See what a buyer will knock off your price. Before you list.

Half of business sales collapse in diligence.

Around 55 percent of businesses that enter due diligence never close, and late findings are the single biggest reason deals die. The ones that survive get retraded, buyers cut 20 to 30 percent off the price on things that surface late. On a £2M sale that is £400k to £600k gone, for problems you could have fixed before anyone saw them.

Nobody prepares the owner. So the buyer sets the terms.

At the top, vendor due diligence runs £50k and six to eight weeks. At the bottom, brokers hand out free valuations that tell you nothing about what a buyer will actually challenge. Nothing sits in the middle. A fast, fixed-price, buyer's-eye read on your own business, before you list, is the thing that lets you fix the price-killers on your terms instead of the buyer's.

The scan reads your business the way a buyer's diligence will, across the seven things that break deals and cut price.

• Earnings quality. Personal costs in the numbers, weak management accounts, add-backs a buyer will strip straight out.
• Receivables and working capital. Slow collections, unbilled work, a messy working-capital number. This is the competence I built Get Paid on.
• Customer concentration. One or two clients carrying the revenue, contracts verbal or missing.
• Owner dependency. The business runs on you, and the relationships leave when you do. The single biggest discount lever there is.
• Market. A shrinking sector or an obvious threat a buyer will use to push the price down.
• Paperwork and record. Companies House flags, unassigned IP, missing key contracts, late filings.
• Deal shape. A price expectation the earnings do not support, and no handover or earn-out story.

Every flag comes with what it costs you at sale, and the move to make before you list. The verdict is plain. List now, fix first, or not sale-ready yet.

And a score, 0-100, that climbs as you fix. It moves from fix-first toward list-now, the exact direction a buyer's diligence rewards, so you can watch the work pay off before you go to market.

• Speed. A buyer's-eye read in 48 hours, not the six to eight weeks of vendor due diligence.
• A plan, not a valuation. You get the price-killers and the sequence to fix them, not a number to feel good about.
• Financial-health competence. I built a live receivables engine, so the cash-versus-profit read is the part I do best, and it is exactly where buyers dig.
• Fixed price, discreet, one operator. No junior team, no six-week wait.

Get your listings sale-ready, so your deals close higher.

You work no-sale-no-fee. A deal that dies in diligence is months of your unpaid work, and a retrade cuts the commission you did earn. I scan your new listings before they go to market, so the price-killers get fixed first and your deals clear diligence. It protects your commission. It does not compete with your valuation.

See where you stand before a buyer does.

Send me your last two or three years of accounts, and one line on why and when you want to sell. In 48 hours I send back the handful of things a buyer will hammer you on, and what to fix first. If you are already sale-ready, I will tell you that too. No cost.

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This is intelligence to help you prepare for sale. It is not a formal valuation, vendor due diligence, or legal, financial, or accounting advice. Use it to decide what to fix before you list.