Most owners spend 20 years building a business and plan their exit in the last one. In 5 minutes, find out how ready your business is to sell, what is holding back its value, and how fast you can close the gap.
Every buyer asks one question: will this keep making money without the owner? If the answer depends on you, your relationships, your decisions and your phone, they see risk. Risk shows up as a lower offer, more of the price tied to earn-outs, or no deal at all.
When you walk out, the decisions, relationships and know-how walk out with you. A buyer sees that risk and prices it in.
When you walk out, the systems, team, numbers and plans stay. That is what a buyer pays full price for.
Customers, staff and vendors all route through you. A buyer can't purchase your judgment or your relationships.
No manuals for each post, no written sales, hiring or purchasing process. What isn't written down can't be transferred.
If profit, growth and key statistics aren't tracked and clean, a buyer discounts whatever they can't verify.
It isn't a broker listing or a retirement date. It's the work of turning an owner-run company into an asset someone else can own and operate, started early enough that you control the price, the timing and the terms.
A competitor, an investor group or an individual buyer. Often the highest price, and the highest bar for systems and clean financials.
A management or employee buyout. Protects your legacy and culture, and works best when your leaders already run the day-to-day.
A planned succession. It needs the same systems as a sale, plus clear roles and time to train the next generation.
Put an operator in place, keep the income and get your time back. The work that makes a business sellable is what makes this possible.
Whichever path you choose, value comes down to the same four areas. The scorecard measures each one and weights it by how much it moves your readiness.
Weekly statistics, steady growth, consistent profit and a written financial plan.
Manuals for every post, plus marketing, sales, hiring and purchasing systems that run without you.
Vision, mission and target market on paper, with 30/60/90-day and 1, 3 and 5-year plans.
How much of your day goes to firefighting, and how long the business runs without you.
Velocity is how quickly you're closing the gap between where your business is today and where it needs to be to sell well. Owners who start early can grow and de-risk at the same time. Owners who start late are forced to choose.
Install the statistics, systems and manuals. Grow the business while you step out of daily operations.
Run the business through your team and let the numbers show it works without you.
Clean financials, documented operations and a clear story for buyers. Go to market from strength.
Answer 21 questions about your finances, team, systems, plans and your role. Your report appears the moment you finish.
You'll see:Vida or Victor walks through your results with you and looks at what it will take to exit on your terms.
On the call we'll:Your score places you in one of four tiers, each with an estimated runway to being ready to sell.
You are the business right now. Every system you install starts building sellable value.
Parts of the business run on systems, but too much still depends on you.
Real foundations are in place. A few gaps would lower your valuation or scare off buyers.
Your business looks transferable. The work now is packaging and positioning for the best price.
If your target exit date is shorter than your bar, the discovery call is where we work out how to close the difference.
Vida and Victor Puodziunas have built, scaled and sold a business of their own, and bring over 30 years of combined experience to every owner they coach. Victor focuses on operations, people and financial performance. Vida focuses on marketing, sales, training and customer experience.
As Focal Point certified business coaches, they help owners install the statistics, systems, manuals and plans that let a business work beyond them, so they can grow faster and exit stronger.
Vida and Victor have taken their own business all the way through to a sale. We coach from experience, not theory.
Combined experience across operations, people, finance, marketing, sales and training.
Focal Point certified business coaches, backed by the Focal Point Global Network's proven methods.
If we don't keep it, tell us. We'd rather earn your trust than ask for it.
About 5 minutes. There are 21 multiple-choice questions, and your results appear as soon as you finish.
No. The scorecard, your report and the 20-minute discovery call are all free, with no obligation.
We review your score, talk about your exit goal and timeline, and identify what's needed to close the gaps. You'll leave with your next three priorities whether or not we work together.
Yes. The earlier you start, the more time you have to raise your business's value. The same work that makes a business sellable is what gives an owner their time back.
No. A broker helps you sell the business you have. We help you build a business worth more before you sell it, so you go to market from a stronger position.
Your answers are used to prepare your results and your discovery call. We never sell your information.
Five minutes now tells you what 20 years built, and what it will take to sell it on your terms.