A Membership-Based Pre-M&A Exit Advisory Firm

Get Your Business Ready to Sell.

Or Ready to Run Without You.

For profitable owners who plan to sell in the next five years. Your first call shouldn't be to a broker. By the time one is at the table, your valuation is mostly set. The Exiter Club™ is the firm you work with first, to raise what your business is worth and make it run without you, so you reach the market from a position of strength.

Built for founders of profitable US and Canadian businesses planning an exit within the next five years.

Our advisors and members have been featured in
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The Problem Every Successful Owner Faces

8 out of 10 businesses listed for sale never sell. The top reason is owner dependency.

You've built something real. Revenue is strong, the team is in place, and by every external measure you've won. But if the business can't run without you, a buyer isn't looking at an asset. They're looking at a job with you in the middle of it, and most of them walk away.

That's the problem The Exiter Club™ exists to fix. Our six specialist advisors use The XOS Method™ to move you out of daily operations one stage at a time, until the business runs, and sells, without you.

Who We Work With

Founders of profitable businesses in the US and Canada who plan to exit within the next five years. Profitability is the gate. There's no revenue minimum.


Where We Fit

We're not the banker.
We're who you see first.

By the time most founders sit down with an M&A advisor or a broker, the value of the business is already set. There's little left to do but take it to market.

The Exiter Club™ works in the years before that conversation, when there is still time to fix what buyers discount and build what they pay for. Two ways this ends well: your company becomes something worth buying, or it becomes something that runs without you. You decide which. We prepare you for either.

Exiter Club advisors working with member founders

The Core Idea

Most Founders Plan a One-Step Exit.
The Valuable Ones Take Two.

M&A experts report that buyers discount owner-dependent businesses by 30 to 50 percent. When the owner is critical to daily operations, the business is worth far less without them. The fix is a two-step exit.

01

Make It Owner-Independent

Over 12 to 18 months, we use The XOS Method™ to move you out of daily operations and close the gap buyers discount. This is the work almost no one does before going to market.

02

Take It to Market at Full Value

When your business is ready, you choose who takes it to market. We have trusted investment banking relationships if you need them, and if you came to us through your own advisor, banker, or broker, that relationship stays yours. You reach buyers from a position of strength, not urgency.

Reach owner-independence and decide to keep the business? That's a win too. It's Exit Without Exiting™, Stage 6 of the method, with the sale as Stage 7.


The Firm

Six Specialist Advisors.
One Integrated Strategy.

Exit preparation touches every part of a business at once, so no single advisor is enough. The Exiter Club™ is built around a team of six, each a specialist in one discipline of a well-run exit. They work alongside the professionals you already trust, with a single shared lens: how to prepare your business, and you, for the exit you want.

Jason Duncan
Exit Strategy Advisor · Founder of The Exiter Club
Jason Duncan

Creator of The XOS Method™ and author of Exit Without Exiting™. Leads your exit strategy, runs your engagement, and works with you on the operational moves that make the business independent of you.

Simone Bachaud
Finance Advisor · Founder, Clear Profit 365
Simone Bachaud, CPA

Founder of Clear Profit 365 and 20+ years as a CFO for growth-stage companies. Gets your financials clean, clear, and buyer-ready, and builds the profit visibility a transaction demands.

Spencer Williams
Business Valuation & M&A Advisor · Founding Principal, Madfarm Advisors
Spencer Williams

Founding Principal of Madfarm Advisors. Establishes your baseline valuation, tracks what moves it, and leads the transaction conversation when your business is ready for market.

Nick Thompson
Legal Advisor · M&A, Business & Tax Attorney
Nick Thompson, Esq.

Business, tax, and estates attorney with an LL.M. in Taxation. Finds the legal and structural issues that kill deals, and gets your house in order before a buyer's counsel does.

Amanda Neely
Wealth Management Advisor · CEO, Counterflow
Amanda Neely, CFP®

CEO of Counterflow, who co-founded and exited Overflow Coffee Bar. Plans the personal side of the exit, so the money the business becomes funds the life you're exiting into.

Neo Phalora
Mindset & Performance Advisor
Neo Phalora

Speaker, mentor, and human potential expert. Works on the founder, not the business: identity, fear, and the psychology of letting go, which is where most exits actually stall.


Proprietary Framework

The XOS Method™
Seven Stages to an Exit-Ready Business

The Exiter Operating System is a progressive, stage-based framework that makes a business genuinely exit-ready: worth buying, and able to run without its owner. Those two aren't at odds. The same work that prepares a company to sell is the work that frees you from it, whether you ever sell or not. Each stage builds on the last, drawn from the exact sequence our founder used to escape a business he'd built into a trap he couldn't sell.

Explore the Full Framework
  1. 01
    Basic Delegation
    Reclaim time by delegating delivery tasks you're currently doing yourself.
  2. 02
    Assembling Your Support Squad
    Build the operational layer that removes you from logistics and admin.
  3. 03
    Developing Your A-Team
    Empower leaders who make decisions and own outcomes without you.
  4. 04
    Mastering Systems & Automation
    The business runs on process, not heroics.
  5. 05
    Creating a Passive Profits Machine
    Predictable, growing profit independent of owner activity.
  6. 06
    Exit Without Exiting™
    Owner-independence. You remain owner but are no longer operator.
  7. 07
    The Ultimate Sale
    Optional. Maximize value and execute a transaction on your terms.
The XOS Method seven-stage framework, from Basic Delegation through Exit Without Exiting and The Ultimate Sale

What You Actually Join

An Advisory Firm and a Club

This is what sets The Exiter Club™ apart from a broker, a course, a mastermind, or a coaching group. You get a team of advisors guiding the work, and a private club of founders going through it right alongside you, meeting often to learn, hold each other accountable, and trade what actually works. The "Club" in the name is deliberate. Every client of the firm becomes a member of The Exiter Club.

Exiter Club founders and advisors together in a live working session
The Firm

Advisors in Your Corner

One-on-one guidance from specialists who prepare your business the way a buyer will judge it.

  • Kickstart Consultations – one-on-one sessions in your first 120 days to assess the business and build your plan.
  • Business Valuations – professional valuations that set a baseline and measure progress toward sellability.
  • Six Specialist Advisors – exit strategy, M&A, financial, legal, wealth, and mindset, working from one shared plan.
  • Preferred Partner Network – vetted providers with member-exclusive terms when the work calls for them.
The Club

A Room Full of Peers

A private community of founders on the same path, meeting often to learn from each other and keep each other moving.

  • Bi-Monthly Club Meetings – advisor-led training plus live XOS Roundtables for peer strategy.
  • Weekly Office Hours – open drop-in sessions to work through live questions in real time.
  • Live Events in Nashville – in-person workshops through the year with the team and your fellow founders.
  • Accountability & Shared Ideas – the peers, the pressure, and the collective playbook that keep you building.
Components above are included in standard membership. Session frequency, advisor availability, and specific participation details are set out in the Member Agreement provided at enrollment.

"Most small business owners don't have an exit strategy. They are the exit strategy. The day they step away, the business closes with them. An entrepreneur builds something different: an asset that works without them."

The Core Principle The Exiter Club™ Is Built On

Results

What Founders Say

Straight from founders doing the work inside their companies.

"

I started thinking like a builder, not just a doer. I raised up leaders inside my companies and created space to actually enjoy what I was building.

LL
Leon Leinbach
Founder, Blue Jay Garage Doors
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With your help, we finally got ourselves out of hero mode, stopped wearing the cape, and now we have three offers to buy our business so we can finally retire and spend our time with our kids and grandkids like we want to.

DT
Duane and Cathy Tinsley
Simply Computer Software
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The most valuable thing about The Exiter Club is that just one idea can change everything. Being around the right group of people is crucial.

JM
Dr. Justin Moseley
The Mindset Doctor Podcast
70+
Founders Served Since Founding
6
Specialist Advisors
7
Stages in The XOS Method™

Jason Duncan, founder of The Exiter Club
Why the Firm Exists

He Built an Unsellable Business.
Then He Built the System to Fix It.

Our founder's first company was profitable, growing, and completely dependent on him. When he went to sell, he learned it was unsellable. Over the next 18 months he systematized his own removal from operations, and that sequence became The XOS Method™. The Exiter Club™ exists so other founders can skip the trap entirely, with a full team behind them instead of doing it alone.


How to Start

It Starts With a Conversation

No forms, no fees, and nothing to prepare. The first step is a call with Jason about your business, and you leave with something useful whether we end up working together or not.

01

Book the Call

Grab a time that works. It's a working conversation with Jason about where your business is and where it's stuck.

02

Talk It Through

You and Jason look at the business the way a buyer would: what they'd flag, and what to fix first. You walk away with advice you can use the next day, whether or not you join.

03

Get an Honest Answer

If the firm fits, you get an invitation and the path forward. If it doesn't, Jason tells you that too, and points you at a better next step. No pressure either way.

Take the Next Step

Find out what to fix first.

Every strong exit starts years before the sale. The Exiter Club™ helps you use that time well. Apply now, and find out where you stand.

Built for founders of profitable US and Canadian businesses planning an exit within the next five years.