Before you commit to the exit timetable, find what the buyer’s second week will find
The Exit Readiness Read is the pre-exit instrument, run twelve to eighteen months before the window. It reads the holding the way a buyer’s diligence will, from the customer’s side of the screen first, and finds the constraint an exit story cannot carry before a buyer’s team does. An exit story a buyer’s diligence takes apart in the second week costs more than the read that would have caught it.
What the house receives
A marked-up equity story: which claims stand as Observed, which are Inferred, which are Hypothesised and need the window to become evidence. A sequenced plan for the window: what to fix, what to stop claiming, what to leave alone. Three weeks.
What the house gets, and what it does not
Fixed fee, stated in writing before instruction; scope adjusts to the target and the access available, the price does not adjust to the deal, the timetable or the answer. No execution: Barking Cat does not implement, build, deliver, select vendors on commission or place people, and is never in a delivery partner’s payment chain. No contingent reward: no success fee, no fee linked to valuation or exit, no equity, no carry, no referral arrangement in either direction. One side of a deal, conflicts checked before instruction. Disclosure register shared with every engagement. Reports addressed to the instructing house, the party entitled to rely on them. Nothing about a target, a holding or a house appears in published work without per-instance written agreement.
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