We get founder-led businesses ready to scale past the founder and sell to private equity on premium terms. Two ways in: 1:1 advisory through our APEX method, and the Virtual C-Suite, a senior team that takes ownership of the work. We’re not consultants handing over a deck; we’re entrepreneurs who’ve built and exited companies ourselves.
Founders of businesses turning over roughly £5–20m, profitable, but still running through you. If you’re a startup chasing funding, we’re not the right fit; we prepare established businesses for a high-value exit.
Our four-stage method: Assess what the business is really worth and where value is hiding, Plan the gap to PE-readiness, Execute the leadership, systems and numbers a buyer will trust, eXit on your terms. A repeatable process, not luck.
We don’t rent you an executive by the day. We deploy a team, CFO, COO, CMO and specialists, that owns a defined project with clear goals and stays accountable to the outcome. You’re buying a result, not headcount.
Two to four years before you sell, not two months. Premium multiples go to businesses built deliberately to run without the founder and survive due diligence. Start late and you leave money on the table.
Most of the work makes the business stronger whether or not you ever sell: better numbers, a sales engine that doesn’t depend on you, a leadership team that can run it. The exit just becomes an option you can take on your terms.
A business that runs without you in every decision, financials a buyer trusts, and a higher valuation than you’d reach alone. We won’t promise a number, anyone who does is guessing, but the whole method is built to lift the multiple, not just the revenue.
It depends on the engagement and how much the team takes on. The honest answer comes after a short conversation about where the business is and what it needs, so the simplest next step is to get in touch.
Then you’re exactly who this is for. What matters isn’t the number you’re at today, it’s whether you’ve got the will to grow past it and the readiness to move. If you do, we can help you get there.
