Make your business run, and sell, without you.

P10 Advisory helps founder-led manufacturing and SME businesses become process-driven, more valuable and exit-ready. We provide ground-up, outcome-based consulting that reduces the business’s dependence on the owner, improves day-to-day performance, and builds the transferable value a buyer pays a premium for, measured throughout by our proprietary P10 Index.

The P10 Index is a diagnostic that scores a business from 1 to 10 across ten dimensions of value — the ten Ps — for a single readiness score out of 100. A score of 10–40 means the business is Founder-Dependent, 41–70 means Process-Driven, and 71–100 means Exit-Ready. It baselines where a business is today, sets the target, and tracks every improvement.

The ten Ps are Purpose, Position, Proposition, Pipeline, Process, People, Performance, Profit, Protection and Payday, grouped into five pillars: Direction, Demand, Delivery, Discipline and Durability. Together they define whether a business can run, and sell, without its founder.

We work with founder-led manufacturing and SME businesses — typically owner-managed companies where too much still depends on one person, that are planning to step back, hand over or sell within roughly the next two to seven years, and whose owners want lasting change implemented rather than just a report.

Most advisors solve half the problem: consultants hand over strategy decks, accountants optimise the numbers, and brokers arrive only at the point of sale. P10 connects both halves in one system, because the same work that frees an owner from the business is the work that makes it valuable to a buyer, and we implement it hands-on with your team rather than leaving you a binder.

Buyers pay for transferable, de-risked profit, not for an owner’s personal effort. When customers, knowledge, decisions and relationships all run through the founder, the business carries high key-person risk and most of its value walks out of the door on completion. Australian research shows almost half of owners considering an exit have no succession or sale plan, and many businesses prove hard to sell because their value cannot transfer beyond the founder.

It depends on the starting P10 Index and the goal, but most founder-led businesses work to a 12–24 month roadmap. The P10 Audit, which produces the baseline score and plan, runs over roughly four to six weeks, and the Index is re-scored at intervals so progress is measured in points gained.

No. The same ten levers that prepare a business for a premium exit also free the owner day-to-day and improve performance now. Many owners engage P10 years before any sale, simply to step back, de-risk the business and grow its value. Exit-readiness is the by-product of a well-run, transferable business.

Start with the free P10 Index self-assessment: twenty questions, about four minutes, and you’ll see an indicative score, your readiness band and where your value and freedom are most trapped. From there, the full P10 Audit validates the picture against evidence and builds your roadmap.