About

A quieter kind of exit advisory.

Ian Roundell

Founder · Chartered Accountant

Twelve-plus years advising UK owner-managed businesses through the transitions that matter — value creation, succession, and exit. Chartered accountant. Formerly advising institutional investors in the City. Founder-owner of an advisory business since 2013.

Architect Your Exit is the next chapter of that work — focused entirely on the exit itself, and on the owners for whom this one transaction defines a career.

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Why this exists

Most SME exit advice is transactional. A broker takes the business to market, runs a process, and takes a percentage of whatever completes. The incentive is a deal — any deal — not the outcome the owner actually wanted.

Architect Your Exit is built differently. Fee-for-service throughout, aligned to establishing and achieving what you're actually trying to do. No transaction completion fee, so the advice can honestly say "not yet" or "not that way" when it needs to.

How the work is done

• The owner's objectives come first.Price matters. So does what happens to the team, the customers, the building, the family. The Blueprint sizes every route against what you actually want — not the highest headline number.
• Small book, close attention.Four concurrent clients is the ceiling. You get the founder, not a junior in a firm. Every engagement is bespoke — no productised process pretending to fit every business.
• Substance over theatre.Not a broker. Not corporate finance. Not another list of buyers. The work is unglamorous: fixing earnings quality, closing dependencies, aligning shareholders — long before any of it becomes visible in a deal room.
• Honest about what this isn't.Architect Your Exit is not regulated to give valuation or investment advice, and doesn't try to be. Some owners need a different kind of adviser. Part of the first conversation is saying so if it applies.