# BusinessExit.ca > BusinessExit.ca is a Canadian business consulting service, part of the Sedighi.ca and SAZ.ca group. Owners of owner-led Canadian businesses, in every province and territory, who expect to sell, hand over or step back within one to five years BusinessExit.ca is part of the Sedighi.ca and SAZ.ca group of companies, a Canadian business headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, led by Ali Sedighi, MBA. Coverage: Canada. Contact: call or text (604) 632-4959, or email Ali@Sedighi.ca. There are no forms: call, text or email only. ## Key pages - [Home](https://businessexit.ca/): BusinessExit.ca helps owners of Canadian owner-led businesses prepare for a sale, a family handover or a management buyout, so the company holds up when a buyer, lender or successor looks closely. - [Services](https://businessexit.ca/services/): Most owners need the assessment first, then one or two of the other four services depending on their route and timeline. This page explains how to choose. - [Areas](https://businessexit.ca/areas/): We work with owners in every province and territory. The readiness method is the same everywhere, but the paperwork around a sale changes at provincial borders, so each region has its own page. - [About](https://businessexit.ca/about/): BusinessExit.ca is the exit-readiness practice of the Sedighi.ca and SAZ.ca group, led by Ali Sedighi, MBA. We prepare owner-led businesses for a sale or handover; licensed professionals handle the legal, tax and valuation work. - [Results](https://businessexit.ca/results/): Our published results come from growing owner-led HVAC companies. They are not exit results. They show the method that also makes a business easier to sell: measured growth, documented systems and a brand that stands on its own. - [Pricing](https://businessexit.ca/pricing/): We use the Sedighi.ca group's consulting rates: hourly advice, fixed-scope projects and monthly retainers, in Canadian dollars. Your first 30 minutes with us cost nothing, and no contract locks you in. - [FAQ](https://businessexit.ca/faq/): Short, direct answers to the questions owners ask most before starting exit readiness work, including what we are not, what it costs, and how long it takes. - [Contact](https://businessexit.ca/contact/): Call, text or email. The first 30-minute consultation is free and confidential, and you'll speak with a senior strategist, not a call centre. ## Services - [Deal preparation](https://businessexit.ca/services/deal-preparation/): When an offer or a serious buyer is close, we build the data room, prepare the business story, and help you understand the terms so your time with your lawyer is spent on decisions, not definitions. - [Readiness assessment](https://businessexit.ca/services/exit-readiness-assessment/): A structured review that shows how your business would look to a careful buyer today, scores each area, and ranks the fixes by impact and effort. - [Owner independence](https://businessexit.ca/services/owner-independence/): If the business still runs through you, a buyer sees risk. This plan moves relationships, decisions and know-how onto people and written systems, on a timeline a buyer can see. - [Succession routes](https://businessexit.ca/services/succession-planning/): There are four realistic ways out of an owner-led business, and each needs different preparation. We help you compare them honestly, then coordinate with your lawyer and accountant on the legal and tax side. - [Valuation readiness](https://businessexit.ca/services/valuation-readiness/): We help you turn your financial history into numbers a buyer, lender or Chartered Business Valuator can trace and believe. We do not value the business ourselves. ## Coverage - [Alberta](https://businessexit.ca/areas/alberta/): Alberta sellers skip the provincial sales tax step that BC, Saskatchewan and Manitoba have, but WCB-Alberta places a clearance responsibility on buyers, and Calgary and Edmonton behave like separate markets. - [British Columbia](https://businessexit.ca/areas/british-columbia/): BC is our home province. Sellers here have one rule that surprises many owners, the PST clearance certificate, plus sharp differences between Lower Mainland, Island and Interior markets. - [Manitoba](https://businessexit.ca/areas/manitoba/): Manitoba sellers deal with a retail sales tax bulk sale clearance certificate, and most of the province's buyer pool is in and around Winnipeg. Good preparation makes both easier. - [New Brunswick](https://businessexit.ca/areas/new-brunswick/): New Brunswick sellers work with HST rather than a separate provincial sales tax, a bilingual market, and a buyer pool spread across a few mid-sized cities, which makes internal succession a frequent route. - [Newfoundland and Labrador](https://businessexit.ca/areas/newfoundland-and-labrador/): Most outside buyers look at the St. John's area, while businesses in central Newfoundland, the west coast and Labrador more often pass to managers or family. Distance and weather shape both the numbers and the handover. - [Nova Scotia](https://businessexit.ca/areas/nova-scotia/): Halifax holds most of Nova Scotia's outside buyers, while businesses in Cape Breton, Truro and the South Shore more often pass to managers or family. Preparation should start from that reality. - [Ontario](https://businessexit.ca/areas/ontario/): Ontario has the deepest buyer pool in the country and one sale-specific step sellers should plan for: the WSIB purchase certificate in an asset deal, which must be requested before the sale date. - [Prince Edward Island](https://businessexit.ca/areas/prince-edward-island/): On the Island, the likely buyer is often someone you already know, and many businesses run on a short, intense season. Both facts change how to prepare. - [Quebec](https://businessexit.ca/areas/quebec/): Quebec has its own enterprise register, its own sales tax, its own workplace health and safety commission, and a civil-law system for private matters. Preparation should be done with Quebec advisers and, usually, in French. - [Saskatchewan](https://businessexit.ca/areas/saskatchewan/): Saskatchewan has two clear sale steps: a PST final return and tax certificate from the seller, and a WCB clearance a buyer should hold before paying. Both reward a seller whose accounts are already clean. - [Territories](https://businessexit.ca/areas/territories/): Northern businesses face the thinnest buyer pools in Canada, so succession within the business or the community is often the most practical exit. That puts documentation and management depth at the centre of preparation. ## Guides and articles - [Guides](https://businessexit.ca/guides/): Three long-form guides that cover the timeline, the numbers and the documents, the three things that decide how smoothly a sale goes. Read them in that order if you are starting from scratch. - [Data room checklist](https://businessexit.ca/guides/data-room-checklist/): A data room is the organized set of documents a buyer's team reviews. Building it before anyone asks is the cheapest way to shorten diligence and avoid surprises. Here is a Canadian checklist, folder by folder. - [Normalized earnings](https://businessexit.ca/guides/normalized-earnings-add-backs/): Buyers don't price the profit on your tax return. They rebuild it to show what a new owner would earn. This guide shows how that works, with numbers, so you can prepare before they do it for you. - [Three-year runway](https://businessexit.ca/guides/three-year-exit-runway/): Three years is enough time to make most owner-led businesses genuinely ready to sell. This guide splits that time into stages and tells you what belongs in each one. ## Optional - [Full text](https://businessexit.ca/llms-full.txt) - [Parent company](https://sedighi.ca)