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Learn
You're the expert in your industry. Become a business expert and learn about the acquisition process in 5 hours with 60+ videos and exercises across 6 series.
Prepare
You're the expert operator. Get the tools to make the most of your company's success — across financials, operations, contracts, and tax.
Execute
You've decided to do a deal. Deploy a step-by-step plan — across negotiation, diligence, closing, and transition.

Torch Academy

Start with the basics

Short, clear explainers on the metrics and moves that matter when you're buying or selling a business.

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Readiness

Maximize your business's value

You don't have to be an expert in finance, operations, or law. Torch teaches you what matters, walks you through every step, and uses AI to do the heavy lifting.

Finance
Master your numbers
- Financial Recaster
  Turn three years of returns and P&Ls into a clean SDE/EBITDA schedule, with documented add-backs and a paper trail buyers can trust.
- Bookkeeping Diagnostic
  Reviews your books and flags what needs cleaning up.
- Valuation Calculator
  Anchors your valuation in real industry comps, then shows how changes in things like owner dependency and recurring revenue affect your multiple — and ultimately your value.
- Revenue, Margin and Tax Planner
  Surfaces the revenue-mix moves, real cost cuts, and tax-structure choices — asset vs. stock, installment, §1060 allocation — that change your value.
Operations
Build a self-sustaining business
- Standard Operating Procedure Builder
  Walks you through documenting how your business actually runs, step by step.
- Owner Dependency Audit
  Identifies the decisions that only you can make and walks you through handing them off — until your business can pass the vacation test.
- Customer Concentration Tracker
  Maps out where your revenue is concentrated and walks you through diversifying — until one or two customers can't put your business at risk.
Legal
Lower your risk
- Customer Contract Analyzer
  Flags change-of-control, assignment, termination, and exclusivity clauses across customer agreements — the language that quietly kills value.
- Lease Analyzer
  Flags term, assignment rights, rent-on-assignment, change-of-control, and landlord discretion. Outputs a negotiation checklist for your next conversation with the landlord.
- Risk Analyzer
  Surfaces the risks worth getting ahead of — from roles you can't lose to other weak spots in the business — and walks you through addressing them.

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Execution

Realize the value of what you've built

Most owners only sell once. Torch teaches you what to expect at every step, walks you through the deal end-to-end, and uses AI to do the heavy lifting.

Marketing
Find the right buyer
- CIM Builder
  Builds the polished deck serious buyers read to decide whether to make an offer.
- Blind Listing Generator
  Strips out the identifying details to create a public-safe version of your business profile.
- Buyer Qualifier
  Filters inquiries by fit and qualifies each one — so you only spend time on buyers who can actually close.
Deal
Negotiate and close
- Offer & LOI Workshop
  Compares offers side by side and walks you through structuring the letter of intent — including the terms most owners overlook until it's too late.
- Tax & Structure Modeler
  Models how the structure of the deal — how the price is allocated, paid, and taxed — affects what you actually take home.
- Diligence Manager
  Runs the full diligence sprint in one place — secure data room, request tracker, document checklist — so every moving piece stays organized.
- Closing Coordinator
  Tracks every moving piece in the final stretch to wire transfer — purchase agreement, third-party consents, escrow, signatures — so nothing slips through the cracks.
Transition
Hand off and move on
- Transition Manager
  Walks you through handing off the business to the new owner, step by step.
- Earnout Protector
  Tracks your earnout so you actually get what you were promised.
- Wealth & Tax Coordinator
  Helps turn a one-time sale into long-term wealth.
- Next-Chapter Resources
  Helps you figure out — and step into — what comes next.

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Learn

Prepare

Execute

Start with the basics

What Is SDE?

How to Sell Your Business Yourself

What Is an Earnout?

Maximize your business's value

Master your numbers

Build a self-sustaining business

Lower your risk

Realize the value of what you've built

Find the right buyer

Negotiate and close

Hand off and move on