PeakRatio measures how much of the business still runs through you, then closes the gap. Worth more, and you're not trapped running it.
What the business produces, against how much of you it consumes. That one number decides whether you can step back, borrow well, scale, or sell. We read it across eight areas, from your documents rather than your own answers, and score each one against the same standard. What you do next follows from the number.
A structured read across the eight areas that decide what your business is worth and how much it leans on you. You get your score, what is dragging it, and the moves that shift it most, in the order to do them. If it does not tell you something you did not already know, you do not pay for it. See exactly what that buys, and what it can’t tell you →
Most owner-led businesses start at Reactive or Stability in five or more of the eight. That is the normal starting point, and it is the opportunity.
We work the plan with you, in the order the read ranked it. The numbers start telling the truth early enough to act on, and the business begins to run when you're not in the room.
It runs without you. The risk is out before a buyer ever looks, or you simply step back and let it turn. Light-touch advisory to keep it there.
Real engagements, result first. Each one maps to a stage.
The owner bought without diligence. We did it, fixed the operation, and reached roughly £100k profit in about five months.
Read the case study →Hundreds of post-deal procedures still named the old systems. AI flagged every stale one and its owner in a fifth of the time. People kept the decisions.
Read the case study →A fragile process living in two spreadsheets, rebuilt into one controlled system that now runs high-value change independently of the people who built it.
Read the case study →A specialist oil-and-gas fabrication business the market had moved past. We overhauled how it bid and rebuilt relationships, then told the owner to stop investing.
Read the case study →A year on from the deal, two businesses were still running as two. Decisions nobody owned, changes never finished, and the operational work that closes the gap.
Read the case study →Every change spawned a new cost centre until nobody could see the real position. We simplified the structure and installed a reporting rhythm.
Read the case study →Months of senior effort had stalled on an initiative nobody could explain. Reading the document nobody had read surfaced the real question.
Read the case study →An expensive analytics system was delivered on time and still got shelved, because the data underneath it was run by hand. Fix the foundation first.
Read the case study →Fifteen years across subsea engineering and £100m+ systems design, plus post-acquisition integration and buyer-side experience. I've sat where the funders sit, so I know what they actually look for, and I build the business to stand up to it.
What's weighing on the business right now?
Looking at buying a business rather than fixing your own? I run the same read on a company you are considering, in three grades. Checking a business before you buy it →