You’re thinking about legacy
Later in your career, thinking hard about your employees, your clients and what the next twenty years look like. You want it left in good hands, and that matters as much as the number.
Sell-side advisory for founders, entrepreneurs & family businesses
When it’s time for the next chapter, get everything you deserve.
Selling is never only about the number — it’s your legacy, your clients, your people, and everything you put into building it. Tempest is led by advisors who built companies, ran them, and sold them, and who know the whole transition.
Before you’re sure
Most people who call us aren’t certain they want to sell.
That’s the normal starting point, not a problem. You’ve been turning it over for a while, you’re not sure the feeling is legitimate, and the people closest to you don’t quite understand what you’re weighing. We do — and there’s no cost to talking it through before you’ve decided anything.
And what you’re weighing isn’t a spreadsheet. It’s the clients who trusted you, the employees who built it alongside you, your family, and your own tie to something you made from nothing. A good outcome has to account for all of it — not just the headline number.
You’re probably here because…
You’re simply done
Age has nothing to do with it. You’ve carried this for long enough and you want out. That’s a legitimate reason to sell — not a failure, and not something you need to justify to us.
The decision found you
Health, a partnership that stopped working, family circumstance. Something moved the timeline for you and now you’re making a decision you hadn’t planned to make yet.
Why it’s different here
Your first exit. Not ours.
Most owners sell once. The buyers across the table do this as a regular part of their daily operations — they know where the leverage sits, which questions land, and how a good business gets talked down in diligence. We even the table, because we’ve sat on your side of it.
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What you get
Three things, and they only work together.
Lived experience
Our advisors have built companies and sold them. Not a case study — the actual decision, the actual diligence, the actual morning after. It changes what we notice and what we tell you.
Technical rigor
Deep strength in modeling, numbers and structure. Your exit strategy is built for your business and your goals, not pulled off a shelf and relabeled.
Modern execution
The process brought up to date — clearer to follow, easier to navigate, and built to put your company in front of the right buyer rather than every buyer.
Knowing what to look for is experience. Knowing what it’s worth is rigor. Getting to the finish line is execution. Miss one, and the other two don’t matter.
How we work
How a sale actually goes
Four stages. The first one is a conversation, and it’s the one most advisors skip.
Step 01
Decide if it’s time
A conversation, not a pitch. Sometimes the answer is “not yet” — we’ll tell you, and we’ll tell you what to work on in the meantime.
Step 02
Understand what you have
The numbers, cleanly — and then everything the numbers don’t show. Your competitive advantage, your client relationships, your technology, your talent. To position you in the best light we use the whole picture, not just the P&L.
Step 03
Go to the right buyers
Positioning the company in its best light, then running a full process to the buyers who align with our goals — not a blast to everyone with a mailbox.
Step 04
Get you to the close
Negotiation, diligence, and the long stretch in the middle where deals quietly fall apart. We stay in it with you until it’s signed.
Who we work with
Founders, entrepreneurs and family businesses.
Independently held companies, where the decision still rests with the people who built them. If you built something based on expertise and relationships, you’re who we’re built for.
- Where
- Globally.
One conversation. No pitch, no pressure.
Thirty minutes to talk through where you are. You don’t need to decide anything.
Talk to usOr call us at (888) 828-4824.
We’ve sat in your seat. Now we help you get where you’re going.