What’s Your Number?

Every business owner has one…
Find who’d buy your business, what they’d pay, then plan for exit.
Start anonymous. Share more on your terms.
No cost, no preparation, no diligence.
Deal direct or appoint an advisor — all a click away.

54,327UK business sales, 2025

How many owners thought about selling — and never tried?

How many tried, spent money, waited — and still found no buyer?

See your buyers before they see you.
Why post a number

A signal, not a process.

Post anonymously. See who’s interested. Then decide — do nothing, deal directly with a buyer, or engage an advisor who now has real data to work with.

01

Skip the false start.

Don’t pay for pitch decks, valuations, or advisor retainers before you know the market wants you. Post your number anonymously. If nobody bites, you’ve spent five minutes — not five months.

02

See the shape of interest.

Who asks tells you what you need: is the number credible, are the buyers the right kind, is there a mandate here. The signal is what you came for — not the sale itself.

03

Then your next move is yours.

Ignore the approaches. Deal direct with a buyer. Or bring in an advisor who now knows your aspiration, how it aligns with the market, and who’s already interested. Nothing obligates you. Nothing is locked in.

Six steps · Start to first conversation

Find, claim, price — then choose what to share.

01
Find your company.
redway eng
REDWAY ENGINEERING LIMITED06241180
REDWAY ENGINEERING SERVICES LTD10337925
REDWAY ENGINEERING (UK)12554806
02
Claim your shareholder record.
03
Verify and post.
s.smith@acme.co.uk
Verified
04
Set your number. Or don’t.
Firm
Range
Don’t know
£ 4,200,000
or tell us you’re not sure yet
Post anonymously
05
See who asks.
3 new approaches
Hanover Partners LLP Lower-mid-market PE
M. Callaghan Individual MBI · operator
Kestrel Holdings Strategic acquirer
06
Reveal on your terms.
Seller identity
Exact revenue
Address
Customer list
Full financials
How reveal works

You control every reveal. Per person. Per moment.

Approval doesn’t mean everything. It means a conversation. Every identifying detail — name, address, exact numbers, customer list — is a toggle. Flip it for one buyer, keep it from another. Share it now, withhold it later.

Stage 1 · Conversation

You talk. They still don’t know you.

You approve the request. A thread opens. You see exactly who they are. They don’t see your name, your business, your numbers — anything. Ask questions. Judge intent. Give ground only when you’re ready.

Who they areVisible
Who you are
Exact financials
Address
Customer list
Stage 2 · Selective

Share what helps. Keep what matters.

Decide, per buyer, what to share next. Maybe the exact revenue figure, but not the customer list. Maybe the trading address, but not the website. Each field is its own decision — and each decision is audited.

Exact revenueShared
EBITDA historyShared
Legal name
Address
Customer list
Stage 3 · Full reveal

Only when you’re ready. Only if you say.

If the conversation has earned it, you open the last few fields: legal name, website, customers, full financials. Usually at the point a buyer is days from an LOI — not before. Still reversible; still yours.

Legal nameShared
AddressShared
WebsiteShared
Customer listShared
Full financialsShared

Every reveal is audited. Every download is watermarked. Revoke a single field, revoke the whole thing, or close the conversation — one click each.

Buyer pool

Find out who you should know.

Each firm below has acquired five or more UK businesses in the last three years. If you don’t recognise them, you probably should.

Why they post, browse, and pitch · Composite

Quiet signals, before a process begins.

SK
Sarah K.
I wanted to know whether the number in my head was credible before I spent months with a broker. Five minutes, completely anonymous. Turned out I was five hundred grand low.
JW
James W.
A quieter pipeline than we see through brokers. Real owners, thinking. We get in earlier, so there is more to solve — but with real time, everything is possible.
RA
Ruth A.
This is where I look when the warm leads run out. Sellers who are thinking, not yet committed. The ‘don’t know’ flag alone is worth the subscription — it tells me where I can add value instantly.
TF
Tom F.
Posted my number on a Tuesday. By Friday, six funds had asked. I haven’t shown my name to any of them yet. Walking away costs me nothing.
MW
Margaret W.
We see opportunities brokers wouldn’t bring to us yet — the early-stage ones. That’s the work. Brokers come in once the decision is taken; we want to be in the room before.
DM
David M.
My wife asked me ‘what would you actually sell for’ last summer. I didn’t know. Now I do — and I know which buyers would meet me there.
CL
Charlie L.
Three serious sellers in my first month. None of them were on any other platform. The masked listing is enough to tell me if it fits my mandate before I’ve burned a meeting.
IP
Ines P.
The masked listings filter out the noise. We can scan twenty in an hour, not two. If the band fits and the location works, we ask. Half the time, that’s the start of something.
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It takes minutes.
You can delete it just as quickly.