S U C C E D R O

Do you carry the business on your back — or just keep a finger on its heartbeat?

If the business still runs through you, it's worth less and harder to leave — whether you'd sell one day or just want your evenings back. Find out how dependent it really is: honest, yours to keep, no one calling you. Free, a few quiet minutes.

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~4 minutes · 11 honest questions · personalised result · no cost

The founder's trap

The most successful founders are often the most trapped.

When the business can't run without you, you don't own a business — you own a job that owns you. That's true whether you dream of selling for full value one day or simply want a holiday where your phone stays quiet. Reducing how much it leans on you gives you your time back now — and makes it sellable later, if and when you choose.

Your time

If every decision routes through you, you can never fully switch off — not for a holiday, not for a single day.

Your freedom

A business that needs you daily quietly dictates how you live. Stepping back shouldn't mean everything stops.

Your options

Keep it, hand it over, or sell it one day — you only get to choose if it can run without you.

The number you've never run

What does it actually return — on everything you've put in?

You know the profit. But have you ever put a number on the return — on the capital tied up in the business, and the years of your own time — measured against what it could earn elsewhere: a market benchmark, safe compounding, a professionally run portfolio that needs none of you? Most owners never have. It isn't a reason to sell — it's the honest baseline that tells you whether the business pays you back what the risk and the work deserve. And if it doesn't yet, that's exactly what a business built to run without you puts right.

The calculation is yours to run — with your own adviser. The assessment below is where the honest look begins.

THE "ARE YOU READY?" SCALE

Where does your business sit — Founder Prison or Legacy Engine?

Eleven honest questions — some of them uncomfortable — then a result tailored to your situation. No jargon, no email required to see it. Answer how things really are today, not how you'd like them to be.

A free taste of the full Professional Audit — these eleven questions cover just one of its ten areas.

ALMOST THERE — A LITTLE ABOUT YOU

A few quick taps so we can tailor your result. Optional — skip any you'd rather not answer.

Get your full, personalised breakdown

All four areas scored, every priority move for your situation, and a plan tailored to whether you keep, hand over, or sell — plus first access to the tools that take you there.

No spam, ever. Your details are never sold. One email with your breakdown, then only occasional, useful notes.

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Your personalised breakdown is on its way. In the meantime, the most useful next step is to see what a business that doesn't depend on you actually looks like — that's exactly what the Data Room Checklist maps out.

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Re-take this in 90 days and watch your score climb — that movement is the whole point.

Where Succedro takes you
A business that runs without you. A family that stays whole. A legacy that outlasts you.

Most advisors stop at the money. Succedro protects two things at once — the value of what you built, and the peace of the family who built it with you. Because if the business doubles but the family stops speaking, we've failed.

1See clearlyYou just did. Now you know exactly where you stand — and what it's costing you.
2Make it transferableGet your time back and make the business able to run, sell, or be handed over — on your terms.
3Protect the familyA neutral voice that says the hard things — so the business never burns down the dinner table.

"We don't just transfer wealth. We transfer the ability to sleep at night."

Tamas Csikvari
A note for you

For 25 years, companies brought me in to look at them honestly — as a management consultant, interim manager and auditor (CISA, CISM), for names like Arthur Andersen, KPMG, Vodafone, Volvo and Wizz Air. Never to flatter anyone. Just to see what’s really there, say it straight, and leave the place better than I found it.

So let me be straight about what this is. I’m not going to promise I’ll fix every flaw in your business — that promise is always bigger than anyone can keep, and it’s how you spot someone selling you something. What I do is simpler: I help you step out of the owner’s seat and look at your company the way an objective auditor does — which territories actually deserve your attention, and where you stand against the market standard.

For the friction of a small price, you get most of that professional read — call it 80% of the value. And where you fall short, you get the workarounds: follow them, and you can close the value gap by double digits on what your business is worth.

That’s it. No hype, no rescue promised — just an honest look, a baseline against the standard, and the moves to close the distance. I’m here to serve, not to sell you a false illusion.

— Tamas Csikvari · LinkedIn ↗
The Professional Audit

See exactly where you stand — and what it's quietly costing you.

The free snapshot you just took is a sample — eleven questions on one thing: how much runs through you. The Professional Audit asks the deep questions across all ten areas of your business, and benchmarks your “normal” against the standard a buyer or successor actually uses:

You & how much runs through you How the work actually gets done Your team & who can step up The culture — yours, or the business's? Direction & competitive edge Customers, sales & who owns the relationships The numbers — health & credibility Legal, ownership & hidden risks Stepping back, handover & continuity Your life & money beyond the business

Every area scored, the gap named on each point — with the value at risk — and a single prioritised roadmap out. What you get:

A sample of your report — a real example, anonymised. The specifics unlock when you take the audit.
SUCCEDRO · PROFESSIONAL AUDIT
Example: a light-engineering firm — 28 staff, €3M revenue
Overall standing: Key-Man Risk — the business still leans heavily on the owner.
Operational dependency
your normal ●●○○   sellable ○○○○
Decisions above a modest limit all route back to the owner; a buyer reads this as concentration risk and prices in roughly a 15–25% discount on the multiple — here, about €xxx,000 of value at risk.
Knowledge & transferability
your normal ●●●○   sellable ○○○○
The core know-how lives in the owner's head and scattered files. Undocumented process is the first thing diligence probes and a direct hit to the multiple. Your first move here: capture the five most owner-dependent tasks as simple one-page how-tos.
People & succession
your normal ●●●●   sellable ○○○○
No tested, willing successor is in place; this predicts a long earn-out or a broken transition. Name a credible second-in-command and have the honest conversation about whether they actually want the role.
Your prioritised roadmap — highest leverage first
  1. Write the one-page “if the owner vanishes for two weeks” plan: who decides what, to what limit.
  2. Turn the five most owner-dependent tasks into simple one-page how-tos.
  3. Name and start developing a credible second-in-command; have the honest successor conversation.
€290€149
FOUNDING RATE · THE FIRST 10 OWNERS

A personally-reviewed audit of your business against the full framework, with your prioritised roadmap. The first ten are €149; after that it's €290.

Reserved — you're on the founding list. I'll be in touch personally to arrange it. — Tamas
No charge now. You're reserving a founding place — we'll arrange payment and scheduling by email.
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