Build a More Valuable, Transferable Business.
NAVA helps privately held business owners understand what may support or suppress enterprise value — and what can be improved before a sale, succession, investment, or strategic decision forces the question.
What a Buyer Will Pay Depends on More Than Earnings.
Two businesses with similar revenue and earnings can command very different outcomes. The difference is often transferability: how reliably those earnings can continue under new ownership.
NAVA evaluates value through both external market evidence and business-specific factors such as owner dependence, customer concentration, revenue quality, management depth, financial reliability, systems, growth, and risk.
The objective is not simply to produce a number. It is to understand what may support the current range, what may suppress it, and what actions could improve the eventual outcome.
The Factors Buyers Actually Care About.
Revenue and earnings matter, but the quality, durability, and transferability of those earnings matter too.
Financial Quality
Normalized earnings, margin quality, add-backs, cash conversion, working capital, and reporting reliability.
Owner Dependence
How much customer, commercial, technical, and operational knowledge depends personally on the owner.
Customer Concentration
Exposure to major accounts, retention risk, contract quality, diversification, and pricing power.
Revenue Quality
Recurring, repeat, contracted, diversified, or project-based revenue and the predictability of future earnings.
Management & Systems
Leadership depth, documented processes, controls, operating discipline, and the ability to function without the owner.
Growth & Market Position
Organic growth, competitive differentiation, customer acquisition, market opportunity, and strategic positioning.
Market Evidence + Business-Specific Scoring.
A credible view of value should combine what similar businesses actually trade for with the characteristics of the specific business being assessed.
What Similar Businesses Trade For.
Relevant transaction and market evidence considered in the context of size, industry, geography, growth, earnings definition, deal structure, and market conditions.
How This Business Compares.
Structured scoring across financial quality, owner dependence, concentration, management depth, revenue quality, systems, growth, and business-specific risk.
What Could Improve the Outcome.
Prioritized actions aimed at improving transferability, reducing buyer risk, strengthening operating quality, and supporting a stronger potential valuation range.
How Transferable Is Your Business?
Start with five high-level questions. You will see your preliminary result before NAVA asks for any contact information.
Your preliminary result is shown before any contact information is requested. Continue only if you want the more detailed assessment.
Get Your Full Value & Transferability Score.
The detailed assessment takes about 7–10 minutes and scores the business across five dimensions.
By continuing, you are asking NAVA to provide the detailed assessment result and may receive follow-up related to this assessment. NAVA does not sell your contact information.
A Progressive Process — Not a Data Dump on Day One.
NAVA starts with information that is easy for an owner to provide, then adds financial and market evidence only when it becomes useful to the next decision.
Preliminary Assessment
A high-level directional view using information most owners can answer immediately.
Business Value Snapshot — $499
Your completed assessment is combined with key financial information, normalized owner earnings, and relevant market evidence to establish an indicative current value range and the principal factors influencing that range.
Enterprise Value Assessment — $1,900
A deeper review of financial normalization, transaction evidence, business-specific risks, value drivers, and a prioritized 12–24 month value-improvement roadmap.
Deeper Analysis Requires Better Evidence — But Not All at Once.
A more defensible valuation range ultimately requires financial and operating information. NAVA's process is designed to request that information progressively rather than making the first interaction feel like due diligence.
Want a More Defensible View of Your Business?
Start with the preliminary assessment, or contact NAVA if you are already considering a sale, succession, investment, or value-improvement initiative.