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“Worth less than I expected.”
It is the most common sentence in this market, said by owners holding a first offer. The number lands low because the buyer starts at zero and pays only for what is proven. So we prove it. Before your business meets a single buyer, we assemble the evidence package: normalized financials, documented systems, customer and revenue analysis, verified lead flow. Every dollar defended, because we helped build the proof behind it.
“The broker worked for the buyer.”
Owners tell this story constantly, and the structure of the market explains it: intermediaries get paid when a deal closes, any deal, at any price. Our structure is different on purpose. We are engaged by you, paid by you, and our success fee scales with your price. There is no version of this where we win by talking you down.
“Handle it so I can run the business.”
The worst thing a sale process can do is pull the owner out of the business for a year, because declining numbers during diligence cost more than any negotiation. You run the company. We run the valuation, the preparation, the buyer campaign, the data room, and the closing choreography. Your job is to keep the machine humming and decide when to say yes.
Who this is for, and who it is not.
We work with
- Owner-operated businesses earning roughly $1M to $5M EBITDA
- Consistent revenue history, the kind that hums along
- Honest books, or the willingness to fix them
- Owners who want a clean, proud exit and a business that outlives them
We decline
- Chronically sick businesses that paper cannot save
- Lumpy project-revenue models where next year is a coin flip
- Anyone who wants to hide something from a buyer
Declining bad fits is not arrogance. It is how every BuiltWorth deal ends with two five-star reviews.
Free. Anonymous. Two minutes. No financials needed.
Before you list.
On $1M to $5M EBITDA deals, the market averages about 4.1x EBITDA, but the multiple swings hard on owner dependency, revenue quality, and proof. That is why we start with a real valuation instead of a formula: the same business can be worth $4M or $6M depending on what can be proven.
Usually not until late in the process, and we structure the campaign for confidentiality: blind profiles, staged disclosure, and NDAs before any buyer learns your name. Many owners also negotiate team protections into the deal terms. Buyers who plan to gut a loyal team tend to lose competitive processes.
Good. An inbound offer is leverage, not an answer. Unsolicited buyers price for an unrepresented seller. We fold that buyer into the competitive process, where their offer has to survive contact with three or four others. The offer that started the conversation is rarely the one that closes it.