A guided ~40-minute consultation that measures exactly what a buyer's advisor will measure — how much of the business depends on you personally, whether your earnings can be proven, and whether anyone else could take the keys. You get an honest readiness level and a plan, years before you need either.
of small-business owners plan to exit their business within the next decade — one example: Canada, where the wave is best documented.
Source: CFIB succession researchhave a formal succession plan. Most exits are improvised — and improvised exits sell at a discount.
Source: CFIB succession researchvalue killer named by owners themselves: the business depends too much on their personal involvement.
Cited by 40% of owners (CFIB)Think of it like a pre-listing home inspection: every issue this consultation finds is one a buyer's accountant would have found later — at the negotiating table, when it costs you money. Found two years early, almost all of them are fixable.
A structured conversation through five areas — your exit picture, how much the business depends on you, your financials, and what a handover would take. Plain answers beat polished ones.
A readiness level from A to D, computed from your own answers — every finding quotes what you actually said. No generic filler.
Which professionals to engage — accountant, valuator, lawyer, broker — in what order, with what homework done, and which calls would be premature today.
Four levels, computed from your answers by a scored methodology across owner readiness, owner dependency, financial readiness, and transferability. A well-prepared business scores well — the credibility of a diagnostic is knowing how to say "you're ready".
Sale-ready. Confirm with your professionals and choose your moment.
Ready with work. A short list of gaps, each with an owner and a date.
Value at risk. Selling now means selling at a discount — fix, then sell.
Not transferable today. Build transferability first; some steps would waste money now.
Each gap a buyer would price or walk away on, ranked, with what it looks like from their side — and backed by your own words, never our opinion.
Your recurring revenue, your loyal crew, your clean history — the strengths a diagnostic that only lists faults would miss. Always included.
Concrete steps grouped 0–3, 3–12, and 12–24 months — from one afternoon writing down your pricing rules to proving the business runs without you.
Accountant, financial planner, tax advisor, lawyer, accredited business valuator, broker — who to call, when, and why some calls are premature at your level. Pre-sale structuring topics commonly need 24+ months of runway; the report tells you which clocks are already ticking.
A structured review of whether a business could actually change hands: how dependent it is on the current owner, whether its earnings can be proven to a stranger with money at stake, and whether the team, systems, and paperwork would survive a handover. It applies in any jurisdiction — SwiftyX runs it as a guided ~40-minute AI consultation ending in a scored report.
No. The consultation works from your answers — rough numbers and honest ranges are enough. Anything you can't answer becomes an "open item" in the report with a named owner (usually your accountant) and a date, which is itself useful information.
The opposite — runway is the asset. Most fixes that raise a sale price (proving the business runs without you, upgrading financial statements, diversifying a dominant customer) take 12–24 months. The owners who sell well are the ones who measured early.
Consultations are anonymous by default — the diagnostic works from operational facts, not names. See our privacy terms for how consultation data is handled.
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