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12-Factor Readiness Assessment

Business Sale Readiness Score

Answer 12 questions across the factors buyers care about most. Get your overall readiness score, your strongest areas, your biggest value risks, and your top priorities before going to market.

1.

Financial performance

Over the last 3 years, are your revenue and profit growing or stable?

2.

Owner dependence

Could your business operate normally if you took a 3-month absence?

3.

Management team

Is there a manager or team that can run daily operations without you?

4.

Systems & processes

Are your key processes (sales, delivery, fulfillment, onboarding) documented and repeatable?

5.

Customer concentration

Is no single customer more than 15–20% of your revenue?

6.

Customer transferability

Do customers buy from your business and brand, not personally from you?

7.

Recurring revenue

Do you have contracts, subscriptions, or predictable repeat business?

8.

Legal & compliance

Are your corporate, tax, and legal documents clean and up to date?

9.

Brand & reputation

Does your business have a strong reputation in its market?

10.

Market position

Do you have a clear competitive advantage or defensible market position?

11.

Growth opportunity

Is there clear, unrealized growth a new owner could pursue with more resources?

12.

Transferability

Could a new owner take over and successfully run this business?