Product 03
Enterprise Value Readiness
For investment, financing, succession, partnership or exit. Paradigm improves economic quality, management independence, evidence, governance, transferability and readiness for the relevant capital event.
Condition
When this work applies
- A capital event is approaching: investment, financing, succession, partnership or exit.
- The economics are real, but the evidence a counterparty will require is not assembled.
- The business still depends materially on the owner, which a buyer or financier will price.
- Governance and reporting were built for the owner's use, not for external scrutiny.
Economic stakes
What it costs to leave it unresolved
- Counterparties price uncertainty. Unevidenced quality is discounted quality.
- Owner dependence is a transferability risk, and it is assessed as one.
- Weak evidence lengthens diligence, widens the questions and shifts negotiating position.
- Preparation done under deal pressure costs more and yields less than preparation done in advance.
The work
What Paradigm does
Economic quality
Strengthen the durability and clarity of earnings and cash conversion before they are examined.
Management independence
Reduce dependence on the founder so the business demonstrably runs without them.
Evidence and governance
Assemble the record and the governance a counterparty expects, at the standard they expect it.
Transferability
Make relationships, processes and knowledge institutional rather than personal.
How it runs
In plain language
- A readiness working session on the specific capital event and the counterparty's likely standard.
- An assessment across economic quality, management independence, evidence, governance and transferability.
- A readiness decision set: the few decisions that most improve position before the event.
- Execution through the operating rhythm, with owners and dates.
- Verification and handover of the evidence pack to the team who will carry it into the process.
Client artefacts
What you hold at the end
- A readiness assessment across the five dimensions.
- A written readiness decision set with owners, dates and economics.
- An evidence pack structured for external scrutiny.
- A management independence plan showing what the founder no longer decides.
Proof standard
How movement is verified
- Readiness improvements are described in terms of what is now evidenced, not in terms of implied valuation.
- Paradigm publishes no valuation multiples, discounts or uplift claims.
- Financial movements are verified with finance; structural changes are recorded as verified outcomes only when demonstrably in place.
- Anything expected rather than achieved is labelled forecast.
Next step
Discuss your priority
Bring the event you are preparing for and its timeline. The first conversation establishes what a counterparty will test, and which decisions most improve your position before they do.
Discuss your priority