Value Growth Advisory · Bozeman, Montana

Know what your business
is actually worth.

For Mountain West business owners who've built something real — and want to understand what it would take to sell well, when the time comes.

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Austin Evans, CEPA
Austin Evans
Value Growth Advisor
I help owners understand what their business is worth today, what it would take to sell it well, and whether the proceeds will actually fund the life they want afterward.
CEPA Bozeman, MT Mountain West
The Method

Three questions every owner eventually asks.

Most owners don't wake up one morning and decide to sell. They arrive at it slowly — first with curiosity, then with questions they don't know how to answer. ClearPath is built around the three that matter most.

— No. 01
"What is my business actually worth?"
The Business Value Snapshot
Fifteen minutes, eight operating categories, a directional valuation at three tiers, and a prioritized roadmap of the value drivers moving the number most. Free, confidential, and without obligation.
— No. 02
"Am I ready to sell — and is the business?"
The Three-Legged Stool
Every successful exit rests on three legs: the business ready to transfer, the owner ready to let go, and the finances ready to support what comes next. Weak on any one and the whole thing tips.
— No. 03
"Will the sale be enough to fund my life?"
The Wealth Gap
Nearly four in five owners plan to retire on the proceeds of a business sale. The math often doesn't work. The Wealth Gap is the difference between what you'll actually need and what your sale is likely to produce — and closing it is usually the whole point of the work.
Who I Work With

Real businesses. Real owners. No theater.

The owners who benefit most from this work are often the ones who've been told they don't need it — because they built a good business the hard way. If any of this sounds like you, we should talk.

The Business
$2M to $10M in revenue. Seven to fifty employees. Profitable and durable — often more durable than the owner realizes.
The Industries
Home services and trades, professional services, and owner-operated specialty firms. HVAC, plumbing, electrical, remodeling, landscaping. Work that will always exist.
The Owner
Typically fifty-five or older. Thinking about the next chapter but not ready to name a date. Wants the decision to be theirs.
The Geography
Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Nevada. The Mountain West — where work still feels like work.
A note on how most owners find me
Usually through their CPA, their financial advisor, or someone they trust who has already noticed that the conversation has moved beyond the tax return. If that's how you found this page, you're in good company.
About

Built on two decades of running the work.

Before starting ClearPath, I worked in finance, accounting, sales, and operations. I've been an owner-operator, which means I know what it feels like to have most of your net worth, most of your time, and most of your identity wrapped up in a business you're not entirely sure how to exit from cleanly.

That experience is why ClearPath exists. The advisory profession has done a reasonable job serving businesses worth fifty million and up. It has largely ignored the far more common owner — the one with a real, profitable, seven-figure business and no clear plan for what happens in the next five, ten, or fifteen years.

I'm a Certified Exit Planning Advisor through the Exit Planning Institute, which is the formal credential behind much of what shows up on this site — the Three-Legged Stool, the Wealth Gap, the Four Intangible Capitals, the Value Acceleration Methodology. The frameworks are rigorous. The delivery is plainspoken.

Most owners don't need another opinion. They need a structured read on where they actually stand — and a credible path from here to there. Austin Evans, CEPA
Start Here

The Business Value Snapshot.

Fifteen minutes of honest answers, and you'll leave with a directional read on what your business is worth, where the biggest value drivers sit, and how close the current valuation is to funding the life you want afterward.

Fifteen Minutes
Free & Confidential
No Obligation