Acquisition

Make the business easier to buy before you try to sell it.

We help service-business owners see what a buyer will see: owner dependence, recurring revenue, clean books, documented operations, customer concentration, and management depth.

Have us review the business

Six things a buyer will notice

Owner dependence
Recurring versus one-time revenue
Financial cleanliness
Documented operations
Customer concentration
Management depth

Three ways to start

Evaluate it

Get an outside look at what makes the company transferable and what makes it dependent on you.

Prepare it

Build the operating records, workflows, and delegation a buyer will expect to see.

Talk through a sale

Use the conversation to understand the operational work that should happen before you take the next step with the appropriate broker, attorney, CPA, valuation professional, or buyer.

Questions

What do you review?

The six things above: owner dependence, recurring versus one-time revenue, financial cleanliness, documented operations, customer concentration, and management depth. The read is operational, not a valuation.

How early should I start?

Before you need to. The fixes that matter most, owner dependence, clean books, and keeping key people, all take time to look normal to a buyer rather than recent.

Do you value the company?

No. VuseDesk is not a valuation firm, and nothing here is a valuation or an appraisal. A valuation professional does that work.

Do you broker the sale?

No. VuseDesk is not a broker, an attorney, a CPA, or an investment bank. This work is operational readiness. The sale itself belongs with the appropriate broker, attorney, CPA, valuation professional, or buyer. We do buy service businesses ourselves, which is where the point of view comes from, and that is a separate conversation you would be told about plainly.

What information do you need?

To start, only what is on the form: your trade, your state, how long you have been running, roughly how big, and whether you or a manager runs the day. Anything financial comes later through a private link, and only what is actually needed.

Is it confidential?

Yes. Nothing you share is listed, shopped around, or published.

Have us review the business

Step 1, the basics

What each stage actually is

Reviewed

We read what you sent inside 3 business days and reply by email. Either there is a next step, or there is a pass with the reason attached.
Inside 3 days
Call

A conversation, often with the person who would be buying it rather than an intermediary. You describe how the work is sold, done and paid for. Nothing changes hands.
No exchange
NDA

Signed before anything sensitive moves. Financials go through a private, secured link we send you, never through this page and never over email attachments.
Signed first
Diligence

The books, the contracts, the insurance, and how the work actually gets done when you are not watching. This is the stage where add-backs either hold up or do not.
The books
Offer, or a pass

A number with the reasoning behind it, or a pass with the reason. Either way you leave knowing what a buyer sees, and no fee exists until terms are agreed in writing.
In writing

Do it yourself instead

Want to run the read yourself? The 6 checks above are the same six we run. The count is worked out in your browser, nothing on this page is sent anywhere, and whatever is left unticked is your punch list. The longer write-up is free at the acquisition guide.

You only get one first number.

A buyer's first read of your business anchors everything after it. Get that read early, while there is still time to change what it says.

Book a call Start a confidential conversation

Applying is free and the first conversation is free. No fee exists until terms are agreed in writing.