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Two businesses, one idea behind both.

A company that depends on its owner is harder to run, harder to grow, and worth less than it should be. Which route makes sense depends on where you are and what you want from the business.

The work itself

01

Smarter processes

Remove the bottlenecks, delays and messy processes that waste time, kill momentum and keep dragging the owner back into the day-to-day.

02

Scalable systems

Build the systems, automation and reporting needed to support better sales, better delivery, better margins and more consistent execution.

03

Autonomous leadership

Help the team take more ownership, make better decisions, and reduce the number of issues that end up back on the owner's desk.

When the best route is a group, not a sale

Most sectors are full of well-run small companies that cannot realistically be sold on their own, while the buyers with real money will only look at scale. That gap is worth closing deliberately.

Alone £1m of profit

A thin buyer market. Modest multiples. Earn-outs, personal warranties, and a real chance of no deal at all.

Assembled £10m of profit

Private equity and large consolidators actively look for this size. They pay more, they pay in cash, and they complete.

The idea, in four sentences

  1. We build a group of companies around a platform company.
  2. Some join by swapping shares. Others are bought outright for cash.
  3. The group becomes worth far more than the same companies were apart.
  4. When the value is realised — by a sale, or by taking the group public — every shareholder shares in what has been created.

The three rules

  • You keep what you have already built.
  • We only share in what is created after you join.
  • When the group is sold, the platform owners are paid first — and always take home more than we do.

There is no fixed order and no obligation to list. A group can be assembled privately and sold in a single transaction, assembled and then listed, or built in the open with quoted shares buying the next companies. Listing is a route, not a finishing line.

Where to start

Exitable

Build a business that runs without you.

Owner-led businesses doing £5M–£75M

Smarter processes, scalable systems and autonomous leadership — so the business stops depending on its owner and starts being worth more. And when the right route to value is a group rather than a sale, Exitable builds that too.

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McGideon

Win more work. Waste less time.

Construction and building services contractors

A business development system that finds opportunities before the market does, connects you to the decision-makers, and takes the scramble out of bidding.

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Not sure where you sit?

Most owners start with a Bottleneck Audit at Exitable — an honest picture of where the business still depends on you, what that is costing in growth and value, and what to fix first.

Start with a Bottleneck Audit

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