Owner Consult · 30 minutes · by phone

Pick two windows. We confirm one within a business hour.

Thirty minutes on the phone with a CPA who spent fifteen years examining businesses for the IRS. The call walks through your value range, the two or three items a buyer's accountant would raise first, and which of our options fits, if any of them do. It's free. There is nothing to sign and nothing to prepare.

Request your consultWeekdays 9 to 5 Central. Confirmation by email within one business hour.

Your name

Phone (we call you)

Where's the business?

First choice

Day

Time

Second choice (optional)

Day

Time

What's prompting the question? optional, one line is plenty

You'll get the confirmed time by email. Prefer to call? (312) 278-2109, weekdays 9 to 5. A person answers.

What the thirty minutes cover

Your timingWhat's prompting the question, and whether the honest answer is now, in two years, or not yet.
The value range, walked throughThe multiple band for your industry and size, where you sit in it, and why it's a range rather than a number.
The gaps a buyer's accountant finds firstWhich one is worth the most money, and how long it takes to fix.
Your options, with the fees said out loudThe $4,500 Exit-Readiness Review, a listing at a 10% success fee agreed in writing, a sale to Lakeshore with no commission, or waiting. We'll say which one we'd choose in your position.

Led by a former IRS auditor Nothing listed, nothing shared No listing agreement, no obligation West Loop office; we come to you in the six counties

After you send it

What happens next.

If neither window you chose works, we propose another in the same email. You don't need to have decided anything before the call.

Confirmation within a business hour
An email from Lakeshore Exit Partners with the confirmed day and time. Requests sent after 5 p.m. Central are confirmed first thing the next business morning.
Your advisor calls you at that time
Have last year's P&L nearby if it's handy. It isn't required; we work from what you know. What you say on the call stays with the Lakeshore team.
You decide, on your own schedule
Whether the right move is the Review, a listing, a sale to Lakeshore, or waiting, you'll hear which and why. Nothing is owed for the call, and there is no sales call afterward unless you ask for one.