# The Exit Readiness Read

> Twelve to eighteen months before exit, the ecommerce diligence a buyer will run, run first. A marked-up equity story and a sequenced plan for the window. Three weeks, fixed fee.

Source: https://barkingcat.ai/investors/exit-readiness-read/

## For Investors · Instrument

The buyer’s ecommerce diligence rehearsed before a buyer runs it.

## 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](https://barkingcat.ai/independent/). 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.

## Name one target or one holding.A fixed fee, in writing, within two working days.

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## Contact

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