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The cleanup that moves the price when you sell

Buyers discount a business for the things the owner never fixed: contracts that cannot be assigned, IP that was never assigned to the company, systems only one person understands, security that would fail a buyer's questionnaire. The Virtual C-Suite runs that cleanup, three years out or six months out, from partners who have sold companies themselves.

What buyers find in diligence

  1. Customer contracts with change-of-control clauses nobody read
  2. Contractors who wrote the software and never assigned the IP
  3. A domain, a trademark or a key account registered in the founder's personal name
  4. No written security policy, no incident log, a cyber insurance application answered optimistically
  5. Financials that cannot be tied to the systems that produced them

What we do, by timeline

  1. Three years outEntity and IP cleanup, contract standardization, systems documentation, security baseline.
  2. One year outData room build, vendor and employment agreement review, key-person dependency reduction.
  3. Six months outBuyer questionnaire prep, representations and warranties review, technology transition plan.

Why us

David founded, grew and sold a technology company; he has read the diligence list as the seller. Duane has supported [confirm] client transitions as the IT provider.

The three seats

David Moore
David MooreVirtual General CounselRegistered patent attorney. Founded, built and sold a technology company before law school.Fractional general counsel →
Duane Epperly
Duane EpperlyVirtual CIO30 years in IT. Founder of EDG.tech and co-owner of two franchise businesses.Fractional CIO →
Daniel Ramos
Daniel RamosVirtual Chief Security Officer25 years in the FBI, retired as Assistant Special Agent in Charge.Fractional CSO →
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