From Fragmented to Fundable:
Creating Exit-Ready Platforms
Challenges We Solve:
Small Business Size Dilemma
Solutions We Provide:
Exit Value Enhancement
Enterprise Value of Our Platform > EV₁ + EV₂ + EV₃
Most small businesses never reach their full exit potential.
Owner-dependency, operational limitations, and modest scale
keep them from attracting the best buyers.
We specialize in Exit Value Enhancement Advisory. Our team
strategically combines compatible businesses, installs
professional management structures, consolidates financials,
and packages the result into scalable acquisition platforms
that private equity firms and strategic buyers covet.
The result?
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Increased Buyer Readiness
We help shape businesses into well-documented, acquisition-ready platforms—making it easier for serious buyers, including PE firms, to engage.
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Streamlined Due Diligence
Clear financials, structured operations, and pre-qualified lending support reduce friction and delays during buyer evaluation.
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Stronger Strategic Fit
By combining multiple small businesses into a cohesive platform, we create financeable, scalable opportunities aligned with buyer criteria—without inflating expectations.
We engineer premium acquisition targets.
Why Work With Us
Stronger Buyer Demand.
We create acquisition opportunities that are larger, professionally managed, and strategically packaged — exactly what private equity firms and strategic buyers seek.
By transforming individual businesses into scalable platforms, we attract broader buyer interest, increase engagement, and generate competitive tension among serious acquirers.
Buyer-Ready Preparation
Buyers move forward when uncertainty is removed.
Our structured process — from operational alignment to consolidated, lender-ready financials — gives buyers the clarity and confidence they need to engage, negotiate, and proceed.
No Upfront Cost.
We succeed only when you succeed.
Our compensation is entirely success-based, meaning you pay nothing upfront. We invest our expertise and resources into preparing your business for a premium exit — and we only win when you do.
Platform Criteria
We help transform well-run businesses into premium acquisition platforms.
To qualify for integration, a company should meet most of the following:
✅ Key Requirements
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Consistent Profitability
Sustained positive net income — typically over multiple years.
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Owner Independence
The business operates without the owner in day-to-day fieldwork.
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Recurring or Predictable Revenue
Strong portion of revenue from contracts or repeat customers.
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Scalable Operations
Runs on systems and people — not just the owner’s involvement.
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EBITDA Between $300K–$1M
Ideal range for integration into a larger platform.
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Forward Outlook
Reliable 3-year financial projections
We also work creatively with brokers to assemble roll-up opportunities — combining multiple companies into one financeable and attractive package.
How it works.
Introduction
At Transition Consulting, we work quietly behind the scenes with business brokers to build acquisition-grade companies—professionalized, lender-ready, and positioned for strategic buyers. Our role is not to replace your expertise—but to quietly strengthen the business behind the listing, so you can attract more serious buyers, secure financing, and close faster—often at higher multiples.
Step 1: Broker Engagement
We partner directly with you, the broker. You remain the client’s primary point of contact—we stay behind the scenes. You bring us into listings that need cleanup, clarity, or consolidation, and we help shape the business into an acquisition-grade asset.
Step 2: Business Review
We perform a buyer-style review of the business’s financials, operations, and structure. We highlight key risks, financing red flags, and improvement opportunities—so you’re never blindsided during diligence or lender review.
Step 3: Value Enhancement Plan
We create a clear, actionable plan focused on professionalizing operations, reducing owner dependency, and increasing buyer and lender confidence.
Step 4: Implementation Support
We help execute the changes that matter—from fixing books and building dashboards to organizing key documents and separating owner perks. This creates a strong foundation for the deal.
Step 5: Light Due Diligence & QofE Prep
We conduct light-touch diligence and a simplified quality of earnings (QofE) analysis. This helps normalize EBITDA and ensures clean, lender-ready financials—minimizing surprises during diligence.
Step 6: Strategic Combination
We assemble 2–4 complementary companies into a platform-level package. This increases EBITDA, reduces risk concentration, and creates a more attractive story for both lenders and institutional buyers.
Step 7: Interim Leadership Planning
To strengthen post-close readiness, we help identify interim CEO/CFO candidates—often from within the combined group. This de-risks the deal and improves financeability. Final decisions always rest with the buyer.
Step 8: Deal Packaging
We prepare professional-grade materials, including normalized and pro forma financials, investor-facing dashboards, and a CIM that meets lower-middle market expectations. These are designed for both buyers and their lending partners.
Step 9: Bank Pre-Approval Coordination
We present the cleaned-up package to our trusted banking partners for soft pre-approval. This gives buyers and their advisors early visibility into likely funding terms—reducing surprises and improving deal certainty.
Step 10: Buyer Engagement
We support you in identifying and engaging qualified buyers—primarily PE firms and strategic acquirers. While we stay behind the scenes, we assist with Q&A, coordinate data rooms, and ensure the opportunity withstands investor and lender scrutiny.
Conclusion
You bring the listing. We turn it into a lender-ready, acquisition-grade asset.
Together, we close deals that outperform expectations.
ABOUT US
At Transition Consulting, we partner with experienced business brokers to help their clients achieve premium exits. We believe that with the right preparation, small businesses can become highly attractive acquisition platforms.
We bring decades of hands-on experience in growing, restructuring, and scaling companies. With a background in operational transformation, financial management, and strategic M&A, we understand what makes serious buyers take action—because we've built businesses they pursue.
We are not brokers. We are strategic exit architects who collaborate exclusively with brokers to design, enhance, and position businesses for acquisition.
If you're a broker seeking real results for your clients, or an owner working with a trusted broker, we invite you to discover what premium preparation can achieve.