Your private owner journey

Turn what you are carrying into
a clear starting point.

Six short steps organize where you are, what deserves attention first, and what a useful conversation should cover.

Begin with one honest thoughtStart the owner journey→ About 3 minutes · No documents · Use rough numbers or none · Progress saves on this device

Step 1 of 6Recognize what brought you here

It rarely starts with “I am ready to sell.”

It starts with one
honest thought.

“I know what the business earns. I do not know what I would actually keep.”Choose this “I am not even sure I want to sell. I just know I cannot do this forever.”Choose this “Everyone has advice. No one has connected the entire picture.”Choose this “If I stepped away tomorrow, I am not sure the company—or I—would be ready.”Choose this “A buyer gave me a number. I have no idea whether it is enough.”Choose this “I should have started years ago, so I keep avoiding it.”Choose this

Choose the thought that feels closest.

There is no perfect answer. Select the statement that sounds most like the question you are carrying now.

Step 2 of 6Choose your current position

Where are you
right now?

Choose the answer that feels closest—not perfect. The journey will adapt the numbers, priorities, and next decisions around you.

Your choice personalizes the rest of the journey.

Select the position that is closest today. You can change it at any time.

Step 3 of 6Identify what needs attention first

Four questions. No false precision.

Find the uncertainty
that should move first.

A transition is rarely blocked by everything at once. The first relief comes from identifying the one issue distorting the rest of the picture.

Question 1 of 4

0 of 4 answered

Choose the honest answer, not the aspirational one.

Step 4 of 6Test what the transition must produce

The offer is not the outcome

What would you keep—
and would it be enough?

Use rough numbers. No valuation or documents are required. This is a private starting point, not a forecast.

Estimated sale value$10.0M Debt at closing$1.5M Existing investable capital$1.0M Desired annual spending$275K

Illustrative starting point

illustrative freedom gap

Estimated net proceeds

+ Existing capital

Available capital

Modeled capital required

Available

Required

Next step · 5 of 6Review my complete starting picture→

Illustrative planning scenario only—not tax, legal, valuation, or investment advice. Actual results depend on transaction form, tax basis, state treatment, costs, market returns, inflation, fees, and other variables.

Step 5 of 6Review your complete starting picture

A useful first conversation
should start here.

Your business, transaction, and family balance sheet—organized around the few decisions that matter now.

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Executive observation

Build optionality before choosing an exit.

Sale value

Net proceeds

Capital required

First readiness priorityComplete the four readiness questions above.

The diagnosis connects business transferability, value, personal sufficiency, and people alignment before economics are treated as the whole answer.

Immediate priorities

Your starting picture is complete

Now decide what a useful conversation should cover.

The final step turns the work into a focused agenda.

Next step · 6 of 6Build my conversation agenda →

Step 6 of 6 · Choose your agenda and connect

You have done enough
to have a useful conversation.

This is a handoff of the picture you just built. Choose the topics that would make the first conversation worthwhile.

Your positionChoose aboveIllustrative resultComplete aboveFirst priorityComplete together

Your working agenda

Pressure-test the economicsNet proceeds, capital required, and the assumptions most likely to change the answer.Address the first readiness priorityThe issue that should move before the rest of the plan can become reliable.Compare timing and transition pathsSell, transfer, recapitalize, or wait—and what each path must accomplish.Align family and the advisor teamThe conversations, roles, and decisions that need one shared picture.Leave with a 90-day starting planThe next few actions, who owns them, and what evidence to gather.

What happens next

1. We review your context before responding.

2. The first conversation follows the agenda you chose.

3. You leave with a clearer next step—not an automatic product sequence.

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Turn what you are carrying intoa clear starting point.

It starts with onehonest thought.

Where are youright now?

Find the uncertaintythat should move first.

What would you keep—and would it be enough?

You can still build a useful agenda.

A useful first conversationshould start here.