How it runs, out of your head.Into one memory anyone can ask.
The questions a buyer asks in diligence, answered with the record shown, without you in the room.
If you own a small operation, you are the operating manual. Every buyer knows it. That is why the offer comes with an earnout, and why owners end up tied to a business for two or three years after they sold it.
The business is worth more than the offer. The gap is legibility. A buyer pays less for what they cannot see, and cannot run without you.
In most small operations, that layer is the owner. The jobs, the customers, the quirks of every unit, who does what: it all routes through one person. Take that person out and the business stalls.
We move the control plane out of your head and into a business memory. The same people keep doing the work. The knowledge stops living in one head.
A buyer sees a business that runs on one person's memory. So the price drops and the earnout gets longer.
A buyer sees a business anyone can operate. The owner can leave on the date in the agreement.
The dig comes first. We map every system you run and get the records out, including the software that will not give them up. Every asset, customer, and job becomes one record with its history attached.
A buyer or their advisor asks the memory and gets the answer with the source record shown. Fewer "let me check" emails. Fewer weeks in diligence. Less discount for what they could not see.
The new operator inherits the control plane, not your phone number. The earnout runs on records, not on you. We keep the memory current for whoever runs the business next.
Your job software, your accounting package, your document signing, your shared drive: they all stay. We read from them and write back where it helps. Nobody has to learn a new system, and the buyer does not have to rip anything out on day one.
At close, the memory and the access go to the new operator. Your systems can stay or go. The record of how the business runs survives either way.
You see the messy operation before anyone else does, and you only get paid when it closes. We make it legible in 90 days. You take a business to market that a buyer can ask questions of, with the source records behind every answer.
Referral terms are simple and discussed on a call.
Talk about a referralYou bought the business. The founder is the only one who knows how it runs, and the earnout says they can leave in two years. A control plane in place before close means the operator you send in can ask the business instead of asking the founder.
We also take post-close engagements where the owner has already left.
Talk about a portfolio companyWe map every system you run and get the records out, including the software that will not give them up. We fix where data goes missing on the way in and take one real asset end to end. You test it yourself before anything else gets built.
We keep the memory current, add the questions a buyer asks next, and stay on call through diligence and the handover. Fixed pilot fee, then a flat monthly fee. Numbers on the call, not on a pricing page.
It can run on a machine in your office. Nothing leaves unless you decide it should, including to a buyer. Access is granted by you, per person, and can be taken back.
Built first for a reefer trailer leasing and service company in Ontario. Fourteen years of work orders, parts, invoices, and rentals clawed out of a legacy system that had no export, and put in front of the owner as one memory he can ask.
First customer, engagement ongoing. References on request.Twenty minutes. Bring the three questions a buyer would ask that only you can answer today. We will tell you honestly whether your records can be clawed out before you list, and what it would take.
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