Services & Pricing
Structured advisory built around how buyers and lenders actually evaluate a deal — so you are not caught off guard when it counts.
What We Do
Most business owners assume that if the business is making money, it will sell. Buyers and lenders see it differently. They are evaluating whether the business can survive the transition — whether it runs without you, whether the financials hold up under scrutiny, and whether the documentation exists to give a new owner confidence.
Mahoney Road works with Main Street business owners to close that gap. We evaluate your business through the same lens buyers and lenders use during due diligence, identify the risks and gaps that would kill or discount a deal, and deliver a Business Exit Readiness Report with clear, prioritized recommendations to fix them — before you ever go to market.
We serve business owners nationwide. All advisory work is conducted remotely through structured working sessions designed to be efficient and focused.
Why This Matters
Most deals do not fall apart because the business is unprofitable. They fall apart because something surfaces during diligence that was not expected.
What Surfaces Late
What Buyers Do With That
By the time those issues are discovered, you are already in the deal. Mahoney Road is designed to surface them before a buyer ever does — so you can strengthen the business, reduce avoidable risk, and make better decisions whether you plan to sell soon or simply want a stronger company now.
What We Evaluate
01
Financial Integrity
Buyers and lenders look for credible financial records, defensible earnings, and reporting that holds up under scrutiny. Weak financial visibility creates risk fast.
02
Operational
They want to see that core processes are documented, repeatable, and not held together by memory, workarounds, or daily owner intervention.
03
Team & Leadership
Management depth, role clarity, and leadership continuity matter. If too much of the business depends on one person, transferability suffers.
04
Customer Stability
Customer concentration, revenue durability, and relationship continuity all affect buyer confidence. Fragile revenue is a major pressure point in diligence.
05
Compliance & Risk
Contracts, licenses, legal structure, insurance, and supporting documentation need to be current, defensible, and ready for review.
06
Growth Infrastructure
Your digital presence, systems, tools, and market positioning all shape how the business is perceived. Weak infrastructure raises questions about resilience and upside.
07
Transferability
A business must be able to continue under new ownership. Access, continuity, facilities, lease issues, and owner dependency all affect whether that transition can happen cleanly.
The Deliverable
The core deliverable inside every Mahoney Road engagement is the Business Exit Readiness Report (BERR). This is where the work comes together. It shows you how your business holds up under real buyer and lender scrutiny, where the risks are hiding, and what needs to change to make the business more transferable, more defensible, and easier to finance.
Yes, it includes a clear action plan. But it is more than that. It is a structured analysis of your business through the lens of diligence — designed to surface the issues that create price pressure, reduce buyer confidence, slow financing, or derail a deal altogether.
And even if you do not sell right away, the value does not disappear. The same recommendations that make a business more attractive to a buyer often make it stronger, cleaner, and easier to run for the current owner too.
Services & Pricing
Both tracks follow the same structured methodology — the difference is depth, scope, and the size of the business we are working with.
Every engagement follows a structured client journey: Exit Readiness Assessment, one-on-one Initial Consultation, onboarding, modular sprints, live strategic sessions, Business Exit Readiness Report delivery, and 30- and 60-day momentum follow-up.
Track One
$500K – $1.5M Annual Revenue
$4,997
Three milestone-based payments.
Due at agreement signing, midpoint milestone, and BERR delivery.
Most engagements are completed within 10–14 weeks.
Track Two
$1.5M – $5M Annual Revenue
$8,997
Three milestone-based payments.
Due at agreement signing, midpoint milestone, and BERR delivery.
Most engagements are completed within 14–18 weeks.
How It Works
Step 01
Assess
Complete a 15-question assessment to establish your baseline across the key dimensions buyers and lenders evaluate. Takes about 15 minutes.
Step 02
Consult
Review your results in a focused Initial Consultation. We walk through your score, discuss your priorities, and determine whether an engagement is the right next step for your situation.
Step 03
Engage
Work through modular sprints and live strategic sessions. Each session is scheduled after a sprint milestone and focused on interpreting findings and making decisions — not chasing documents.
Step 04
Deliver
Receive your Business Exit Readiness Report in a dedicated delivery session. Your consultant walks through the Readiness Score, flagged risks, transferability pressure points, and a three-tier action plan. You leave with a clearer picture of where the business stands today and what will strengthen it next — whether you plan to sell soon or simply want a stronger company.
Common Questions
The Foundations track is $4,997 for businesses with $500K to $1.5M in annual revenue. The Optimization track is $8,997 for businesses with $1.5M to $5M in annual revenue. Both are structured as three milestone-based payments — due at agreement signing, midpoint milestone, and BERR delivery — so you are never paying for work that has not been done.
The tracks are segmented by annual revenue because the complexity of the work scales with the size of the business. Foundations is built for businesses generating $500K to $1.5M. Optimization is built for $1.5M to $5M. The best first step is to take the free assessment — it takes about 15 minutes and gives us both a clear picture of where your business stands before we discuss which track makes sense.
Yes — we serve business owners nationwide. All advisory work is conducted remotely through modular sprints and live strategic sessions. Geography has no bearing on the quality or depth of the engagement.
Foundations engagements are typically completed within 10 to 14 weeks. Optimization engagements are typically completed within 14 to 18 weeks. Exact timing depends on responsiveness, document availability, and how quickly we can move through each sprint and live session milestone. The 30-day and 60-day momentum calls extend the support window beyond the core engagement.
You receive the Business Exit Readiness Report, a prioritized three-tier action plan, and a clearer understanding of where your business is exposed under real diligence. You also receive 30-day and 60-day post-delivery momentum calls to maintain progress, answer questions, and adjust priorities as needed. Many owners use the report to strengthen the business long before a sale, because the same improvements that support a future exit often improve the business now.
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