A structured, buyer-side framework for mapping your dependency, categorising every activity you own, and building a concrete plan to extract yourself — so the business works without you.
A profitable business that cannot operate without its founder is not an asset. It is a job with staff.
01 — Why it matters
When a buyer evaluates a business, one question sits above all others: what happens if the founder disappears? If the honest answer is "quite a lot deteriorates", they respond with a lower price, a larger earn-out, or a decision not to proceed.
This workbook takes you from an honest diagnostic of where your dependency sits today, through a structured categorisation of everything you currently own, to a named, dated plan to change it — built entirely from the buyer's perspective.
You do not need to be selling tomorrow for this to matter. The best time to start is years before you intend to exit. The second-best time is now.
The buyer's 90-day test
"If this founder disappeared for 90 days with no contact, what would deteriorate — and how badly?"
Your answer to that question determines your valuation multiple, your deal structure, and the size of your buyer universe. This workbook helps you change the answer before a buyer asks it.
02 — What you get
03 — Get started
Pay once. Download immediately. Work through it at your own pace. The output is a concrete plan — not a framework you read once and file away.
Owner independence is one dimension of six. Want a full assessment across all six buyer-evaluated dimensions? The Acquirable Baseline gives you that for £247.