Magnano Advisory Exit Preparation
Free Assessment

Would your numbers survive diligence?

Twenty questions across the five areas a buyer's quality-of-earnings team rebuilds first. Answer honestly and you will get a score, a readiness grade, and the three gaps most likely to cost you money in a transaction.

20 questions, about 6 minutesNo sales call requiredBuilt from a $95M sell-side process
0 of 20 answered
01

Financial Infrastructure

Whether the reporting layer can produce numbers a third party will accept.

Monthly close is complete within 15 days, consistently.
Financials are produced on accrual basis, with revenue recognition applied consistently.
One system is the source of truth. Reporting is not reassembled in spreadsheets each month.
You have had a financial statement review or audit in the last two years.
02

EBITDA Quality

The gap between management EBITDA and the number a buyer will actually underwrite.

You can produce a defensible EBITDA bridge from GAAP net income, with every add-back documented.
Owner compensation and personal expenses are separated and normalized.
Non-recurring items are tracked as they occur, not reconstructed at the end of the year.
Gross margin has been stable or improving for the last eight quarters, and you can explain why.
03

Revenue Durability

Concentration and contract quality are where multiples get taken away quietly.

No single customer represents more than 15% of revenue.
Revenue is contracted or recurring rather than project-by-project.
You can report profitability by customer and by product, not just in total.
Customer contracts survive a change of control without renegotiation.
04

Cash & Working Capital

The working capital peg is negotiated late and costs real money when it is a surprise.

You run a rolling 13-week cash forecast and it is reasonably accurate.
You know your normalized working capital level and how seasonally it moves.
Receivables aging is clean, with no material balances past 90 days.
You are in compliance with all debt covenants and have headroom on each.
05

Diligence Readiness

Whether you could answer a buyer's first request list without stopping the business.

Contracts, cap table, and corporate records are organized and current.
You have a forecast you would defend line by line to a skeptical buyer.
The business would keep running normally if leadership spent 20 hours a week on a transaction.
Someone other than the founder can credibly present the numbers.

See your score and your three biggest gaps.

Results appear on this page immediately. No email required to see them.

Answer what you can. Unanswered questions score as zero.
0
out of 100
Readiness grade: ...

Your three biggest gaps

Ranked by what typically costs the most in a transaction, not by what is easiest to fix.

Want the full write-up?

A two-page PDF with your scores, all five dimensions written out, what to fix first, and roughly how long each takes.

I read every one of these and send the write-up personally, usually within two business days. You will also start receiving The Operator's Brief, my monthly note on stabilizing, scaling, and exiting. Unsubscribe anytime.

Or skip the email... save your results as a PDF right now.