You built it. But do you know what it's worth without you in it?
Get a free, confidential valuation of your company — the real figure a buyer would pay today, and an honest view of what stands between the business you have and the exit you want.
Confidential
Your figures go no further than the advisor working on your valuation.
No Obligation
Take the number and walk away. There is nothing to buy at the end of it.
Sector-Aware
Benchmarked against real comparable deals in your industry, not a generic formula.
Not because they weren't good businesses. Because nobody told the owner, early enough, what a buyer would actually be looking at. Most owners find out what their company is worth at the worst possible moment — when they've already decided to leave, and there's no time left to change the answer.
The number matters less than the gap.
Every owner has a figure in their head — the one that means you could stop, or slow down, or hand it on and know it will keep running. A valuation tells you where you actually stand against that figure today. If the gap is small, that's worth knowing. If it's large, it's worth knowing while there's still time to close it — because value can be built deliberately, and the owners who do it start years before they sell.
Three things, one conversation.
- 01 A desktop valuation of your business based on current performance.
- 02 The value drivers a buyer in your sector would examine — and where you currently sit against them.
- 03 A one-hour session with a senior advisor — on your agenda. Start with the valuation, then go wherever matters most: growth, funding, or the route to exit.
And if the gap is bigger than you'd like — this is the same process that has taken owners from undervalued to oversubscribed.
One business we're aware of went to market and sold for more than double what the owner had first expected — after competitive bidding between buyers.
Delivered through our advisory partner, a UK business advisory firm that has worked with SME owners on growth, funding and exit since 2007. Outcomes vary by business; this is one illustration of what preparation can make possible.
Find out where you stand.
Takes two minutes. You get the valuation and the session — the agenda is yours. Goldstone & Crown manages the relationship from first contact through to introduction.
- 1You share a few details. Just enough for an advisor to prepare a valuation of the business.
- 2Your valuation is prepared. Ready within seven days — no cost, no obligation.
- 3You talk it through. A call to walk through the number and what it's telling you.
- 4You decide what's next. Sell now, or build the value first. Nothing is sold to you on the call.