The exit score
Know your exit-readiness score before a buyer does
Fifteen minutes. Six pillars. A number you can act on, and a preliminary valuation range alongside it. No obligation and no pitch.
Start
Two ways to get your exit score
Take the gap calculator on your own, or have a member of the customer success team walk you through it.
Self-serve
Do it yourself
The FNDRS Gap Discovery Calculator on the platform: six pillars of questions, scored as you answer, to show the gaps that may exist in your business.
Take the gap calculatorGuided
Get a guided assessment
Tell us about you and the business, then pick a time. A member of the customer success team walks you through it with you.
Both are free, with no obligation. We never sell your details.
What the score is
- Scored against what buyers actually pay for
- A written summary of your three biggest gaps
- Confidential. Your numbers stay yours.
Have at hand
You will answer faster with these nearby
- Last year's revenue and earnings, roughly
- Your five largest customers and their share of revenue
- Headcount, and who runs sales, operations, and finance
- How much of revenue repeats under contract
- The year you would like to be out
- Whether the books are cash or accrual, and how they close
A founder on finding the gaps
On how his FNDRS Discovery Day showed him the gaps in the business and the plan to close them.
Joe Seehey CEO, Cured Nutrition · Colorado
How it is scored
Six report cards, one number
Each pillar is a report card from 0 to 100, read from the elements beneath it against what a sophisticated buyer expects at close. Fifty is the neutral pivot: above it a pillar adds to your standing, below it a buyer will price the gap. The exit-readiness score is the six read together.
A sample scorecard
What the six look like when they come back
Six report cards, then the number they make. The dashed marks are the targets the plan sets; the distance between is the value gap, pillar by pillar.
Sample data Acme Industrial. Sample scores, not a client. Yours come from your own answers.
What you get
Three things you can act on the same week
The score reports the three biggest gaps first. Think of them as three holes in a bucket: patch one and the level climbs, patch all three and it holds where a buyer can see it.
The score
Exit readiness from 0 to 100, with each pillar's report card behind it, so you can see which of the six is holding the number down.
A preliminary range
A first read on what the business might be worth today, from the platform's valuation. Indicative, pre-tax, and a starting point for the real valuation.
Your three biggest gaps
Written up in the vocabulary of the table: which elements, why a buyer cares, and what closing each one looks like.
Then what
The score is the first assay, not the last
Every element in the score is one of the FNDRS Elements®. If the number is not where you want it, the process works the gaps in order: build, scale, sell, secure. If it is, the sell-side team can talk about timing.
What the gaps are worth
Each gap the score finds is a slice of the exit price
The score reports the three biggest gaps first because each one is a bar on the bridge between today's value and the value at exit. Close them in order and the slices stack. The dollar figures come from the FNDRS engine, never from the chart.
Questions
Before you start
Yes. It is the first step of every FNDRS engagement and it costs nothing. There is no obligation and no pitch at the end of it.
It is a readiness score with a preliminary range alongside it. The full valuation, investor-grade and evidence-based, runs in the FNDRS platform and takes about ten minutes more.
About fifteen minutes if you have last year's numbers and your customer list nearby. You can stop and come back.
They stay with FNDRS, and we never sell them. Your numbers are used to score the business and for nothing else.
You do. With a guided assessment, so does the member of the customer success team who walks you through it.
Take the score anyway. The elements apply at every size; the advisory work is built for owners of $3M to $30M businesses, and the score tells you how far you are from that range.
Fifteen minutes. A number you can act on.
Score the business today, and see what a buyer would see.