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Whether you sell in one year or ten, the decisions that grow your business are the same ones that set its price. We help you make them early, as founders who’ve sold a business ourselves.
Most advisors handle a slice of your exit. We work with you from the first conversation to the day the money lands.
01 – Plan Your Exit
3–10 years out, or just curious
Your business might be ready to sell. Are you? Clarity on why, when and what comes next.
The 12 things that decide what your business is actually worth, scored, with a plan to fix the gaps.
02 – Grow Value
1-5 years out
Fix what the Dirty Dozen finds. We work through the 12 value drivers with you, starting with the ones that move your price most.
Quarterly support so you’re ready when the right offer turns up, or when life forces your hand.
Buy the capability you’d otherwise spend years building. One client added £8.8m to exit proceeds with a single tuck-in.
Pitch deck reviews and investment readiness, from people who’ve sat on the investor’s side of the table.
03 – Manage Your Exit
0-2 years out
Polish the Business, Find the Buyer, Seal the Deal.
Selling to your team? We advise the founder or the management team, never both.
Passing the business on? Family dynamics are an exit-value risk, and we treat them like one.
Start with a free two-minute pulse check. When you want the detail, the full assessments give you a scored, personalised report.
FREE
Two minutes, an instant score, and where your business needs work first.
The business is one half. This is the other: are you ready to step away?
See how debt, seller notes and earn-outs change your returns, risk and cash needs.
GO DEEPER (Paid)
Your business scored across the 12 things buyers care about.
The business is one half. This is the other.
How ready is your family business to pass on?
Would your numbers survive a buyer’s quality of earnings review?
Raise money in a way that doesn’t cost you at exit.
Not every founder we work with is planning a sale. Some are moving their company here to the UK. We help them land well, and set up from day one the way future investors and buyers will want to find them.
The UK government actively wants innovative founders here. It runs the Global Entrepreneur Programme, which offers mentoring and support to overseas tech companies setting up in the UK, and a dedicated visa for founders, the Innovator Founder visa. Both start with a strong business case. We help you build it, then help with everything around it, from choosing the right city to meeting your first customers.
Once you’ve landed, there’s more support available than most founders realise: R&D tax relief, innovation grants, angel and venture investors, joint research with world-class universities, and tax incentives in freeports and investment zones. It’s generous, but it’s spread across many different organisations, and some of it depends on where in the UK you base yourself. Knowing which options apply to you, and in what order, is where we come in.
39%
of Europe’s venture capital went to UK companies in H1 2026.
Source: Dealroom / HSBC Innovation Banking
The right route into the UK, a business case for government programmes that stands up, and company set-up, all coordinated so nothing falls through the gaps.
Where in the UK your kind of company thrives, from Cambridge to Manchester, and who to meet there.
Customers, partners and funding to grow, and the structure, IP and equity decisions a future buyer will check first. Growth and exit value, built together.
Our own sale started with a call we weren’t expecting. We had no data room and more gaps than we’d like to admit. We got the deal done, and learned the hard way what we should have prepared years earlier.
Peter, Chris and John founded Exitologists after selling Evoco Digital Services to Version 1. Between us, we’ve also sat on the buy side, in private equity and M&A integration. So we know what buyers look for, and what makes them walk away.
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