Hand over a business that runs without you.
Buyers price founder dependence with earnouts and long transitions. In 30 days, and three hours of your time, we turn what lives in your head into runbooks, an internal copilot and a dated founder-hours ledger your buyer can check.
For founders selling on acquire.com & Flippa, and the owners who take over.
One install. Three things your buyer can check.
We don’t build features. We install the operating layer that lets a software business change hands without its founder: written for the people who stay, logged so a buyer can check it, and done in three recorded hours of your time.
The runbooks
Three screen-recorded walkthroughs become the operating manual: every recurring task, who does it, where it lives. Written for your team and your buyer, not for you.
The copilot
An internal assistant trained on your docs and ticket history answers the routine questions and routes the hard ones to a named person who isn’t the founder. Every answer is logged.
The proof
A dated before-and-after log of your hours in support, demos and operations, plus an access map of every account and who owns it. Buyers don’t credit the claim that it runs without you. They credit the record.
Work comes off you. Nothing a buyer prices changes.
During your sale we change nothing a buyer prices: no pricing, no staff, no spend cuts, no product changes. We move work off you, not costs off the P&L.
Buyers read a mid-sale cost cut as window dressing and price it back out. They read founder dependence as risk and price it with structure: earnouts, holdbacks, longer transitions. The install touches the second and leaves the first alone.
The margin math, for when the clock allows.
A saving counts once it has sat in your books for a clean quarter. If you are a quarter or more from listing, or you have just taken over, the margin install is the one to start with. The worked model: a conversation-intelligence SaaS at seven-figure ARR with a healthy product and a cost base that scales with revenue.
| Lever | Annual savings | Margin impact | Install time |
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| AI support deflectionchatbot · onboarding flows · ticket triage | +$120–280K | +12–28 pts | 4–8 wks |
| Smart model routingpre-classification · tiered model dispatch | +$30–60K | +3–6 pts | 2–4 wks |
| Self-hosted inferenceopen models on dedicated GPUs · batch queues | +$100–150K | +10–15 pts | 8–12 wks |
| Combined | +$250–490K | +25–49 pts |
A 12%-margin business becomes a 37–61%-margin business. Started a quarter before listing, the savings are in the books buyers price.
All figures are illustrative models built from public industry benchmarks and marketplace listing data: not any specific company’s financials, and not client results. Outcomes depend on your cost structure, volume, and implementation. Real case studies are published as engagements close, with permission.
Read. Install. Hand off.
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The Handoff Map
Send a website address and an email. In 48 hours, in writing: what a buyer’s first pass will price into your transition, built from your public footprint, with nothing asked of you. If there is nothing a buyer would price, the map says so: list as-is.
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The install
30 days, three recorded hours of your time. The runbooks, the copilot, the access map, the founder-hours ledger. We change nothing a buyer prices. If the logs don’t show your hours down by half, you owe nothing.
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The handoff
A two-week transition plan your buyer can accept instead of your calendar, and 30 days of support for the new owner on the stack. Pay now or at close. We install for three businesses per quarter.
We’re not a dev agency, and we don’t build features. We install the operating layer that lets a software business change hands without its founder, whether you’re selling it, buying it, or keeping it.
One install. One price. Paid when you are.
The 30-Day Handoff Install. Thirty days and three recorded hours of your time. Start with the free Handoff Map; the price is here so there is nothing to find out on a call.
You get
- The runbooksEvery recurring task written down from three recorded walkthroughs, for the people who stay.
- The copilotTrained on your docs and ticket history; routine questions answered, hard ones routed to someone who isn’t you.
- The access mapEvery account, who owns it, and how it transfers.
- The founder-hours ledgerA dated before-and-after record of your hours. The evidence a buyer actually credits.
- The transition planA two-week handoff your buyer can accept instead of your calendar.
Bonuses
- Do-not-touch listWhat we won’t change during your sale, and why, in writing.
- Diligence indexWhere every answer lives, mapped to a standard software diligence checklist.
- Buyer support30 days of support for the new owner on the stack, after close.
No close within six months? You pay $15,000, the same as paying now.
If 30 days of logs don’t show your hours in support and operations down by half, you owe nothing. The kit is still yours.
You record the three walkthroughs and route tickets to the copilot; we do the rest.
For software businesses asking $500K or more.
We install for three businesses per quarter.
What an install looks like.
Three businesses shaped like real marketplace listings, each with one install worked end to end: the before, the build, what broke, and what it changed at the table. Illustrative examples, not clients.
The offer that priced 12 years at 4× profit
A 12-year-old fulfillment platform at a 5% margin, a first offer at 4× profit, and an earnout chaining the founder to the support desk. One install, 30 days, 3 hours of his time, paid at close.
Read the case →The order queue only 2 people could clear
11 links quietly flipped to nofollow, found by a client before the marketplace. A verifier that checks every placement at delivery and every week after.
Read the case →The bid that died on page 41
A winnable government bid, rejected unread over 1 form on page 41. A matrix that turns every “shall” into a row, and won’t let a bid go final with an empty one.
Read the case →Find out what a buyer will price into your handoff before the buyer does.
If the read finds nothing a buyer would price into your transition, we say so in writing: list as-is. The map is still yours.