A model is not an offer.
A valuation is an opinion under a defined purpose, date and set of assumptions. A buyer still has to accept the economics. Otherwise, competition has to force them to.
Enterprise value creation and exit readiness
Create a business that is worth more to buyers and investors, and less dependent on you.
Increase its value. Strengthen its transferability. Prepare it for investment, succession or sale.
London · New York · TorontoDiscreetly serving North America and Europe
The unassigned responsibility
The most important job in your business has probably never been assigned.
Your accountant accounts. Your lawyer protects. Your management team operates. Your adviser transacts. Every one of them may be excellent.
Nobody may own the creation of a valuable, transferable business before a buyer appears.
That is the work STRATIGeX owns.01Attack the substitution.
The STRATIGeX philosophy
Attack the substitution.
Not the profession.
The professional-services market divides the founder’s problem into assignments. The founder eventually experiences one indivisible outcome.
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A valuation is not value.
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EBITDA is not cash.
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Growth is not value creation.
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An indispensable founder is a transfer risk.
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A sale process cannot manufacture history.
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A strategic buyer does not owe you its synergies.
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Headline price is not realised value.
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Diligence exposes unsupported stories.
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A data room is not a transformation.
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The market does not reimburse sacrifice.
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What the market confuses
Most value leakage begins with a substitution that sounds reasonable.
A larger problem is not a better business.
Growth creates value only when it strengthens cash, returns, resilience or strategic advantage after accounting for what it consumes.
Your customers may love you. The buyer will discount you.
If judgment, relationships and commercial momentum remain personal, the buyer acquires dependence rather than control.
A data room is not a transformation.
Documents can prove operating change. They cannot substitute for management independence, clean economics or evidence accumulated over time.
Everybody around the founder can be competent, honest and successful.
and the founder can still lose millions because the most important job was never assigned.
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The missing work
We change the business before anyone has a reason to make it look good.
STRATIGeX works upstream of the transaction. We coordinate with excellent accounting, tax, legal and deal specialists; we do not pretend their assignments are ours.
Identify the acquisition object
Define what a buyer could actually control: an earnings engine, strategic advantage, customer position, capability or option.
Repair the economics
Connect growth to margin, cash conversion, working capital and required reinvestment. Remove the leakage hidden by scale.
Transfer the engine
Move relationships, authority, knowledge and judgment from the founder into management and the institution.
Build the evidence
Create a defensible line from customer behaviour and operating performance to earnings, cash and forecast credibility.
Match the right buyer
Develop buyer-specific theses and position the asset for the owner able to preserve and compound what has been built.
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Evidence before assertion
Confidence is not evidence.
Our work starts with what can be reconciled, observed and transferred. It does not start with the multiple an owner hopes to receive.
Over 1,000Founders and CEOs advised
More than 100Acquisition opportunities reviewed
20+ yearsIn strategy, value creation and turnaround
Cross-borderNorth American and European perspective
The STRATIGeX paper
What Buyers Actually Buy
A buyer does not buy your effort, your valuation or the future you can describe. A buyer acquires an economic engine it believes can endure, convert and transfer.
01 Durability02 Convertibility03 Transferability
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The owner assessment
Would the business survive without your explanation?
Ten questions. A directional result. No valuation theatre. Answer as though a sceptical buyer must verify every claim.
2 minutesScore out of 20Confidential
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Wherever you are now
Build an asset worth owning, whether you sell it or not.
Considering a sale now
Establish what is real, what is exposed and what can still be protected before urgency becomes the buyer’s leverage.
Assess the position →Exiting in one to three years
Use the runway to change operating facts, build history and create credible alternatives before a transaction begins.
Build the advantage →Growing before deciding
Strengthen economics, management and strategic usefulness so that retaining, selling or raising capital all remain viable.
Create optionality →A confidential first conversation
What survives,
transfers and compounds
without you?
We will give you a clear view of the acquisition object, the evidence and the value leakage. We will not pretend a conversation is a valuation.
Business value growth and exit readiness
One firm. The markets that matter.
STRATIGeX helps founder led businesses strengthen enterprise value, reduce buyer risk and prepare for sale, succession or strategic investment. We work before transaction urgency begins and coordinate with qualified accounting, tax, legal and M&A specialists when their expertise is required.
North America
New York · Boston · Chicago · Miami and South Florida · Dallas · Houston · San Francisco and the Bay Area · Los Angeles · Minneapolis · Toronto · Montreal · Vancouver
Europe
London and the United Kingdom · France · Germany
Core work
Enterprise value creation · Exit readiness · Founder dependency reduction · Cash conversion · Management independence · Buyer evidence