The Agency Value Engineer
If you own a creative agency or consultancy, we engineer and realise the equity value you've built. Our three systems approach - growth, operations, management - shapes the things buyers pay a premium for.
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I founded Hunter Hawes & Co because, when I was buying agencies myself, I saw how confusing, stressful and generally hideous the process was to many agency owners.
While a transaction can be genuinely life-changing financially, money is just one piece of the puzzle. What about the culture you built so carefully? What about the dreams and aspirations of your team members? How are the promises you made to them going to be kept? This is your legacy. How will it be protected?
I majored on these things when I was buying. Now, I’m committed full-time to helping agency owners solve the full puzzle too. People, culture, promises, clients and you.
We live and breathe the sector. We come from it; we're still in it. It's all we do.
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Be confident you're getting the very best deal for you, not just what's easily available. Our experience brings creativity to deal making and we like to think we can secure deals others can't see.
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Every deal is a human story, especially in agency. In our sector, deals only succeeds when human outcomes matter as much as EBITDA multiples, earn outs and spreadsheets.
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Our clinical processes ensure no value is left on the table. We focus on EBITDA multiple optimisation and rigorous due diligence for both buyers and sellers.
Growth System
Buyers don't pay for revenue, they pay for revenue that won't walk. Engineer growth that holds.
Operations System
Buyers don't pay for your showreel. They pay for the system that keeps producing genius. Systemise the operations behind your superpowers.
Management System
Great agencies are built on more than numbers - culture, leadership, how people grow. Codify the DNA that makes the business worth owning.
Most owners spend their time trying to grow EBITDA. The ones who sell well also work on the multiple.
A conversation about what your agency is worth today, what would move that number, and whether we're the right people to help.
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Achieving Peak Exit
When you've built a business that runs without you, with revenue that's durable and EBITDA that survives a buyer's adjustments, you control the timing and terms of any sale. That's a peak exit. We all know agency owners who exited at peak; we also know not everyone gets a peak exit. But the choice isn't peak or nothing. Every agency is saleable. To whom? At what price? On what terms? That's where we really earn our spurs.
We see what others don't. We know which buyers want what. We get you as close to peak exit as your timeline allows.
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