What is your company worth to a buyer?
Answer ten short questions. An experienced M&A adviser checks your numbers against recent UK deals and emails you a value range within one working day.
Free for owners, and you never have to name your company. We act only for owners, never for buyers.
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What does your business do?
Free and without obligation. Your answers travel over an encrypted connection, stay with us and are never sent to buyers.
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From first question to the right adviser
No documents and no obligation. After each step you decide whether to go further, and you can stop at any point.
Tell us about the business
Sector, size, profit and a few questions on customers and how much the business depends on you. No documents, no company name.
An adviser checks the numbers
They compare your answers with recent UK deals in your sector and size band and adjust for what a buyer would question.
You get a range, and a choice
Your value range arrives by email. If you want to go further, we introduce two or three advisers who sell companies like yours.
A range you can plan with
You get an enterprise value range, the multiple behind it and the factors that move your price most. It shows what you could expect today and what is worth fixing before you go to market.
Start my free valuation£2.5m to £3.4m
Enterprise value, 4.0x to 5.5x EBITDA
- Largest customer 31% of salesLowers the price
- Owner still wins most new workLowers the price
- Five-year framework contractsRaises the price
Illustrative example. Your range depends on your own answers.
Size changes the multiple more than most owners expect
In the second half of 2025, UK companies with £200,000 of profit sold for about 3.3 times EBITDA. Companies with £10m of profit sold for about 8.4 times. The average across the market was 5.4 times.
Source: Dealsuite UK&I M&A Monitor, February 2026. Companies with £1m to £200m revenue.
The right adviser is rarely the best known one
A £4m engineering business rarely gets senior attention at a firm whose last ten deals were above £50m. So we look at what each firm has actually sold, at what size, and who on their team did the work.
Every proposal you receive gets compared on the same points: track record, access to buyers, the people on the deal, fees and the engagement letter. And if waiting a year or fixing a dependency on you would get you a better price, we will tell you that too.
What an adviser will cost you
UK advisers usually charge a retainer and a success fee on completion. These are the ranges we see. You agree the fee directly with the adviser you choose, and our introduction costs you nothing.
How to compare adviser fees- Success fee, smaller companies
- 3% to 10%
- Success fee, deals of £10m to £20m
- 2% to 3.5%
- Retainer, ideally credited against the success fee
- A few thousand pounds to £50,000+
- Our introduction
- £0 for owners
Indicative ranges. Most proposals add a minimum fee, and the percentage usually falls as the price rises. Check whether figures are quoted before or after VAT.
Wherever you are with the idea
I want to know what it's worth
A free, adviser-checked value range in one working day.
Get a valuationI'm ready to talk to an adviser
Two or three vetted UK advisers who sell companies of your size and sector.
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Plain guides on value, tax, buyers and the sale process.
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Questions owners ask first
More answers on fees, tax and timing in our full FAQ.
Do I need an adviser at all?
Not necessarily, and the decision is yours. Some owners sell to a buyer they already know with a good lawyer and accountant. An adviser earns their fee when you want several buyers competing, need to stay anonymous at the start, or have no time to run a process alongside the business.
Is it really free?
Yes, for owners. If you choose to work with an adviser we introduced, the adviser pays us a fee out of their own income. Your fee with them is agreed between you and them.
Do I have to give the name of my company?
No. The valuation asks for sector, size, profit and a few quality points. Your company name is only needed if you later ask us to introduce an adviser, and only with your agreement.
How accurate is the valuation?
It is a range, not a formal valuation. An adviser checks your answers against recent deal multiples for your sector and size, so the range reflects what buyers have actually paid.
Will my staff, customers or competitors find out?
No. Nothing is shared without your say-so, and advisers we work with approach buyers on an anonymous basis until a non-disclosure agreement is signed.
I am not ready to sell. Is it too early?
Most owners start two to three years before a sale. A value range now shows what to improve, and many of the changes that raise the price take time to show in the accounts.
Know your number before anyone makes you an offer.
About three minutes. An adviser reviews every range before it is sent.
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