Your Exit Context

Before comparing deal structures, identify what matters most to you and what your realistic alternatives actually are.

How to use this tool

Learn how different deal structures affect what you receive at closing, what is paid later or depends on future results, what ownership you retain, and what may still tie you to the business after closing.
Explore combinations and trade-offs without assuming there is one "normal" deal.
Use the final My Deal Position section to record what currently works for you.
This is a planning and educational tool, not an offer analysis or professional recommendation.

Choose up to 3 priorities that matter most to you right now. The order you pick them does not rank them.

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Answer based on what would actually happen in your situation, not what sounds ideal.

Keep operating the business

Continue operating while preparing for a later sale

Transition gradually to management, family, or another successor

Pursue a different buyer

Gradually step back while retaining ownership

Wind the business down

I genuinely do not know yet

Other

Anything important about this alternative? (optional)

This could include timing, personal constraints, succession realities, or why this alternative matters to you.

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Select any paths you are open to considering. You do not need to know yet which one is most likely.