A business goes to market with strong revenue, clean financials, and a seller who knows the operation cold. Then due diligence starts. The buyer's team asks how the business runs without the owner. Nobody has a good answer. The valuation reflects it.
It is one of the most common and most fixable problems in a small business sale. It almost always comes up too late.
We work with business owners in the six-to-eighteen-month window before listing. We run a structured sprint, five to ten days depending on business size, and deliver a complete operations package covering everything a buyer and their advisors will request in due diligence. Org chart, SOPs, customer and vendor documentation, IT systems inventory, transition plan, all of it. Organized and formatted for a data room on day one.
5-day sprint. One operator, clean revenue, everything a buyer needs to understand how the business runs without the owner.
7-day sprint. Includes functional interviews with managers and key staff alongside full document gathering and package assembly.
10-day sprint. Structured interviews across the full leadership team, complete documentation, formatted for serious due diligence review.
Pricing is scoped based on business size and discussed on our intro call.
Unprepared businesses sell at a discount. Documented operations reduce buyer-perceived risk, shorten time on market, and reduce deal fall-through during due diligence. For a seller at $2M in revenue, that gap is real money. It's work that pays for itself at the closing table.
You identify a client in the pre-market window. You make the introduction. We handle everything from there. Your client shows up to market with a package that makes your job easier and their outcome stronger.
Kari Doherty, Founder — Closing Ready Ops
Seven years operating a brick-and-mortar business. Currently active in small business deal flow and M&A sourcing. Built this service because the documentation gap is the most expensive fixable problem I kept watching cost sellers money.
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If you have a client in the pre-market window with a documentation gap, we'd like to hear from you.
Let's talkOr email us directly at hello@closingreadyops.com