About

The diagnostic means more when it comes from someone who has actually run the business.

Fenwick Partners isn't a valuation software company or an advisory firm trying to run your sale. It's an operator who has been on both sides of the table.

Brett Banchek

Founder, Fenwick Partners · Westchester, NY

I've spent my career as an Operator, inside businesses, scaling them at revenue levels from $1.0M to $1.0B. I've focused on driving valuation creation and building scalable systems. I've worked across a wide variety of industries including manufacturing, food and beverage, pharma, distribution, and luxury.

My goal is to change the typical Seller pattern. The Owner thinks their number is one thing. The buyer's team comes in, runs their due diligence, and finds three or four issues the Owner didn't know were there or knew about but assumed didn't matter. The price drops. The earn-out goes in. The gap between what was expected and what gets collected can be significant.

I built Fenwick Partners because I got tired of watching that happen to people who had worked too hard to leave that kind of money on the table. The $1,999 diagnostic is what I wish every owner had run before they ever started talking to a buyer. It doesn't take weeks, it doesn't cost $50,000, and it doesn't come from someone with an agenda to sell your company.

What this is — and what it isn't

Business brokers

Needs you to sell to get paid

Brokers have a financial interest in getting you to market. That's a conflict. Their valuation reflects what they need it to be, not what the market will bear.

Investment bankers

Runs the process, doesn't build the value

Bankers are excellent at running a sale. They are not in the business of getting inside your operations and fixing the things that determine what you're worth.

Fenwick Partners

An operator who tells you the truth

No deal fee unless we work together on an exit. No pressure to sell. The diagnostic exists to give you accurate information so you can make a good decision about what to do next.

For Owners who want to go deeper after the diagnostic: I work with a small group of business owners who want to drive value creation beyond what the report surfaces. The type of value creation I drove as an Operator.