The word FUTURE in large blue letters on a glass surface with blurred background figures.

Reverse Thinking.
Forward Planning.

You’ll sell once. The buyer does this every day.

I help founders and CEOs prepare to sell their business — and counter the
buyer’s playbook.

The Problem

They’ve done this a hundred times.

Experienced acquirers run a playbook. Nobody else in the room will warn you — your banker earns at closing, your lawyer bills the deal. Both want it done.

The manufactured walk-away.

Findings held back for leverage.

The late retrade.

The earnout that never pays.

Red emergency box with text 'BREAK GLASS FOR KEY' and a hammer inside.

Testimonial

"Aleks is a rare gem with a ridiculous amount to offer anyone managing a business."

Joe F.

Founder

The Method

Start at the objective. Work back.

Conventional planning starts from where you are and produces a list of improvements — all defensible, most irrelevant to the price you finally get. Reverse Thinking starts at the exit you want and derives everything from it.

Which weaknesses matter, which don’t. The lens is Progress + Potential + Peril, plus a Four Phase Approach.

Learn How

Start with a conversation

I’m based in Austin and always happy to meet in person, but video or phone works too. Let’s keep it to 45 minutes — no charge, no obligation. And if we meet for coffee, it’s on me.

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The Proof

I’ve run the playbook from both sides.

Seven transactions. Three as the buyer, four as the seller. I know what an acquirer looks for and why — because I’ve been the one looking.

Rebuilt a company from $4m of debt to 80 people and three exits.

Founded and exited a digital agency still running twenty-five years on.

Co-built America's leading premium padel business to three club openings.

And, thirteen years of military flying, including search and rescue, before any of it.