For established, owner-led Australian businesses.
The price a buyer pays is set years before they call. Adapt designs out the owner-dependency discount, so the business is worth more with or without a sale.
The review is 45 minutes, confidential, with no fee and no obligation.
An acquirer values what transfers cleanly and discounts what walks out the door with you. Three things decide which side of that line your business sits on.
The discount buyers never mention
When the business runs on your relationships, your judgement and your hours, a buyer prices that risk straight into the multiple.
What turns goodwill into transferable value
How the business runs has to live on paper and platform, not in your head, before a buyer will pay full value for it.
Proof the value stays after settlement
A leadership team that owns outcomes is the difference between selling a business and selling yourself with it.
Turn the business you run into the asset you own.
Design out the owner-dependency discount, so a buyer or successor pays for what you built.
Way beyond anything I've read or seen. A whole philosophy for SMEs towards succession planning and building a resilient business.
Built on Succession Thinking®, the framework by Bill Withers.
Buyers pay more for a business that does not depend on its owner. Adapt lifts the multiple by reducing founder-dependency, strengthening the leadership team, and making the business diligence-ready, well before any sale. The Owner Independence Diagnostic measures your starting point.
Owner-dependent businesses carry a founder-dependency discount: the more value walks out the door with you, the less a buyer pays. Adapt helps you measure that discount and close it by building independence into the business. See where you stand with the Owner Independence Diagnostic.
Under five minutes, no email. See where a buyer would discount your business today.
The review is 45 minutes, confidential, with no fee and no obligation.
