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For business brokers, M&A advisors, and transaction professionals

Help the right seller become ready before the market tests the gaps.

A buyer process can expose personal, financial, family, and team issues that a valuation or CIM was never designed to resolve. Morrowgate helps organize those issues without stepping into your transaction role.

The cost of a seller who is not ready

A strong listing can still lose momentum when the owner's decision picture is incomplete.

Price becomes the only language

The owner has not defined required net proceeds, post-close income, family priorities, or the role they will accept after closing.

Personal questions surface in diligence

Tax residence, concentrated wealth, estate planning, family fairness, and life after ownership arrive late and under pressure.

Commitment becomes unstable

When the owner cannot connect deal terms to a defensible personal outcome, hesitation can appear as a transaction problem.

The Seller Readiness Screen

One concise decision map for the issues outside the deal book.

The screen is designed to reveal planning gaps early enough for the owner and existing advisors to address them.

Owner outcome

What the transaction must make possible for spending, independence, family, and the next chapter.

Liquidity reality

How debt, costs, tax assumptions, contingent value, and retained equity may affect usable capital.

Personal readiness

Whether the owner is emotionally and practically prepared for the role, timing, and identity shift.

Advisor alignment

Which questions belong with the transaction team, CPA, attorney, valuation professional, and planning relationship.

What it is—and what it is not

Support the owner without confusing the professional roles.

It is

An independent owner-outcome and readiness screen.
A way to identify questions before urgency controls the sequence.
A coordination map that respects the owner's existing professionals.
A concise written summary the owner can use in the next conversation.

It is not

A valuation, quality-of-earnings report, or sell-side mandate.
Tax, legal, accounting, investment-banking, or brokerage advice.
A competing claim on the transaction relationship.
A predetermined recommendation to sell, hold, or choose a buyer.

No compensation moves in either direction.

Morrowgate does not pay transaction professionals for introductions and does not accept referral fees from them. No fee is tied to a sale closing, transaction value, or selected buyer.

How it runs

Three steps. One useful handoff.

01
Confirm fit
A short professional conversation establishes the owner situation, what is already in motion, and whether the screen would be useful.
02
Screen the owner decision
Morrowgate organizes the business, personal, family, and post-transition questions without requesting sensitive diligence materials through the website.
03
Return the right issues to the right professionals
The owner receives a written decision map, and any transaction questions stay with the transaction professional.

Where this fits best

The owner is credible. The business may be marketable. The personal decision is not yet organized.

A first-time seller with most personal wealth concentrated in the company.
An unsolicited approach created a timeline before the owner created a plan.
The owner wants a number but has not defined what “enough” means.
Family, management, rollover equity, or a continuing role complicates the decision.
A transaction team needs the owner to resolve issues that sit outside its mandate.

See the deliverable first

Review the sample Seller Readiness Screen.

The ungated sample shows the structure of the screen, the questions it organizes, and the boundaries of the work. It uses a fictional composite owner and contains no client information.

PDF · Ungated educational sampleOpen the sample readiness screen↗

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