Straight answers
Not from Owner Control. Your identity stays hidden until you approve a specific buyer, and every buyer signs a confidentiality agreement before seeing detailed information. Most owners tell key staff only when a transaction is close and the rest after closing. We help you decide who needs to know and when, and you make that call.
No one can give you a reliable number from a website form, and Owner Control does not produce valuations. What we give you is what a buyer or lender looks at first: normalized earnings, the completeness of your records, how much the business depends on you, and the equity in any property you own. Your assessment scores those areas so you know what would raise or lower a buyer's number before you hear one.
You set the pace, and we do not promise a timeline. Once terms are agreed and signed, simpler transactions have closed in about 30 days. Complex ones, or ones where the business and the property transfer together, have taken 90 to 180 days. If you want a faster exit, we prepare for that. If you want a slower path that builds more value first, we prepare for that instead.
Three years of tax returns and financial statements, a trailing twelve month profit and loss, a debt schedule, a customer and revenue breakdown, key contracts, an equipment list, and property or lease documents. Your assessment already asks which of these you have, so your 30-day plan starts with the ones that are missing.
You stop. There is no listing agreement and no exclusivity, so nothing binds you to continue. If an ACE Deals consultant, called an ACE Specialist, has been working with you, the success fee is owed only when a transaction closes; if nothing closes, nothing is owed. You keep the readiness work you completed.
Yes, before you sign anything. Owner Control is not a law firm or an accounting firm. We coordinate with your CPA on the financial file and with your attorney on the agreement, and if you do not have either, we tell you what to look for in one.
You and the buyer decide that in the agreement, and you can make it a condition. Many owners negotiate retention terms for key staff. Buyers usually want your team to stay, because the business runs on them.
Yes, if you want to. Your assessment asks what role you would consider: exit at closing, a short or longer transition, an advisory seat, or keeping control alongside a partner. Buyers often pay more for a transition period, so staying involved is a negotiating point, not a concession.
We treat them as two assets with one plan. Property equity is scored separately in your assessment, and the transaction is structured so you can sell both, sell the business and keep the building as its landlord, or refinance instead of selling. ACE's published transactions all involve property, so this is familiar ground.
Then you are like most of the owners we meet. Take the assessment anyway. An ACE Specialist can connect you to the Wavves Capital funding resource, the Tax Hive tax-planning resource, the Estate Guard estate-planning resource, and specialized property management. You also receive a 30-day plan to strengthen your position. You keep the relationship and list later, or never.
No. Every listing on Owner Control is placed by the owner. A broker who knows you can refer you and be paid at closing for the introduction, but no one holds an exclusive on your listing and no one speaks for you. That is the point of the platform.