Why it matters
Most technology due diligence is a risk hunt. When an acquirer’s team goes in, they look for the things that let them argue the price down: technical debt, security gaps, key-person risk, unclear IP ownership, change-of-control clauses. What they find, they use.
Readiness is not reactive. By the time an offer arrives it is too late to tidy up, and the issues surface in diligence at the worst possible moment. The businesses that command the strongest multiples are the ones that could survive diligence today.
ExitReady puts you on the other side of that process: you see what a buyer would see, and you get the runway to fix it.
What you get
From a free snapshot to a board-ready plan
- Overall readiness score
- A domain-by-domain heatmap
- How many critical deal-killer issues were detected
- Every deal-killer in full: what a buyer does with it and how to fix it
- Your top valuation risks, framed as a buyer’s diligence would use them on price
- A prioritised remediation roadmap sequenced against your exit timeline, with effort and owners
- A technology equity story that reinforces what your advisers take to market
How it works
Three steps
Complete the assessment
A structured questionnaire across the ten domains an acquirer scrutinises, in minutes.
See your score
An immediate readiness score, heatmap and deal-killer count, free.
Unlock your report
The full board-ready report and your prioritised plan to close the gaps before you go to market.
What we assess
The assessment mirrors the domains an acquirer’s technology due diligence actually examines:
The deal-killers, the binary issues that retrade or collapse deals regardless of everything else, are surfaced on their own.
Why it’s credible
ExitReady is built on how acquirers actually run technology diligence: the same lens, the same questions, the same things that move a price. It is a product of Intology, a technology transformation consultancy.
The point is repeatability: not one person’s opinion on the day, but a structured, consistent assessment you can run early, act on, and re-run as you close the gaps.
The economics
On a £20m deal, a single turn shaved off the multiple is real money, and technology issues are exactly what buyers use to argue for it. A change-of-control clause or an IP-ownership gap missed until late diligence can cost far more, or the deal itself.
Set against that, readiness is inexpensive insurance. The report is £2,500; the value it protects is measured in multiples.
FAQ
You can’t fix in diligence what you didn’t prepare for. See where you stand today: free, in minutes.