FAQ
Questions owners ask first
- What exactly am I buying?
- A structured, self-directed educational assessment: a set of owner assessment documents delivered inside a private dashboard and released in a guided sequence. The Base Assessment™ includes eight documents; the Comprehensive Assessment™ includes all ten.
- What will I actually do?
- You read short orientation materials, work through the Seller Walkthrough™, and then complete the Owner Readiness Snapshot™ — a fillable PDF where you respond to plain-language statements and record your own reflections, section by section.
- What subjects does the assessment explore?
- Your expectations, objectives, and timing; your understanding of how a sale or transition generally works; financial organization and reporting visibility; operations and transferability; owner dependency and management depth; continuity, customer or revenue concentration, contracts and relationships; documentation and record organization; and the questions or areas that may warrant qualified professional attention.
- What will I receive?
- Permanent dashboard access to the documents in your package, downloadable copies of every one of them, and fillable materials you complete and keep on your own device.
- What may become clearer after completion?
- The assessment is designed to help make your expectations and concerns more explicit, bring important subjects into a deliberate sequence, make open questions more visible, and create a clearer starting point for a future professional conversation. What becomes clearer will vary by owner.
- What is the functional difference between Base and Comprehensive?
- Base provides visibility: what exists, what you currently understand, and where your questions are. Comprehensive includes Base and adds the Transaction Readiness Implications Review™ and Transaction Readiness Understanding Summary™, which supply structured educational context on why certain observations, gaps, or uncertainties may matter later. Comprehensive does not analyze your individual responses or evaluate your business.
- Why might a professional refer me here?
- Because an owner who has already organized their expectations, questions, and concerns makes better use of professional time. The assessment supports the professional relationship rather than replacing it, and nothing you complete is automatically shared with the person who referred you.
- Will it determine whether my business is ready to sell?
- No. It helps you see what you understand and what you do not. Any conclusion about readiness belongs to you and your own qualified professionals.
- Will it provide a readiness score or a valuation?
- No. There is no score, no grade, no certification, and no valuation or estimate of what your business is worth.
- Does it recommend a broker or other professional?
- No. There is no professional matching, no introductions, and no recommendation of any specific advisor or buyer.
- Can I share completed materials with my existing professionals?
- Yes. The materials are yours. Many owners share them with their attorney, accountant, or M&A professional — always by their own choice.
- Does SellerPreparation.com store the answers I enter into my PDFs?
- No. Answers you type into the fillable documents stay in the files you save on your device and are not stored by SellerPreparation.com as assessment-answer data. SellerPreparation.com does maintain the limited account and operational information needed to provide and support the service, and authorized administrators may access appropriate account and completion records for legitimate operational and support purposes.
- Can a referring professional see my progress?
- No. A referring professional does not receive your answers, your documents, or your completion status. Nothing is transmitted automatically.
- How long does the assessment take?
- Completion time varies depending on how much information you already have available and how thoughtfully you choose to respond. Progress can be saved and resumed.
- Can I save progress and return later?
- Yes. Your dashboard records which documents you have completed, and your fillable PDFs save on your own device, so you can stop and resume at any point.
- Do I retain access after completion?
- Yes. Payment is one-time and access to what you purchased does not expire. You can re-download your documents whenever you need them.
- Can I upgrade later?
- Yes. If you start with the Base Assessment™, you can purchase the Comprehensive Assessment™ from your dashboard at any time. Comprehensive is a separate $149 purchase — the $99 you paid for Base is not credited toward it.
- Is this legal, tax, accounting, or investment advice?
- No. Seller Preparation is educational only. It does not advise you, represent you, evaluate your business, or broker a transaction. Decisions belong with you and your own professional advisors.