The Elite Business Exit Readiness Assessment™ scores your business across six dimensions that determine what buyers will actually pay — and shows you precisely what to fix before going to market. Built for privately held business owners planning a $1M–$50M exit.
Take the Free Assessment → Under 15 minutes. Confidential. Completely free. No obligation.Most business owners go to market not knowing which specific factors are suppressing their valuation. This exit readiness assessment changes that. You leave with a score, a tier, and a ranked list of the gaps costing you the most money.
A percentage score from 0 to 100 across all six dimensions, weighted by their impact on buyer valuations.
From Tier 1 Market Ready to Tier 5 Not Ready — with a clear explanation of what your tier means for timing and price.
Individual scores for Financial Readiness, Customer Diversification, Operational Independence, and Personal Readiness.
For each gap identified, you see the estimated dollar impact — so you know which problems are worth solving before going to market.
A ranked list of the two or three changes that will move your score — and your price — the most in the shortest time.
Based on your answers, you receive a realistic estimate of how long it will take to reach exit readiness and what that path looks like.
Buyers do not price businesses on revenue alone. They price on transferability, predictability, and risk. These six dimensions capture exactly what sophisticated acquirers evaluate during business sale due diligence.
Quality of financials, accounting method, speed of close, and EBITDA integrity. Drives 60-70% of your exit multiple.
Revenue distribution across your customer base. A single customer above 15% of revenue can discount your valuation by 20-40%.
Whether your business runs without you. Owner dependency is the most common reason deals fall apart at the letter of intent stage — regardless of industry or location.
Recurring vs. transactional revenue, contract depth, and churn rates. Buyers pay 2-3x more for predictable, contracted revenue streams.
Historical growth rate, pipeline visibility, and market positioning. Buyers underwrite your future, not just your past three years.
Emotional readiness, exit timeline clarity, and post-sale plan. The most overlooked dimension — and the one that kills the most deals.
This is not a feel-good quiz. It is a practitioner-grade framework used by licensed M&A advisors to evaluate business exit readiness. Designed for owners who want honest answers, not comfortable ones.
These are not hypothetical numbers. They reflect the real difference between businesses that go to market prepared and those that do not. The assessment identifies which side of each gap your business currently sits on.
The assessment is free. The advisor review is included. The only cost is under 15 minutes of honest answers about your business.
Take the Free Assessment → Confidential. No obligation. Advisor follow-up within 24 hours.Work through 18 questions across the six dimensions. Each question includes a plain-English explanation of what it measures and why buyers care about it. Your progress saves automatically so you can pause and return.
The moment you submit, your score calculates automatically. You see your overall percentage, your tier from 1 through 5, and individual section scores broken down by dimension — immediately, with no waiting.
A licensed SunBridge M&A advisor — not a junior analyst, not a chatbot — reviews your full submission against current Florida market data and prepares a personalized readiness report and estimated valuation range.
We walk through your results together. You receive your estimated valuation range, a ranked list of priority action items, and a realistic timeline for reaching exit readiness. No retainer. No commitment. Just clarity.
"I had been thinking about selling for two years but had no idea where to start or what my business was actually worth. The assessment showed me in under 15 minutes that I had two specific problems — customer concentration and no management layer below me — that were going to cost me millions at closing. I spent six months fixing both before going to market. We closed above the top of the range we had originally discussed."
— Business owner, Professional Services, South Florida — sold for $4.1M18 questions across six dimensions. Under 15 minutes to complete. Your progress saves automatically so you can pause and return at any time without losing your answers. Most business owners complete it in a single sitting.
Completely free. No credit card, no trial period, no hidden fees. A licensed SunBridge M&A advisor reviews your results and follows up within 24 hours — that advisor review is also included at no cost and no obligation.
Six dimensions: Financial Readiness, Customer Concentration, Operational Independence, Revenue Quality, Growth Trajectory, and Personal Readiness. These are the exact factors sophisticated buyers evaluate during due diligence — not a generic online quiz.
Any owner of a privately held business with $1M to $50M in enterprise value who is considering selling their business in the next one to five years — or who simply wants to know what their business is worth and what is suppressing its value right now.
Tier 1 (90-100%) means your business is market-ready and positioned to attract premium buyers immediately. Tier 2 (80-89%) means you are close with minor gaps to address before going to market. Tier 3 (70-79%) indicates moderate readiness with specific improvements that could add hundreds of thousands to your sale price. Tiers 4 and 5 indicate the business needs focused preparation before a sale process begins — but the gaps are fixable with the right plan.
Start with an honest assessment of where your business stands across the six dimensions buyers evaluate: financial quality, customer concentration, operational independence, revenue predictability, growth trajectory, and owner readiness. Address the highest-impact gaps first — typically owner dependency and financial statement quality. Work with a licensed sell-side M&A advisor who can help you sequence the preparation correctly and avoid going to market before you are ready.
You receive an instant readiness score and tier rating the moment you submit. A licensed SunBridge M&A advisor then reviews your full submission within 24 hours and follows up with a personalized report, estimated valuation range, and a ranked list of the two or three priority action items that will move your score and your price the most.
Our complete sell-side advisory process for Florida privately held businesses $1M–$50M.
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Get the report →The assessment takes under 15 minutes. The insights it provides last through every decision you make between now and closing day.
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