Revenue quality
How recurring, concentrated, contracted, and transferable is the cash flow?
From operating intelligence to seller readiness
Know what a buyer will see
before you decide to sell.
Cashflow Routes maps how operating businesses create and protect cash flow. Exit Desk applies Mike Ye’s buyer-side judgment to your specific company—so you can see valuation drivers, diligence pressure, and readiness gaps before a buyer controls the conversation.
The relationship
Two distinct lenses. One founder.
Cashflow Routes is an independent reference map for understanding operating-business economics, evidence, diligence, and transferability.
Exit Desk is a separate, affiliated product on MikeYe.com. It helps an owner examine one specific company through the lens of a prospective buyer.
Both were founded by Mike Ye. The properties are related, but they are not interchangeable: route-model research does not become a company valuation, and an Exit Desk analysis does not replace primary diligence or licensed professional advice.
What buyers underwrite
Operating strength only matters when it transfers.
The route can be attractive while the company remains difficult to buy. Buyers test the difference.
Owner dependence
Does the business operate through a system—or through the owner’s relationships and daily decisions?
Evidence readiness
Can financial, customer, operating, and legal claims survive buyer diligence?
Buyer universe
Which strategic, financial, local, and individual buyers could credibly own the business next?
Valuation pressure
Which risks may reduce price, change structure, or increase the buyer’s required protection?
Transition risk
What must transfer at closing for customers, employees, vendors, and performance to remain intact?
Where each property fits
Map the route. Then inspect the company.
Understand the operating model
Review demand, capital needs, operating cadence, evidence, diligence questions, value-creation levers, and exit paths across fifteen cash-generating business routes.
Explore the route index →Understand your seller readiness
Apply a buyer lens to your revenue quality, owner dependence, buyer universe, valuation pressure, diligence risks, AI exposure, and next actions before a sale process begins.
Explore Exit Desk ↗Mike Ye’s buyer-side lens
Built from consequence, not theory.
Mike Ye’s work spans 25 years, more than 75 transactions, and over $7.4B in transaction value. Exit Desk translates that pattern recognition into structured pre-market preparation for small business owners.
Those experience figures describe Mike Ye’s career history. Exit Desk provides indicative scenarios and readiness analysis—not a guaranteed outcome or certified valuation.
Entity and product clarity
Frequently asked questions
Are Cashflow Routes and Exit Desk the same business?
No. They are distinct but affiliated properties founded by Mike Ye. Cashflow Routes is an independent operating-business intelligence surface. Exit Desk is the seller-side buyer-lens exit-readiness product hosted on MikeYe.com.
Does Cashflow Routes value my company?
No. Cashflow Routes publishes evidence-backed operating-model maps and illustrative underwriting scenarios. It does not value a specific company, list businesses for sale, or provide investment advice.
What does Exit Desk provide?
Exit Desk provides a pre-market buyer-lens analysis of a specific owner’s business, including indicative valuation scenarios, readiness risks, buyer concerns, diligence pressure points, and practical next actions.
Is Exit Desk a certified appraisal or brokerage service?
No. Exit Desk is decision-preparation and buyer-intelligence work. It is not a certified appraisal, fairness opinion, brokerage, legal, accounting, or tax service.
Before the buyer sets the frame
See your business
from the other side.
Start with the free 90-second assessment, then decide whether a full buyer-lens analysis is useful.
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