# Exit Engine

> Exit Engine is an M&A brokerage and pre-transaction advisory firm for owner-led businesses, based in Murray, Utah and serving owners across the United States. It values, prepares, and sells owner-operated companies through a five-phase pathway — Exit Readiness Scorecard (free), Value Study, Value Acceleration Map, Consulting, and Go to Market — delivered by one coordinated team of M&A advisors, CPAs, transaction attorneys, fractional CFOs, and wealth managers.

Exit Engine represents one side of any transaction, never both, and there is no handoff between the advisory phases and the sale: the specialists who quantify a business's value run its exit. Fees are not published; engagements begin with a discovery call or the free Exit Readiness Scorecard. Contact: contact@exit-engine.com · 801-895-7895.

## Start here

- [Exit Engine (home)](https://exit-engine.com/): M&A brokers and pre-transaction advisors for owner-led businesses. One team values, prepares, and sells your company — from free Scorecard to close.
- [How We Help — the five-phase pathway](https://exit-engine.com/services.md): Exit Engine's five-phase exit pathway: free Exit Readiness Scorecard, Value Study, Value Acceleration Map, Consulting, and Go to Market — always in order.

## Services

- [Exit Readiness Scorecard (free)](https://exit-engine.com/services-scorecard.md): Score how prepared your business is for a buyer's diligence across the nine domains buyers price. Free, about ten minutes, no obligation.
- [Value Study](https://exit-engine.com/services-business-value-report.md): A three-method business valuation with quality-of-earnings summary, value-gap analysis, and action plan for owner-led companies. Delivered in 1–2 weeks.
- [Value Acceleration Map](https://exit-engine.com/services-value-acceleration-plan.md): Turns your Value Study into dated milestones with named owners, quantified impact on multiple, and a live dashboard shared with your advisors. 4–6 weeks.
- [Consulting](https://exit-engine.com/services-consulting.md): Execution of your Value Acceleration Map: financial cleanup, operations, tax structure, legal prep, and owner-dependence reduction. 3–12 months.
- [Go to Market (sell-side brokerage)](https://exit-engine.com/services-brokerage.md): Sell-side brokerage: CIM, targeted buyer outreach, LOI negotiation, diligence management, and close — run by the team that built your value. 6–12 months.

## How it works

- [Our Process](https://exit-engine.com/process.md): Exit Engine's five-phase method — Scorecard, Value Study, Value Acceleration Map, Consulting, Go to Market — with defined inputs, deliverables, and gates.
- [For Referral Partners](https://exit-engine.com/partners.md): How CPAs, attorneys, wealth advisors, and fractional CFOs refer clients to Exit Engine. You stay primary on the relationship; we bring the M&A engineering.

## About

- [Our Story](https://exit-engine.com/story.md): Why Exit Engine exists: most exits are improvised. We do the pre-transaction work — value gaps, diligence risk, tax and wealth planning — before you sell.
- [Our Team](https://exit-engine.com/team.md): Meet the Exit Engine team: M&A and QofE, operations, wealth, legal, due diligence, tax, and founder transition — one coordinated team on every engagement.
- [Bio — Spencer Wright](https://exit-engine.com/bio-spencer-wright.md): Spencer Wright leads owner education and founder transition at Exit Engine. Founder of The Pod Mill and the Founder's Therapy podcast.
- [Contact](https://exit-engine.com/contact.md): Book a 20-minute discovery call with Exit Engine in Murray, Utah. Email contact@exit-engine.com or call 801-895-7895, Monday to Friday, 8am–5pm Mountain.

## Optional

- [Owner's Library (podcast and resources)](https://exit-engine.com/library.md): The SMB Playbook podcast on scaling smarter and exiting stronger, plus guides and working material for business owners. Free, no email gate.
- [Privacy Policy](https://exit-engine.com/privacy.md): Exit Engine's privacy policy: what information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and the choices and rights you have.
- [Terms of Use](https://exit-engine.com/terms.md): The terms of use that govern the Exit Engine website, including acceptable use, intellectual property, disclaimers, and limitations of liability.
- [AI Disclosure](https://exit-engine.com/ai-disclosure.md): How Exit Engine uses AI in its work: what is automated, what stays human, what data is processed, and the choices you have.

## Machine-readable

- [llms-full.txt](https://exit-engine.com/llms-full.txt): every page above, as one Markdown document.
- [Sitemap](https://exit-engine.com/sitemap.xml): all indexable URLs with last-modified dates.
- Every HTML page also has a Markdown twin at the same path with a .md extension, and returns Markdown when requested with `Accept: text/markdown`.