The Summit check · free

A buyer will discount something in your company before you ever see the number. See it first.

Why you are here. An offer has arrived, or you can feel one coming, or you simply want to know what the company is worth to someone else. Here is how that works from the other side: a buyer’s team opens about twenty pages in the first hour and prices what they can check. Everything they cannot check, they discount. Everything they find that you did not mention, they discount twice. And if you answer their letter with a number, the negotiation is theirs from that moment on.

Why answer these fourteen questions. Each one is a page a buyer’s team will open in that first hour, or a decision you need made before you reply to anyone. Answer them today and you will know what they will find, what it will cost you, and which three pages to build before the letter is answered. Five minutes. Nothing to upload.

14 questions~5 minutesInstant score, and the three things to build first

For founders who have received an offer, expect one, or want to know their own number before either. Answer for what is on a page today, not what you could produce by Friday.

Illustration: a cairn and a flag on a summit above the cloud line, and a sealed letter weighted by a stone on the rock beside it. — The letter arrives on a Tuesday. What you are paid for the company is decided by what is already on the page when it does.

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Your score, how a buyer’s team will read the company today, your three weakest pages and what each one costs you, and what to do next.

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Summit readiness ·

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How the buyer will read you

Build these three first

Your three weakest answers, in the order to fix them. Each one is a question a buyer’s team will ask in the first hour, and the page that answers it before they do.

What to do with this

Four ways forward. Pick the one that fits your gap.

The free check told you what is missing. The Buyer’s Read is me reading your file the way a buyer’s team will, before they do. The Re-Rate 180 is the six months run alongside you, from your own number to the wire. The book is for doing it yourself.

01 · Done

The free check

Free

Your score, your three weakest pages, and how a buyer’s team will read you today. Keep it. It is your before picture.

02 · The no-brainer

The Buyer’s Read

$2,500 flat

You send the file as it stands, and any letter you have received, before you reply to anyone. Inside ten business days you get a written read: the twenty pages of a buyer’s first hour opened on your company, every discount they would take named with the page that removes it, your earnings four ways, and the terms you have been offered or should expect, scored. Then two working sessions, two weeks apart. The first to decide what you fix. The second to read what you fixed and set your number.

Outcome

every discount a buyer would take, found and removed or disclosed on your terms, before they look.

Odds

a company priced as what it has become, not as what a stranger could not check.

Time

the written read in ten business days; the whole thing in five weeks.

Cost

$2,500, flat. One discount a buyer takes in the first hour is worth more than that, on any company worth selling.

Mutual NDA both directions before I open anything; engagement terms accepted at checkout
Never a percentage of the transaction, never a success fee; we do not sell companies or find buyers
The Summit™ and its fourteen templates included

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03 · When the letter is real

The Re-Rate 180

Engagement scoped to the company

The six months of a sale, run alongside you. It starts before any letter is answered, with the two pages that must exist first: your own price, adopted by your board, and the buyer’s first hour run on your own file. Then the calendar, the data room, the diligence sessions and the terms, with you owning four tasks or fewer.

Your number and the first hour before any reply; the room and the sessions after it
Every offer scored on the nine terms; what is settled before exclusivity; the cash that actually lands
No letter yet? It is the six months that put every door on your side of the table first

How it starts →

Scoped after the Buyer’s Read, which tells us both whether the six months are the right next step.

04 · Do it yourself

The Summit™ book and workbook

$499

Twenty-four chapters, one company walked from the morning a letter arrives to the morning after the wire, and fourteen live spreadsheet templates, one for every line you were just scored on: the letter log and the two replies, the buyer’s first hour, your earnings four ways, your own price, the nine terms, the working-capital adjustment, what lands in your account. Included free with the Buyer’s Read.

Every chapter ends with three things to do this week
The worked example filled in, so you see each page done before you do yours
PDF and Excel, instant download

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Read Part I free → · Print the Nine Terms card →

Flat fees only — never a percentage of the transaction, never a success fee, never a commission. Scalewrights is an advisory firm, not a broker-dealer, investment adviser, placement agent, business broker, or law or accounting firm; we do not sell companies, find buyers, or take a share of the price. The check, the book, the Buyer’s Read, and the Re-Rate 180 are educational and directional guidance — not a valuation, a fairness opinion, or legal, tax, or investment advice. The strike is your number, not an appraisal. Use counsel for the agreement and an accountant for the numbers.