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Build a Better Business. Build a More Valuable Business.
IK Systems helps owners measure the strength of their company, identify what to improve next, implement better business infrastructure, and track how those improvements affect business value over time.
Business value isn't just something to think about when you're ready to sell. It's one of the clearest ways to measure whether you're building a stronger company.
The operating loop
Business improvement should create measurable value.
The assessments are not meant to be completed once and forgotten. They create a baseline.
As the operating team improves customer acquisition, systems, people, margins, working capital and other business infrastructure, the company can periodically reassess and revalue itself.
This lets the team see whether the work being done is actually producing a stronger and more valuable company.
Business value isn't just an exit metric. It is one measure of the quality of the business you're building.
01
Assess
Understand where uncertainty and structural risk exist, and what is creating the biggest constraint.
02
Improve
Strengthen the systems responsible for those risks, using the tools and operating framework.
03
Measure
Track Predictability and Business Attractiveness as the structure improves.
04
Revalue
Measure whether a stronger company is creating greater Enterprise Value.
05
Repeat
Continue reducing unnecessary risk and building a more predictable business.
The product ladder
Every Product Is an Entry Point Into the Same System.
These are not unrelated calculators. Each one answers the next question an owner has, and each one feeds the same operating record of the business.
Stronger businesses tend to become more predictable, more profitable, less owner-dependent, better systemized, easier to manage, more transferable — and ultimately more valuable.
Business value isn't just an exit metric. It's a measure of the business you're building.
You don't build a more valuable business just so you can sell it. You build a more valuable business because it becomes a better business to own.
- StartBasic Predictability AssessmentFree
- DiagnoseFull Predictability Assessment$7
- ValueBusiness Valuation$37
- Go deeperAdvanced Business Valuation$97
- ImproveFull Predictability Toolkit$37
- ManageBusiness Value PortalFree
- See the gapFull Business Value Report$97
- DecideValue Strategy Review$247
- Work with usBusiness Growth PartnershipEngagement
Illustrative fills. In the portal, each layer reflects your own scores.
The Predictability Pyramid™
Build From the Base Up.
Each layer supports the one above it. The purpose of the IK Systems tools is to help the operating team understand which layer is currently limiting the company and what to strengthen next.
- 05Profit, Freedom, Business Value
- 04Predictable Growth
- 03Predictable Execution
- 02Predictable Operations
- 01Predictable Customers
01Assess the business
Know Where Your Business Stands.
Assessments help operators identify where unnecessary uncertainty sits in the business — the constraints, weaknesses and opportunities worth acting on before spending time, money or management attention.
Basic Predictability Assessment
Quickly identify the weakest layer in the business.
Free
Start AssessmentFull Predictability Assessment
A deeper assessment of customers, operations, execution, growth and business outcomes.
Business Attractiveness Scorecard
Evaluate how attractive and transferable the business may be to a future owner.
- — Owner dependence
- — Customer concentration
- — Management
- — Systems
- — Working capital
- — Facilities
- — Equipment
- — Operational readiness
Scorecard free · Complete report $37
Score the BusinessA valuation tells you what the current earnings suggest. Business Attractiveness helps determine how much of that economic engine may actually transfer to a new owner.
02Improve the business
Turn Insight Into Action.
Knowing the constraint is only useful if something changes. IK Systems tools help the operating team work through the problems that limit predictability, profitability, freedom and enterprise value.
Predictability Toolkit
Practical tools for improving the systems and infrastructure behind the Predictability Pyramid.
- — 18 printable tools
- — Interactive tools where applicable
- — The complete workbook
How it is used
Each tool maps to a layer of the pyramid, so the team works on the constraint the assessment identified rather than whatever is loudest that week. Printable worksheets can be worked through with the leadership team; the interactive versions save responses in the portal.
03Measure business value
Know What the Business Is Becoming.
Valuation creates a financial baseline. Owners should update valuations periodically — annually, or after meaningful changes in revenue, profit, management structure, customer concentration, systems or business risk.
Action → Business improvement → Value creation
Business Valuation
Estimate the business's current financial value based on earnings and relevant valuation factors.
Calculator free · Complete report $37
Run the ValuationAdvanced Business Valuation
Go beyond the earnings multiple.
- — Enterprise value, working capital and debt
- — Equipment, assets and goodwill
- — Transaction value bridge
- — Financeability, DSCR and seller financing
- — Transferability risk
04Track the business
Your Business Value — Over Time.
Assessing, improving and revaluing only matters if you can see the trend. The Business Value Portal keeps every valuation, attractiveness score, predictability score and report in one place, so each reassessment is measured against the last one instead of starting over.
Business Value Portal
- — Save valuations
- — Update business value
- — Track historical valuations
- — Track Business Attractiveness
- — Track Predictability
- — Use the interactive tools
- — View reports
- — See changes over time
The goal isn't to maximize a valuation once. The goal is to continually build a business that deserves a higher valuation.
Free
Creating an account, saving your results and re-measuring whenever the business changes costs nothing, and nothing you save is ever deleted.
Open Your Portal$97 — Full Business Value Report
What the business is worth today, what it could be worth, and the order to close the gap in. Earlier report purchases are credited toward it.
Get the Full ReportThe portal itself is free. What you pay for are the finished deliverables — the reports, the toolkit and the strategy review.
05Work with IK Systems
Not Consulting From the Sidelines.
The Business Growth Partnership is for owners and leadership teams that want IK Systems working alongside them — identifying constraints, strengthening the infrastructure behind the business, and measuring whether those improvements are actually increasing enterprise value.
Business Growth Partnership
Strategic Advisory · Operating Infrastructure · Accountability · Enterprise Value Growth
$5,000 initial engagement + $2,500 / month
90-day engagement, reviewed at the end of each term
Business Value Portal included
The initial engagement
The initial engagement establishes the business baseline.
- — Business Valuation
- — Business Attractiveness
- — Predictability Assessment
- — Leadership and owner review
- — Identification of primary constraints
- — Priorities and an initial improvement roadmap
Ongoing work
Working alongside the operating team to:
- — Work through current constraints
- — Implement improvements
- — Maintain accountability
- — Measure progress
- — Periodically reassess the company
- — Update the valuation
- — Track increases in business strength and value
The engagement fee is earned for the work performed and is not contingent on the business achieving specific financial results. Where separately agreed, an engagement may also include Enterprise Value Growth Participation — a portion of the new enterprise value created above the agreed starting value.
How the products fit together
This Is a System — Not a Collection of Tools.
The assessments establish where the company is today.
The tools help operators improve what is limiting the company.
Valuation and Business Attractiveness measure whether those improvements are producing stronger financial and transferable value.
The portal creates a historical record so owners can see the company changing over time. Then the process repeats.
- 01Assess
- 02Identify the constraint
- 03Use the tools
- 04Improve the business
- 05Reassess
- 06Revalue
- 07Track the change
When should you reassess?
Don't Wait Until You're Ready to Sell.
Run a comprehensive baseline assessment when beginning, then reassess approximately annually. Consider updating sooner after a significant change. This is an operating best practice, not a legal or accounting requirement.
- Meaningful revenue growth
- Substantial margin improvement
- Management hires
- Owner role reduction
- Major customer changes
- An acquisition
- New recurring revenue
- Facility changes
- Equipment investment
- Debt reduction
- Working capital improvements
- System and process implementation
Selling is not the only goal
A More Valuable Business Is Usually a Better Business to Own.
You don't build a more valuable business just so you can sell it. You build a more valuable business because it becomes a better business to own.
Many owners think about business value only in the context of an eventual sale. IK Systems approaches it differently. Enterprise value can be a scoreboard for the quality of the company being built.
When a company becomes less dependent on the owner, more predictable, better managed, better documented, more profitable, more durable and more transferable, the owner often benefits long before a transaction ever occurs — more freedom, less operational chaos, stronger cash flow, better leadership, greater optionality, and ultimately a more valuable asset.
The financials tell you what the business produced under the current owner. Transferability tells you how much of that economic engine the buyer is actually acquiring.
Build the business you'd want to own — and the business someone else would want to buy.