The method
How we price a trade business. The Payline.
Your worth is a range, not a single number. The Payline shows you the range, and the three things that move you inside it.
An example. Your read is yours.
The range a buyer would pay: $5.4M to $9.0M. What the market pays a business like this: $7.2M. the example: $6.3M.
Your true earnings, after the noise, what actually drops to the bottom line.
How sure next year’s money is. Repeat and contracted work counts more than one-off jobs.
Whether the crew, the contracts, and the license hold when you step back. The first thing a buyer checks.
Move any of the three, and where you land moves with it.
Why a range, not a number.
The market sets a floor and a ceiling for a business your size and trade, built from what real specialty contractors sold for. Three things decide where you land inside it.
Who can buy you.
A few things set who can buy you, and at what price: your books, your bonding, and how the license transfers. We check those too.
You run The Read yourself, in a few minutes.
The Read walks you through plain questions about the business and shows you where you stand. Private, and free. It ends in one straight answer: go, build first, wait, or not this way.