You have built more value than your business is currently worth.

A thirty minute call. You leave knowing what a buyer in your sector is actually looking for, and where your business stands against it.

Find out what it's worth

For owners of Australian manufacturing and engineering businesses, $5M+ revenue. No pitch on the call.

Most owners spend a decade building a business and end up trapped inside it.

Growing revenue and building value are not the same thing. You can keep growing, year after year. But if it all depends on you being in the day-to-day, it is worth far less than it looks, and if something happens to you it is worth almost nothing.

Real value is built when the business grows and stops needing you to grow it. When the customers stay because of the company. When the decisions get made without you. That is what someone pays a premium for, and it is what you own whether you ever sell or not.

What we cover on the call

01What similar businesses in your sector are worth
02What buyers in your sector are actually looking for
03What already makes your business attractive to them
04What a buyer would be worried about, and what it costs you
05What to do about it, in the order that moves the number most

Who this is for

A fit

Australian manufacturing or engineering, $5M+ revenue
Owner-led, and still central to key accounts or daily decisions
Wanting to grow the business, not to coast
Open to changing how the business runs

Not a fit

Under $5M revenue
Outside manufacturing and engineering, including food and beverage
Owners who want things to stay as they are
Anyone looking for a broker or a sale process

Who you'll be speaking to

I have spent over fifteen years in private equity: pricing businesses before we bought them, then going in and building the value we paid for.

I know what makes a business worth more, and what takes money off the table. The time to fix it is before anyone comes knocking. Once they are at the table, it is too late.

Most of it comes down to one thing: whether the business can keep growing when you are no longer the one growing it.

$500M+invested across private markets

100+portfolio companies

15+ yrsinvesting and operating

What happens

You book a time and send through a high-level revenue and earnings range.
We speak for thirty minutes. We tell you what we see, including the parts you will not enjoy hearing.
If there is something worth doing together, we will say so. If there isn't, we will tell you that too, and you will still leave with a plan.

Questions

I'm not selling. Is this still relevant?

Yes, and most of the owners we work with have no intention of going anywhere. A business built around one person is capped either way. It cannot grow past the hours of the person running it, and it cannot be handed over or stepped away from without losing what makes it work. Fixing that is worth doing whether or not you ever sell.

Are you trying to buy my business?

No. We advise owners, we do not acquire businesses. The buying side is where the experience comes from, not where we sit now.

What do you need from me beforehand?

A high-level revenue and earnings range. Nothing formal, no documents, and no need to be precise.

Is this confidential?

Yes. We do not name clients, publicly or in a pitch, and nothing you tell us goes further.

What does it cost to work together?

The call costs nothing. If we decide to work together, the engagement is built around what your business needs, with clear deliverables agreed up front. We'll give you the numbers once we know what is involved.

Find out what your business looks like to a buyer.

Thirty minutes. Australian manufacturing and engineering owners, $5M+ revenue.

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