Maximize Your Business Value, Profits, and Exit Readiness
Build A Stronger, More Profitable Business
Your business may be one of your largest and most important assets, but many business owners don’t fully understand what is strengthening or limiting its long-term value, transferability, and independence from the owner.
Chatterton Business Solutions helps business owners evaluate the operational, financial, and strategic factors that influence business value, continuity, profitability, and future options. Through structured assessments and advisory planning, we help identify opportunities, uncover potential risks, and create a clearer roadmap for long-term business strength and owner freedom. Members of our team hold the following certifications and designations to help support business owners’ needs.
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Start with a Business Value & Transferability Review
Before improving business value, it’s important to understand what might be helping or hurting your business today.
Chatterton’s Business Value & Transferability Review helps business owners identify potential gaps related to profitability, transferability, owner dependence, continuity, and exit readiness.
The process is designed to uncover risks and opportunities while there is still time to improve future outcomes for your business, your team, and your family.
What’s Included in the Review
As part of the Business Value & Transferability Review, we use several structured assessments to help evaluate different areas of the business and owner readiness.
Business value drivers and potential value gaps
Areas where the business may rely too heavily on the owner
Transferability and continuity risks
Operational and financial blind spots
Prioritized next steps for strengthening long-term value
PreScore™
To know your readiness to exit
Most business owners focus on financial value but forget about personal readiness. PREScore™ (Personal Readiness to Exit Score) helps you evaluate whether you’re financially, emotionally, and strategically prepared for a transition.
Freedom Score
To achieve financial independence
How much money do you need to achieve financial freedom? The Freedom Score helps you understand if your business is positioned to fund your ideal lifestyle, whether you sell now or later.
Value Builder Score
To increase long-term value of your company
The Value Builder Assessment provides a clear picture of your company’s strengths and weaknesses, which can help you make informed decisions that increase long-term value.
Transfer Confidence
To gauge your business’s transition readiness
The Transfer Confidence Questionnaire helps you identify strengths and potential gaps in your business’s continuity, transferability, and long-term value.
Continuity & Legacy Risk
To understand your readiness for an unexpected transition
The Continuity & Legacy Risk Questionnaire assesses the risks that could impact your business if you were suddenly unable to lead it, and the strength of your legacy planning.
Work with Chatterton Business Solutions
Every assessment and coaching plan is customized to your business, using systems like Value Builder and Profit First.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is business value building?
Business value building is the process of strengthening the factors that make your company more profitable, transferable, and attractive to future buyers or successors. It’s about creating a business that can thrive independently of the owner while increasing long-term value and flexibility. Chatterton Business Solutions uses structured assessments and advisory planning to help identify opportunities for sustainable growth and stronger business value.
Why should I focus on increasing my business's value if I'm not planning to sell?
Building business value isn’t just for owners preparing to sell. A stronger business typically has healthier cash flow, more efficient operations, reduced owner dependence, and greater resilience. Even if you have no immediate plans to exit, improving your company’s value can give you more options for the future.
What is included in the Business Value & Transferability Review?
The review evaluates several factors that influence your company’s long-term success, including business value drivers, owner dependence, transferability, continuity risks, operational blind spots, and financial opportunities. You’ll receive prioritized recommendations to help strengthen your business over time.
What is the Value Builder Score?
The Value Builder Score is an assessment that measures the key drivers influencing your company’s long-term value. It helps identify your business’s strengths, uncover areas for improvement, and provide a roadmap for increasing profitability, scalability, and transferability.
What does "owner dependence" mean?
Owner dependence refers to how much your business relies on you for its daily operations, customer relationships, and decision-making. Businesses that can operate successfully without constant owner involvement are often better positioned for growth, continuity, and future transition opportunities.
What is transferability, and why is it important?
Transferability measures how easily your business could be sold, passed to family members, or transitioned to new leadership. A transferable business has documented systems, capable leadership, consistent financial performance, and reduced reliance on a single individual, making future transitions smoother and more valuable.
How can business value building help me prepare for an eventual exit?
Even if your exit is years away, early planning gives you more time to improve profitability, strengthen operations, reduce risk, and increase the overall value of your company. Chatterton also evaluates your personal readiness through tools like the PREScore™ and helps you understand whether your business can support your long-term financial goals.
How is business value building different from a business valuation?
A business valuation estimates what your company may be worth today. Business value building focuses on improving the underlying drivers that influence that value over time. Many business owners use value-building strategies before obtaining or updating a formal valuation to maximize future opportunities.
Prepare Your Business for What Comes Next
Don’t leave your business’s future to chance. Whether you want to grow, improve profits, or prepare for a sale, the right assessment is your first step.
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