You have seen this listing
A good business that will not survive diligence in its current state.
The revenue is real, the owner is credible, the price expectation is defensible on the surface. And you already know what the buyer's accountant will find: earnings that depend on the owner, one customer that is a third of revenue, reporting that cannot answer the second question, margin that does not hold at unit level.
Every one of those becomes a discount, a retrade, or a dead deal. All of them were knowable a year earlier.
What we do for the deal
Improve the business before it reaches market. Or surface what will discount it before the buyer does.
Improve sale readiness
Owner dependency, customer concentration, weak reporting and margin questions are knowable in advance. We find them, quantify them, and put owned initiatives against the ones worth fixing.
Protect the valuation
Every issue a buyer finds first becomes a discount. Every issue resolved or honestly explained before market protects the multiple you have priced the mandate on.
Reduce due-diligence surprises
The businesses that sell well run their own diligence before the buyer does. The APG evidence base is exactly that: sourced, quantified and current.
Strengthen vendor evidence
A documented financial baseline, an initiative history with measured results, and explanations for material variances. A business a buyer can read is a business a buyer can pay for.
Boundaries: this matters
The transaction is yours. It stays yours.
- We don't broker businesses or take mandates
- We don't issue valuations or appraisals
- We don't negotiate with buyers
- We don't contact your vendor without your agreement
Your vendor remains your vendor. APG works on the operating and commercial causes that determine what the business is worth. You run the transaction.
Our exit work starts with an honest constraint: six months or less before market shifts the focus from genuine improvement to presentation. The best referrals come early, when there is still time to change the number rather than the narrative.
How it works
One entry point. A defined scope. Your mandate intact.
The engagement starts with a Commercial Assessment: two to four weeks, fixed fee, built around what a buyer will scrutinise. The vendor gets a quantified picture of what is constraining value and a prioritised pathway. Where improvement work proceeds, every initiative carries a value case and is reconciled against actuals monthly inside the APG Platform, building the evidence room the eventual buyer will read.
A good referral
- Twelve months or more before the intended campaign
- Established owner-led business with real earnings underneath the story
- An owner who will act on findings, not just hear them
- Gaps that are knowable and fixable: dependency, concentration, reporting, margin
Not a fit
- Going to market in the next few weeks
- Distressed sales where timing is forced
- Owners who want the issues papered over rather than fixed
Have a listing that needs a year of work first?
A short conversation is enough to tell whether the gap is fixable and worth fixing. Initial conversations can remain entirely de-identified.
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