More profit now. More value when you choose to step back. Caelix finds what is holding your engineering firm back, then works alongside your team to fix it: documenting, simplifying and automating how the business runs.
15 questions · about 15 minutes · instant result
Sources: The Manufacturer · GOV.UK · Made Smarter. Not tax advice; speak to your accountant.
Most owners we speak to built a good business. The trouble is what a buyer, an investor or your own growth plan sees when they look closer.
Quotes, key customers and big decisions sit with the owner. Growth stops at your diary, and a buyer prices in the risk of you leaving.
Processes are on paper, whiteboards and memory. Lose one skilled person and deliveries slip. New staff take months to get up to speed.
Customer concentration, late management accounts and unclear job profitability all give buyers reasons to offer less or tie you to an earn-out.
The same improvements that make a business easier to run also make it worth more. You do not have to be selling to start; most owners begin because they want their time back.
The BVS scores your business from 0 to 100 across the areas buyers of engineering firms examine. It shows where value is leaking, and we re-score every 90 days so you can see it grow.
Plus a separate Owner Readiness rating: your own plans, not just the business’s.
Take the free BVS snapshot online, or join a free Business Gap Workshop with other owners. You leave with your score and your top three gaps.
A Gap Analysis and Solution Roadmap: an on-site day, the full 55-question BVS, process maps, an automation review and a costed plan.
We work alongside your team in 90-day cycles, closing two or three gaps each time and re-scoring as we go, until you choose to scale or exit.
Not a fit? We will tell you, and point you to someone who is. If you plan to sell within 12 months, a broker or corporate finance firm is the better first call.
Olu has spent his career leading digital transformation and process improvement programmes across complex, regulated organisations. He is a SAFe 6.0 Product Owner/Product Manager, a Certified Scrum Master and BCS-certified in business analysis, and he built the Business Value Score to give owners a clear, practical way to see and grow what their business is worth.
Both of Olu’s parents ran their own businesses, one of them a metal window and door workshop with apprentices, so he knows what it means when everything depends on the owner.
Olu is a volunteer mentor on the government-backed Help to Grow: Management Course, through the Association of Business Mentors, supporting SME leaders as they put their growth plans into action. View mentor profile
Based in Gloucestershire. Works with owners across the UK, online and on site.
For two UK engineering firms, in return for a short case study and permission to share anonymised before-and-after results.
No. Your accountant handles tax and the numbers. Caelix works on what buyers pay for: owner dependency, processes, systems and customer quality. We work alongside your accountant.
No. We do not sell businesses. We improve them first. When you are ready to sell, we bring in a regulated corporate finance firm to run the sale.
Yes. The same work makes the business more profitable and easier to run now. Many owners start because they want their time back.
Fifteen questions. An instant score. Your top three gaps. No obligation.