Private Equity Lens. Operating Partner Execution.

How Valuable Is Your Business… Really?

Most founders focus on revenue and profit. Sophisticated investors focus on asset quality, scalability, risk, and enterprise value.

This 3-minute assessment reveals how your business would likely be viewed through an investor and exit-readiness lens.

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UK & US Lower Mid-Market Private Equity Discipline Founder-Side Execution
40+
Acquisitions Advised
M&A, integration, and exit strategy across UK and US service businesses.
£250M
Capital Deployed
Deployed across founder-led businesses at the lower mid-market scale.
25 Yrs
Operating Experience
Spanning PE, VC, family office, sovereign wealth, and operational leadership.
Rob J Williams
Founder · Operating Partner
Built and exited his first business before spending over a decade alongside private equity firms, family offices, and founders across the UK and US.

"You may own a successful business. That does not automatically mean you own a valuable asset."

Most businesses are built to operate. Very few are built to be sold. The gap between a business that generates good income and one that commands a premium valuation is larger than most founders realise, and it is almost never about the headline numbers.

Fielding Global applies private equity discipline to founder-led businesses before a transaction is on the table, while there is still time to harden performance, fix risk, and expand value. The Business Asset Score is the entry point into that work.

The Library

The PE Guide Series for Founder-Led Businesses

A series of practical guides translating the framework private equity firms use to evaluate, build, and acquire businesses into language founders can act on. Each volume covers one of the operational areas that drives enterprise value.

Published by Rethink Press.

PE Guide
Business Valuation

How investors actually value founder-led businesses, what drives multiples up and down, and how to read your own valuation through their lens.

PE Guide
Reducing Owner Dependency

The single largest suppressor of valuation in founder-led businesses, and the structural moves that close it.

PE Guide
Exit Planning

Why exit planning starts the day you found the company, not the year you decide to sell.

PE Guide
Marketing

Building a marketing engine that runs without the founder and produces the predictability investors are willing to pay for.

PE Guide
Sales Performance

Turning a founder-led sales process into a systematic, measurable engine that holds its conversion rate without you in the room.

PE Guide
Pricing Strategy

The pricing moves that lift margin without losing the customer, and why most founder-led businesses leave significant value on the table here.

PE Guide
Cash Flow Management

How investors read cash flow, what they discount for, and the disciplines that make your numbers underwriteable a year ahead of any process.

PE Guide
Hiring & Talent

Building the second-tier leadership that lets the business operate, scale, and ultimately transact independently of the founder.

PE Guide
Raising Investment

What sophisticated investors look for, what kills deals, and how to position the business to attract capital on the right terms.

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Where Most Founders Start

Is Your Business Built for Income, Wealth, or Exit?

The Business Asset Score is the diagnostic we use before every Wealth & Business Design engagement. It evaluates the six areas that drive valuation, investor confidence, and exit readiness, and produces a personalised result with a clear next step based on where you land.