Prepare your business for its next chapter

What is your business worth?

Understand what a buyer might pay for your business — and what you could do to increase its value before selling.

An estimate for owners. Not an appraisal, and not an offer to sell your business.

Method

From a question to a plan.

Most owners meet a broker before the books can survive a buyer. Transactable starts earlier: a range you can read, then the work that makes the range believable.

01
Tell us the economics
Revenue, owner earnings, how long the business has operated, and when you might sell. No account. No deck.
02
See a range immediately
An illustrative band from your earnings and the industry. You get it before we ask for a name.
03
Read the adjustments
The full report shows what size, history, and earnings quality did to the range, and where the number is fragile.
04
Book a conversation, if it is useful
We review the estimate, the gaps, and whether you are actually ready. If you are not, we will say so.
05
Do the work that changes the outcome
Financial cleanup, a seller package, valuation support, or a coordinated path toward a sale. Only if it is worth paying for.

The report

The range is the start. The adjustments are the product.

This is the report for the HVAC example above, not a promise about your company. Yours uses your industry, your earnings, and your timeline.

Example report

A regional HVAC company

HVAC and mechanical · 10+ years · 1–3 years

Adjusted illustrative range

$1,157,000 – $1,781,000

2.8× – 4.2× owner earnings

The first screen showed $1,092,000 – $1,680,000, from the industry band alone. This range is those same earnings after the adjustments below.

Industry band
HVAC and mechanical uses an illustrative band of 2.6× to 4.0× owner earnings, before any adjustment.
Baseline
Scale of earnings
Earnings are in the range where an owner-operated company typically trades, before industry and quality.
Baseline
Years in operation
Ten or more years of operation modestly supports the range. Longevity is not the same as transferable earnings, but it helps.
Supports the range
Earnings quality
Owner earnings are a healthy share of revenue, which is what most buyers underwrite.
Supports the range

Next step

Plan the next one to three years

You have time, which is the advantage. A plan for that window looks at the discounts buyers apply — owner dependence, customer concentration, messy add-backs — and which of them you can actually change. The calculator cannot see those. A scoped engagement can.

Run your numbers

Illustrative range from planning multiples, October 2026. Not an appraisal, a fairness opinion, or a quality-of-earnings report. Real estate, inventory, excess cash, and debt are not included. A buyer will do their own work.

If the estimate is worth acting on

Work an owner can hire. Nothing disguised as a listing agreement.

Financial cleanup

Historical books, owner expenses pulled out, one-time items labeled, and earnings a buyer can follow. Fixed fee, scoped after we see the shape of the records.

Exit-readiness assessment

What transfers, what is still you, and what a buyer would discount. Useful three years out. Necessary in the year you go to market.

Valuation support

The calculator is a range. A transaction needs a story behind it. We assemble the materials and coordinate an independent valuation or quality-of-earnings review when the situation calls for one.

A path to market

When a sale is the right next step, we help you prepare and coordinate with licensed brokers, M&A counsel, and your CPA. Brokering the sale is a licensed activity. This site does not do it.

The point

Buyers do not pay for how hard you worked. They pay for earnings they believe will continue without you.

Questions worth answering first.

Is this a formal valuation?

No. It is an illustrative range from the figures you enter and a set of planning multiples. It is not an appraisal, a fairness opinion, or a quality-of-earnings report. A buyer, a lender, and a court would all do their own work.

Why do you ask for my name before the full report?

You see a range first. The full report adds the adjustments and a recommended next step. We ask who you are so that report stays with your answers, and so we can reply if you want a conversation. We do not sell the information.

Will you sell my business?

Not from this site. Getting a company ready and brokering a sale are different jobs. Brokerage is licensed. If a sale is the right path, we will tell you what the process requires and who has to be involved.

What does it cost?

The estimate and the first conversation are free. If there is paid work, we scope it in writing before it starts. If there is no useful engagement, we will say so.

What if the books are a mess?

Enter your best good-faith figures. The report will say when earnings are too thin, too large relative to revenue, or otherwise hard for a buyer to trust. Cleanup is often the work that matters.

Who is this for?

Owners of operating companies in the United States who want a sober look at price and readiness. It is not a tool for pricing a public company or a venture round.