Eight questions, then one file your attorney can query.
The diagnostic is free. Prep is $400–$600 a month. At close, about 1% is paid by the buyer.
Start the 8-question diagnostic8 questions · ~2 minutes · no credit card
Answer eight questions.
Free, about two minutes. You see the valuation gap and the eight levers before anyone bills an hour.
AI-guided prep.
The same context a $450/hr attorney would gather. The subscription is $400–$600 a month.
A person on the call when you need one.
Most of the work is building your exit context. Add an operator without restarting the hourly gather.
You choose who can query the file.
Attorneys and accountants stop billing hours to collect what you already have.
At close, the buyer pays.
About 1% of the sale. Not a second invoice to you.
The eight questions every diligence file converges on.
Most owners see this list for the first time inside an LOI. You can see it now, and answer it on your terms.
- 01
How dependent is the business on you?
Owner dependency is the first line a buyer reads. It can swing valuation by 30%.
- 02
Where is your customer concentration?
Top-three customers above 30% triggers a holdback. Buyers price that risk directly.
- 03
What share of revenue is recurring?
Contracted, recurring, project-based — the mix moves your multiple by full turns.
- 04
How clean is your margin story?
Add-backs the buyer accepts vs. the ones they strike. The difference is your real EBITDA.
- 05
How is your working capital running?
DSO, DPO, inventory turns. A buyer will reset it on the closing balance sheet either way.
- 06
How documented is the operation?
SOPs, contracts, vendor terms. A QoE finds what you cannot reproduce on paper.
- 07
What does customer acquisition cost?
Channel mix, CAC, payback. Concentration in one channel reads as a single point of failure.
- 08
How does succession actually work?
Second line, handoff plan, earnout structure. The piece that keeps you on after you leave.
57% of business transfers fail to close because of unrealistic seller expectations.
Industry research, owner-led sales
How is this different from a business broker?
A broker is paid to run a sale. Offramp is how you get ready for one. The free diagnostic names your valuation gap and eight levers. Prep is $400–$600 a month: AI-guided work on the file, so the attorneys and accountants you permission can query that context instead of billing hours to gather it. If a sale closes, about 1% of the transaction value is paid by the buyer. We are not your broker.
What if I am not sure about the answers?
Most owners are not, and the diagnostic is designed for that. Questions take ranges, not exact figures, and you can revise as you learn. The first pass is a gap you can see, not a finished data room.
Is my information private?
Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest, kept in a secure account, and never shared with a broker or a buyer unless you ask. You decide which attorneys and accountants can query the file.
What happens after the diagnostic?
You see the valuation gap and the eight levers. From there, prep is $400–$600 a month: AI-guided work to build the file once. The attorneys and accountants you permission query that context instead of reconstructing it on the clock. At close, about 1% of transaction value is paid by the buyer.
Who is this for, and who is it not for?
Offramp is built for owner-operators of businesses with roughly $1M–$10M of EBITDA who want to sell in the next one to five years. We are most useful when you have time to actually move the levers. If you have less than $500K of EBITDA the buyer pool is thin and the math is different; if you are above $25M of EBITDA, you almost certainly already have a banker — use them.
Ask before you start.
Questions about the diagnostic or the prep subscription? Send a note to hello@offramp.to.