We've sat across the table from buyers more times than most founders meet them.
ExitWell is the curriculum, the network, and the back-channel coaching that founders wish they'd had before they signed an LOI. Whether you're aiming to retire, pivot, or just be ready when the time comes, ExitWell gives you the strategy, coaching, and expert insight to position your company, avoid costly mistakes, and exit with confidence.
Why we exist
Most founders sell a business exactly once. Buyers and their advisors run the same playbook hundreds of times a year. ExitWell levels that asymmetry — without forcing you into a transaction you don't yet want.
Where we sit
ExitWell is the founder-education arm of Candor Advisors, an investment bank that has closed nearly $1B of M&A in the last two years. The deal experience you read about here is the same experience Candor brings to the table for sell-side clients.
How we operate
Group cohorts, 1:1 coaching, and an evolving library of on-demand video. Live sessions are small enough that Kirk knows your name, your numbers, and what your buyer is going to ask three weeks from now.
Founder intuition, paired with deal-table reps.
ExitWell puts founders back in control by building on the instincts that made them successful. Our programs blend founder intuition with real-world expertise in private-company sales — a smarter, more confident approach to exiting your business, with the tools to level (or even tilt) the playing field in your favor.
We teach the tactics that drive better outcomes: building the right team, asking the right questions, and avoiding the predatory buyer patterns that first-time sellers don't see coming.
Kirk Michie developed ExitWell with 30+ years in capital markets and finance.
As an active participant in middle-market M&A, Kirk has been involved in nearly $1 billion of transactions in the past two years alone. His decades of reps — 60+ closed transactions, hundreds of due-diligence processes, and daily involvement in the sector — drive the curriculum at ExitWell.
Kirk is the founder of ExitWell and the architect behind its deal-focused curriculum.
He has more than 30 years of experience in capital markets and finance, with involvement in 60+ business transactions and 200+ due-diligence processes — and total capital raised exceeding $1 billion.
Kirk is also the founder and Managing Partner of Candor Advisors, where he advises founders through middle-market M&A.
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