For owners of established, growing companies
Build a Company Worth More Without You in the Room
We install the operating system that makes your company more valuable, less dependent on you, and ready for whatever comes next: growth, succession, or sale.
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Sound familiar?
You built something real. Now it needs you too much.
Everything still runs through me.
I don't know what my company is really worth.
We grew, but my time and margin did not.
I want an exit option, not an exit emergency.
Two companies with the same earnings can sell for very different prices. The difference is how healthy and transferable the business is. That difference is your Value Gap, and it can be measured.
What we do
Grow it. Lead it. Exit it.
Grow it
Systems that produce more revenue without adding more of you. Sales, marketing and operations that run on rhythm, not on your energy.
Lead it
A certified coach in your corner and a leadership team that can carry the weight. You set direction. They run the plays.
Exit it
Build equity and transferability now, so when the day comes to pass it on, sell, or step back, you choose the terms.
The 10 Engines
Every business runs on 10 engines
Each engine counts for 10% of your health score, and your health score drives the multiple a buyer will pay. Strong engines run without you. Weak ones run through you, and that costs real money.
Every point matters. In a sample company, raising one engine by 2 points lifted the health score 2%, the multiple by 0.12x, and the value by about $180,000.
01
Strategic Foundation
Does everyone know where the company is going, and why?
02
Leadership Effectiveness
Can your leaders lead without you in the room?
03
Sales System
Would revenue keep closing if you stopped selling?
04
Marketing System
Do qualified buyers find you, or do you go find them?
05
People System
Do you have the right people in the right seats?
06
Operating System
Is the work done the same good way every time?
07
Financial System
Do you know your numbers, and could a buyer trust them?
08
Legal Foundation
Is the business protected, and is it transferable?
09
Culture Health
Would your best people stay if a competitor called?
10
Innovation Readiness
Is the business getting better, or getting older?
How it works
From a guess to a measured number
01
Take the Owner Score
A few quick questions, about three minutes. You see where you stand on the 10 engines today.
02
Get your Valuation Gap Report
Your health score, your weakest engines, and an estimated value range, delivered right away.
03
Sit down for a Value Gap Review
A private 90 minute session with a Certified Value Engines Facilitator, built from your real numbers.
04
Work the engines with a coach
A Summit Group coach walks with you engine by engine, with the Value Engines platform measuring progress.
The platform
Measured, not guessed
Owners tend to score themselves high, because they are often the reason an engine works at all. The Enterprise Valuation Assessment Platform uses your own financials and your industry multiple, and it measures progress at the start, at six months and at twelve months.
The Value Gap Review
90 minutes that show you what your company is really worth
Each Review is prepared by hand from your numbers, so we take a limited number of owners each month. For qualified owners there is no charge.
You walk away with
- Your Enterprise Value Report
- Your Value Gap: what it could be worth, and the dollar difference
- Your top 3 leaks, ranked by what they cost you
- A 90 day roadmap you can start on Monday
What we ask of you
- Verified annual revenue (most owners we serve are around $5 million and up, but it is not a hard line)
- Complete the 50 question Value Engines assessment (about 15 minutes)
- Two years of financials or a QuickBooks connection, kept confidential
- Bring the decision maker, camera on, for 90 minutes
Apply for a Review
Takes about two minutes. We reply within two business days.
Our founder
Benjamin Stewart
Business Coach | Enterprise Value Strategist
Ben has coached organizations from small businesses to billion dollar enterprises. He built Summit Group Strategies and architected Value Engines, the framework our coaches use to measure and grow what a company is worth.
A man's greatest legacy starts in his home.Read Ben's story
For coaches
Called to coach? Come home to it.
Summit Group is raising up men who have led something significant and want purpose, provision and time back at home. We bring the system, the tools, the brotherhood and the clients.