Exit Ready: The 90-Day Sprint to Maximum Valuation

By: Mercer, Daniel

You've decided to sell your business. The clock is running. Every week you wait is a week you're not increasing value or fixing the tripwires that destroy deals.

Most owners prepare for exit the wrong way-spending months on cosmetic improvements while deal-killing issues lurk in the shadows. Buyers don't pay for polished presentations. They pay for defensible earnings, sticky revenue, clean documentation, and transferable operations.

EXIT-READY is your surgical playbook for transforming a profitable business into a buyer-ready asset in just 90 days. This is a battle-tested sprint methodology that prioritizes the exact fixes that raise multiples and eliminate risk discounts.

INSIDE YOU'LL FIND:
- A 72-hour rapid diagnostic to identify deal-killers before buyers find them
- The one-page 90-day project plan with weekly outcomes and clear owners
- Financial house essentials: clean up owner expenses, prove recurring revenue, reconcile working capital
- Quality of earnings narrative that anticipates buyer adjustments with supporting evidence
- Revenue recognition and customer concentration fixes that make sales look durable
- Working capital optimization that shows cash-generating power
- Operational documentation: minimum viable SOPs and playbooks that prove your business runs without you
- People risk mitigation: org charts, retention plans, and succession frameworks
- Contract, IP, and asset documentation: prove what you own and what you owe
- Legal, compliance, and insurance gap analysis that closes deal-killing exposures
- Data room packaging: organize evidence so buyers verify claims in minutes
- Buyer Q&A preparation: anticipate hard questions with document-backed responses

WHO THIS IS FOR:

Business owners planning an exit within 12 months who need to maximize valuation fast. Operators who've built profitable companies but lack M&A-ready infrastructure. CEOs and CFOs leading exit prep teams who want a clear roadmap instead of vague consulting advice.

EXIT-READY delivers blunt language, concrete examples, and tactical checklists you can implement immediately. No fluff. Just the surgical fixes that separate discounted exits from top-of-market valuations.

The 90-day sprint starts now.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GL2XR9KD
• ISBN13: 9798246591901
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"