How do we coordinate our investment bankers, CPAs, and lawyers using the Advisor Meeting Pulse without driving up our billable legal hours?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

Running a clean exit requires your external advisors to work in alignment, but traditional management of these professionals often leads to redundant meetings and skyrocketing billable hours. We solve this by implementing the Advisor Meeting Pulse, which is a key discipline of the Step by Step Exit framework. Instead of you acting as a telephone game coordinator between your CPA, lawyer, and banker, we bring them together into a highly structured meeting. We run this meeting using a modified Level 10 Meeting™ format. We establish a clear scorecard, review their specific priorities, and run a rigorous IDS® process to solve multi-disciplinary issues. This structured environment keeps your advisors focused on the target value of your business and prevents them from over-analyzing minor details. Because the meeting has a strict agenda and a hard stop, your advisors arrive prepared and waste zero time on pleasantries or billable posturing. You get absolute alignment on your exit strategy, and you avoid the costly hours spent on back-and-forth emails between isolated firms. We coordinate this pulse efficiently so that every professional is working from the same page, saving you both time and significant advisory fees.