at diligence, ranked by dollar upside if closed.
- 5 diagnostic dimensions, 100-point total
- Named improvement actions with estimated multiple lift
- Same engine that powers the full exit assessment
Buyer pool discovery
Who Would Buy My Business?
Answers: “Who buys HVAC companies? What buyer types match my size?”
Segmented view of the active acquirer pool for your industry — PE platforms, strategics, franchise systems, consolidators, and search funds — with named examples pulled from our canonical buyer registry (82 real firms).
- 82 canonical buyers across 13 home-services industries
- Grouped by acquirer type with recent-activity notes
- Cross-linked to individual /buyers/[slug] profiles
Cash-at-close waterfall
Net Proceeds Calculator
Answers: “How much will I actually walk away with?”
Waterfall from headline sale price to net cash in your account. Deducts broker fee, legal + accounting, outstanding debt, capital-gains tax, earnout holdback, and escrow so you can see the number that actually matters — what hits your bank at close.
- Line-by-line deductions with reasonable defaults
- State + federal capital-gains estimate
- Earnout + escrow hold-back modeling
Instant valuation
Business Value Estimate
Answers: “What is my business worth right now?”
Industry-specific valuation using real Main Street benchmark data. Enter revenue, SDE, and the KPIs that matter most in your category to get a range with confidence.
- Per-industry multiples calibrated to Main Street deal data
- Percentile benchmarking against real peer P25/P50/P75/P90 ranges
- Baseline multiples pulled from IBBA + BizBuySell + PeerComps
How it fits together
From a first question to a matched broker.
Most owners visit these tools out of order — and that's fine. Each one is self-contained. But run in sequence, they compress what usually takes months of broker conversations into ten minutes of interactive answers.
- 1
Score your readiness
Run the sellability score first. It tells you whether now is a good time to go to market, and what to fix if it isn't.
- 2
See the buyer pool
Discover which acquirer types match your industry + size. A very different signal than a listing directory.
- 3
Get a real valuation
Industry-specific benchmarks. Ranges — not a single number — so you can size the deal against real peer data.
- 4
Model your net proceeds
Deduct broker fees, taxes, debt, earnouts, and escrow to see what actually lands in your account.
Who these are for
Built for the questions no directory can answer.
Most search results for “sell my business” drop you into a broker directory or a marketing page. Neither answers the question you actually asked. These tools do.
They're designed for Main Street owners with $500K–$10M revenue businesses — the segment where instinct decisions are usually correct on direction and wrong on timing, price, and buyer selection. The tools narrow the gap between the instinct and the numbers.
If you're above $10M in revenue, the same tools apply — but the deal complexity favors talking directly to an M&A advisor. Use the tools as your prep, then get matched to a broker who knows your category.
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