The Exit Readiness Read

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 taken apart in the second week of a buyer’s diligence 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 does not earn from the build. 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, with conflicts checked before instruction. A disclosure register is shared with every engagement. Reports are addressed to the instructing house, which is 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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