What owners usually ask.

You can. Buyers, their CPAs, and their lenders still will not. The risk is not missing a listing portal. The risk is a leaked sale, a bad recast, and a letter of intent that falls apart in diligence. If the company is small and the buyer is already at the table, we will tell you whether you need us.

Blind teasers, NDA before the name and the CIM, proof they can close, a short buyer list, staged tours, and a planned conversation with anyone in the building. Most files never appear on the listings page. The full practice.

Not from us, and not from a public listing unless you choose that. The file stays in a small room until a serious letter of intent. There is still a moment when a manager has to be told. We plan that moment instead of improvising it.

A recast of earnings, the quality of those earnings, how much of the company is you, the lease or the building, and what similar Florida companies have actually sold for. It is not a multiple you heard at lunch. We will write you a range. See valuation.

Success-based compensation is the norm. It is written into the listing or engagement agreement before we go to market. We do not take large upfront marketing fees to “get you out there.” Exact terms are a conversation, not a webpage.

A prepared company can move in a few months. An unprepared one can take a year of cleanup before a listing is honest. Landlords, SBA, and Florida real estate have their own clocks. We will tell you which clock you are on.

Because the headline price is not what you keep. Asset versus equity, purchase-price allocation, installment paper, recapture, and the basis a buyer can recover all change after-tax cash for both sides. A broker who cannot read a return will miss that. We sit in the brokerage seat as tax people who close mergers and acquisitions, and we structure the file so more profit stays in the seller’s pocket and the buyer’s.

No. Tax returns and opinion letters stay with the CPA of record. Foundry is the brokerage. What you get here is principals who already do that tax work, so the purchase agreement is written to match the plan instead of fighting it in April.

Florida treats the sale of a business as a real estate transaction. Leases, buildings, and going concerns often close together. Unlicensed “consulting” around that line is how people get in trouble. Our principals are licensed realtors and CPAs.

A foundry does not invent the metal. It heats it, cleans it, and pours it into a form that will hold. That is how we treat a closely held company: recast, then transfer, so the going concern can change hands without cracking. The name is a clean brand for an independent brokerage, on purpose. The longer version.

No. Foundry is an independent brokerage practice, on purpose, so the sale of a company is not mixed with the long work of keeping the books.

Gainesville is home. North Florida is the natural market. When the file or the buyer lives further out, we still go. We are not a national franchise with an office in every suburb.

Because a buyer at the table is not a close. Someone still has to recast the books, structure the letter, keep the crew from finding out, and get it through diligence and a landlord. If the relationship is already too far along, we will say so and stay narrow.

Yes. Same standard: tax returns, not teasers. If you are funded and you know the kind of company you want, we will search on-market and off-market. See buy a business.

Only if we both decide a public listing helps and does not name you in a way that harms the file. Most work never appears on the listings page. That is a feature.

A name, whether you are an owner or a buyer, and one line about the company. Tax returns can wait until we have spoken. Do not email a customer list.