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Buyers Are Paying Record Prices for Businesses Like Yours.Then They Cut Millions in Diligence.

You’ve done thousands of inspections. When you sell, the buyer inspects you. About half the deals that reach diligence never close. Find out what they’ll find in your business, before it costs you.

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How It Works

Your Ready-to-Sell Score in three minutes.

1

Answer 11 quick questions

About your business: your techs, your books, your contracts. Three minutes, right on your phone.

2

See your score, 0 to 100

Instantly, like checking your credit score, plus the tier you fall into.

3

Get your weak spots

What they are and what they could cost you at closing, in plain English, in your inbox.

The Part Nobody Tells You

Every business sells for two prices.

The one in the offer letter, and the one that actually hits your bank account. The buyer’s inspection is the difference.

Price #1: The Offer
$15,000,000

The number the buyer says at dinner. The one you tell your spouse. The one you start planning retirement around.

Price #2: After Their Inspection
$12,400,000

After they find the 1099 techs, the handshake contracts, the personal truck on the books, and the license in your name. Take it or leave it, four months in and worn down.

There are seven preventable problems that do this to trades owners. When buyers find them, the price usually drops 5% to 15%, and about half of deals that reach this stage fall apart completely. Every one is fixable, if you find it first.

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$1.8MCut in diligence
A True Story

He’d already told his wife they were done. Then the buyer’s accountants opened the books.

A plumbing operator with 30+ years in the trade and a roughly $15M business had a signed offer in hand. Great price. Handshake at the country club, the whole thing.

Then the buyer’s inspection started. The extra profit he’d claimed didn’t hold up on paper. His two biggest commercial accounts were on expired contracts. Half his techs were 1099s who worked like employees. Each finding gave the buyer a new reason to cut the price.

The cuts came to $1.8M. Not because his business was bad, it was excellent, but because nobody looked before the buyer did. Every one of those items could have been fixed for a fraction of that, with time.

Details anonymized. Based on the situations we see across home-services transactions.

A Word About “Partnership”

Getting friendly calls about “partnering” with a bigger group?

That’s a buyer. “Partnership” is the word they use because it sounds better than “we want to buy your company.” But there’s still a purchase agreement. Still money held back. Still fine print that decides what you actually take home, and what follows you home after.

They bring a team of lawyers and accountants who do this every month. Most owners bring their CPA and a business attorney who has never sold a company. That gap is where the millions move.

Before you return that call, know your score.

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The Ready-to-Sell Score

Know exactly where you stand, in 3 minutes.

11 questions, built around the seven problems that quietly kill trades sales. Answer honestly and you get a number from 0 to 100, like a credit score for selling your business.

“If you took a 30-day vacation tomorrow, what would happen to the business?”

Buyers check this

“How many of your techs are 1099 contractors?”

Buyers check this

“Is the contractor’s license in your personal name?”

Buyers check this

Those are three of the eleven. If you just winced at one of them, that’s exactly why the score exists.

1

Your score, 0 to 100

On screen the second you finish, and in your inbox within 60 seconds.

2

Your weak spots, in plain English

What’s behind each one and what fixing it looks like. Written for an operator, not a lawyer.

3

What they could cost you

A dollar estimate of what these problems typically take off the price at closing.

Then, if you’d like: a free 30-minute call with our team to walk through your results. Not a sales pitch, a working session. You’ll leave knowing your three biggest problems and what order to fix them in, whether you hire us or not.

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Why Now

This market won’t wait for you to be ready.

Trades businesses are selling at prices nobody thought possible ten years ago. But buying sprees like this don’t last forever, and they reward the owners who move first.

$50B+

in committed private equity capital is chasing HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and roofing businesses right now.

First in, best price

Platforms pay top dollar for the first quality shop in a region. Once they’ve bought your competitor, you’re negotiating with the only buyer left in town.

12–24 months

is what proper preparation takes. Owners who start only once the buyer calls are already at a disadvantage.

The most expensive sentence in the trades: “I’ll get to it when I’m ready to sell.” By then, the fixes that take 18 months have to happen in 45 days, under the buyer’s microscope, with your bargaining power gone.

Your Ready-to-Sell Score shows you which of the seven problems you have, and which to fix first, so 12–24 months of runway is enough.

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The CGL Team

A deal team with $5B+ in closed transactions. No salespeople.

Your free consult is with the CGL deal team, led by founding partners Hannah Genton and Noam Cohen. A women-owned firm whose attorneys bring decades of collective experience getting owners like you to closing.

Hannah Genton, Founding Partner

Hannah Genton

Founding Partner

Advises owners and executive teams on M&A and major transactions. Big-firm trained (Cooley); leads a senior team with $5B+ in collective deal experience.

Noam Cohen, Founding Partner

Noam Cohen

Founding Partner & Managing Partner

Advises business owners on sales, acquisitions, and complex transactions. Big-firm trained (Goodwin); known for practical, business-first counsel that gets deals closed.

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Recent CGL deals

$45M

Manufacturer sale to private equity

$15M

Software company sale

$10M

Home-services acquisition

A few of the 300+ transactions our team has closed. Client details confidential.

Quick Answers

Questions owners ask us.

Is this really free?

Yes. Your score, your results, and the 30-minute call are all free, and your information stays private. If you decide you want CGL’s help preparing for a sale, that’s a separate conversation, and we’ll be upfront about what the work involves and what it costs before you commit to anything.

How long does it take?

About 3 minutes. 11 questions, multiple choice, works on your phone. You’ll spend longer deciding what to have for lunch.

What if I’m already talking to a buyer?

Then get your score today, before you sign anything. Once you sign the buyer’s offer letter, most of your bargaining power is gone. If a buyer is already at the table, skip ahead and book the free call right away.

What if I’m not selling for years?

You’re exactly who this is for. The owners who walk away with the most money start preparing 12–24 months out. Knowing your score now means you fix things on your timeline, not under a buyer’s deadline.

Why is a law firm giving this away?

Some owners who get their score will want our help fixing what it finds. That’s the whole business model. No tricks, just a useful tool and an open door.

Don’t let the last 90 days undo 30 years of work.

Whatever retirement number you have in your head, the buyer’s inspection decides whether you keep it. Find out what they’ll find. Free, 3 minutes, right now.

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