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Exit-Readiness: What Your Valuation Bridge Reveals Two Years Out
Used two years before an intended exit, the valuation bridge shows exactly which domain a buyer's due diligence will flag, letting management fix it while it's cheap, rather than discovering the same issue during an actual due diligence process, when it gets priced into the deal instead of simply resolved. Two years is roughly the amount of runway most structural issues, reporting quality, customer concentration, key-person dependency, genuinely need to be addressed properly.
Why six months before exit is usually too late
The structural issues a buyer's due diligence typically finds, weak management information, concentrated customer relationships, unclear ownership of key processes, take months to years to fix properly, not weeks. Starting exit preparation six months out means most findings get negotiated as a price reduction rather than actually resolved.
What the valuation bridge shows that a standard exit checklist doesn't
A generic exit-readiness checklist tells you what buyers generally look for. The valuation bridge, built on the company's own live scores, tells you specifically which domain and layer is currently weak enough to be a genuine finding, a prioritised list, not a generic one.
How this changes the exit-preparation conversation
Instead of a rushed pre-exit project, structural fixes become part of the ongoing value creation plan years in advance, which is both cheaper and less disruptive than compressing the same work into the months immediately before a sale process begins.
You Track Over 100 KPIs. Maybe 15 of Them Actually Matter to Your Valuation.
Orbicul gives management and shareholders the same model, the same definitions, so the quarterly conversation shifts from justifying the numbers to deciding what to change.