Succession planning with Adapt
Adapt helps founder-led Australian SME owners build a business that no longer depends on them. A business that runs without its owner is worth more when it is sold.
Owner dependence and value
Adapt in figures
- Framework
- Succession Thinking
- Refined across
- 14 years
- SME owners
- 500 plus
- Discount on an owner-dependent business
- About 50%
- Diagnostic
- 8 minutes
The value of a business without its owner
Most exit and succession advice starts with a threat: what happens if you are hit by a bus, or when you retire. Adapt starts from the other end, with what the business is worth once it can run without the person who built it.
By Adapt's measure, a business that depends on its owner sells for about half the value of one that does not.
Who Adapt works with
Established SMEs
Businesses with 20 or more staff and A$2 million or more in revenue.
The owner at the centre
Owners who are still the person every decision runs through.
Leaving as a choice
Adapt designs the leadership, strategy and systems that let the business run without the owner, so leaving becomes a choice.
Succession Thinking
Every engagement runs on Succession Thinking, the framework by Bill Withers, refined across 14 years and more than 500 SME owners.
Leadership
Adapt builds the leaders, so decisions stop running through the owner.
Strategy
Adapt sets the plan and the limits that keep the business moving when the owner steps back.
Systems
Adapt turns what lives in the owner's head into systems the business can run on its own.
Adapt and VerticalAI
Adapt works to take the owner out of the centre of the business. Answering the phones is one piece of that, and it is the piece our agents take over.
When Adapt maps the systems that let a business run without its founder, the phone line is one of them. An agent answers inbound calls the same way each time, whether or not anyone is free to pick up.
The owner independence review
A free, confidential one-hour review of your business and what it would take to reduce its dependency on you, the owner. You also get a copy of the Succession Thinking book.
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