Closing Ready Ops

Work With Us

Closing Ready Ops works with one type of client. A business owner who is serious about selling, has a business worth selling, and is in the window where this work still makes sense to do.

How it works

How the sprint works

The sprint model exists because documentation work has a momentum problem. When it drags on for months, it stalls. People get busy. Documents go ungathered. A focused sprint fixes that.

After you engage, you receive an onboarding checklist. Your job before the sprint begins is to gather everything on that list: existing documents, contracts, customer records, whatever you have. If something doesn't exist yet, you note it and we build it during the sprint. The more prepared you arrive, the more ground we cover.

Day 1 is a full business audit call, a deep owner interview that covers how the business runs, how revenue comes in, who does what, and what lives only in your head. From there we move through your team, your documents, and your systems. You do the talking. We do the building. By the final day, we've assembled the full package, organized it for a data room, and walked you through what you're handing to your broker.

The Sprint

Sprint lengths by business size

Business Size	Revenue	Sprint Length
Solo operator / simple	Under $1M	5 days
Small team / moderate	$1M to $3M	7 days
Multi-department / complex	$3M to $7M	10 days

Pricing is discussed on our intro call, based on your business size and timeline.

Step by step

From intro call to deliverable

Stage	What Happens
Broker referral	Your broker identifies the documentation gap and makes the introduction.
Intake call	We assess fit, walk through the sprint model, and confirm your timeline and commitment.
Engagement	You pay, receive the onboarding checklist, and begin gathering documents.
Pre-sprint prep	You gather everything on the checklist before Day 1.
Sprint: Day 1	Full business audit call. Owner interview, Phases 1 through 3.
Sprint: Days 2–3	Deep functional interviews with managers and key staff (where applicable).
Sprint: Days 3–4	AI-assisted drafting, document organization, gap identification.
Sprint: Days 4–5	Gap fill calls, draft review, owner verification.
Final day	Package assembly, data room formatting, delivery and walkthrough.
Deliverable	Complete pre-DD operations package. Data room ready. Yours to keep.

Your commitment

What this requires from you

The sprint works because it's concentrated. We're not chasing documents for months or scheduling calls around everyone's availability. You clear your calendar for the sprint duration before we start, and we move through the work together without stopping. That's what makes the deliverable possible in the timeframe.

If the timing is not right yet, this is still here when you're ready.

In practice

What this looks like in practice

5-Day Sprint

Maria, Residential Cleaning

Twelve employees, $800K revenue, eleven years in business. Maria knows every client personally and trains new hires by riding along with them. Her broker tells her buyers keep asking how the business runs without her.

In five focused days, we interview Maria, gather all existing documents, build out her full operations package, and deliver a data room ready folder her broker can hand to any serious buyer.

7-Day Sprint

David, Commercial Landscaping

Fourteen employees, a GM, and a crew lead structure. Nothing is written down. Two buyers walked away in the last year when they couldn't get clear answers about key person dependency.

In seven days, we work with David, his GM, and two crew leads, gather all contracts and vendor agreements, and deliver a complete package that shows a buyer exactly how the business functions when David is on vacation.

10-Day Sprint

Sandra, Regional Home Health Staffing

Three locations, a director of operations, compliance staff, thirty-plus field employees. A PE-backed acquirer has expressed interest and her M&A attorney flagged zero operational documentation in the data room.

In ten days, we conduct structured interviews across the entire leadership team, gather and organize all existing documentation, and deliver a complete package formatted for a serious due diligence review.

Not the right fit

When the timing isn't right

If you're more than 18 months out and haven't gotten serious about the exit yet, this work makes more sense closer to the window. What we build needs a real sale behind it to be worth doing at this level.

If your financials need significant cleanup before a sale, start there first. We work best when the financial story is already clean and the operational story needs to catch up.

Come back when the timing lines up. The sprint will be here.