Free tools for owners who are starting to think about stepping back. Each one takes a few minutes and gives you something useful to take to your accountant or your business partner.
18 questions about you and the business, not about price. You get a score across four areas and a note on what's holding you back.
About five minutes. Free, and your answers stay between us.
You get: A score out of 100, split across four areas.
A rough valuation range from your profit, your sector and the things that move the price, such as how much the business relies on you.
About four minutes. Free, and your answers stay between us.
You get: A low, a high and a most likely figure.
A rough guide to the Capital Gains Tax on selling your shares, with and without Business Asset Disposal Relief, at the rates for 2026 to 2027.
About two minutes. Free. Nothing you type is stored or sent anywhere.
You get: The tax with and without the relief, and what you keep.
Start from the profit in your accounts and adjust it the way a buyer would, with a plain-English note on every line. Sometimes called adjusted EBITDA.
About three minutes. Free. Nothing you type is stored or sent anywhere.
You get: The profit a buyer would use, line by line.
The Corporation Tax on your company's profits from 1 April 2026, including marginal relief between £50,000 and £250,000, and what's left after tax.
About a minute. Free. Nothing you type is stored or sent anywhere.
You get: The tax, the rate you pay overall and on your next £1,000.
When your company buys back your shares, the tax if it counts as a capital gain, with and without Business Asset Disposal Relief, against the tax if it counts as a dividend.
About two minutes. Free. Nothing you type is stored or sent anywhere.
You get: The tax three ways, and what you'd keep under each.
How much of your company's profit you keep in 2026 to 2027 if you take it as salary, as dividends, or as a small salary and then dividends.
About a minute. Free. Nothing you type is stored or sent anywhere.
You get: What you keep three ways, and which keeps most.
What it's worth
Most owners have never had their business valued, and the first figure they hear tends to stick. This is how buyers in the UK work out what an owner-run business is worth, and what moves the number.
9 minute read
Tax
If you're selling your business or your shares in it, Business Asset Disposal Relief can lower the Capital Gains Tax you pay. This is how it works for sales in the 2026 to 2027 tax year, now the rate has risen to 18%.
10 minute read
Selling a business
Most owners only sell once, so most owners are doing it for the first time. This is how a sale works in the UK, in the order it happens, and where it tends to go wrong.
9 minute read
