NCKTR / OPERATIONS & EXIT READINESS
You built a trades business. Find out whether it runs, or sells, without you.
Grow it, step back from it, or sell it. Start with what your documents prove.
Built by Darren Padgett, Jr., who grew up in the trades and exited his own plumbing and heating company.
THE PATH
Grow it. Step back. Sell it.
Build systems that work without you.
STEP BACK →Get your time back without losing momentum.
SELL IT →See what a buyer will find.
Health Score
3 minutes, free
What you think
02Readiness Review
20 minutes, free
What your answers suggest
03Readiness Diagnostic
10 business days
What your documents prove
04Readiness Build
12 weeks
Your team fixes it
05Readiness Retainer
Months 4–12
The bench and the proof
Every path starts in the same place: what your documents prove.
TAKE THE HEALTH SCORETHE READINESS DIAGNOSTIC
An instinct is not evidence.
The Health Score is what you think. The Readiness Diagnostic is what your documents prove. We examine five dimensions across 25 criteria, then give you the evidence, the gaps and a practical order for fixing them.
SEE THE DIAGNOSTICWHAT IT COSTS · STANDALONE DIAGNOSTIC
One fixed fee for the whole engagement, quoted in writing after a 20-minute Readiness Review.
No retainers. No hourly billing. No ongoing commitment.
Nothing begins until you have the exact scope and the exact price in writing.
If you don't think the diagnostic was worth what you paid, tell us within 30 days of your review call and we'll refund the full fee. No argument and no questions.
WHY NCKTR EXISTS
I've sat in the owner's chair.
I grew up in the trades. I built a plumbing and heating company to $1.1 million, ran it, and exited it internally.
From the inside, it looked like success. Looking back, I didn't have anyone to show me what I didn't know about running it as a business.
Most trades owners are in that same seat. NCKTR exists to show you the gap plainly, with the evidence in front of you, and then help your own people close it.
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