Exit Readiness & ValuationJune 29, 20263 min read
The Exit Readiness Audit: A Founder's Pre-Sale Checklist
A structured self-assessment covering the technical evidence a buyer will request, and what a credible answer looks like for each item.
An exit readiness audit is diligence run against yourself, early enough that findings are still cheap to resolve. The value is in the ordering, not the discovery.
The core inventory
- Architecture diagram that matches production today
- Dependency, license, and vendor inventory
- Access map covering employees, contractors, and third parties
- Incident and change history for the trailing year
- Named remediation plan with cost and owner for each open item
Sellers who arrive with this set negotiate against their own estimates. Sellers who do not negotiate against the buyer's.
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