How the pricing works — and why it works the way it does.
Our return comes through the brokerage, when your business closes.
So the pricing is at cost — what we pay our people, passed through to you with no markup.
Before you commit to anything
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What you pay
Every other provider you have hired — the marketing agency, the coach, the fractional COO — made money whether or not your business sold for more.
Litefirm charges the actual hourly cost of the person doing the work. Nothing is added.
per hour, depending on role and project complexity
Your monthly tier is a credit balance drawn against that rate. No markup sits between the rate and the price you pay.
Cost of the same hour of work
That is 2.5 times what you pay Litefirm. The difference is their overhead, their profit margin, and the cost of managing offshore talent.
At cost on the Synergy path
The at-cost rate applies while your engagement is on the path to selling through Synergy Business Brokers.
Choose a different broker and standard market-rate pricing applies.
Not the cheapest offshore option
The team is hired through a process that includes cognitive assessment. Benjo Tecson, the lead implementer, scored in the top 3% among 30+ candidates tested.
The rate reflects that.
The monthly tiers
Each tier is a monthly credit balance drawn against the at-cost rate.
Essential
~80 hours / month
About half of one implementer’s capacity.
Best for: Focused, single-track project work.
Standard
Most common~160 hours / month
About one full implementer.
Best for: The most common engagement structure.
Accelerated
~320 hours / month
About two implementers working in parallel.
Best for: Businesses with multiple preparation tracks at once.
- Credits draw down as work is performed each month.
- Monthly reports show exactly which hours went to which projects.
- Unused credits roll over for up to three years, covering the full at-cost period. No use-it-or-lose-it pressure.
of the commission
What you pay is applied against the commission
When your business sells through Synergy, the credits you paid Litefirm are applied against the commission at closing, up to 15% of it.
For most engagements that returns the full amount.
You were going to pay a brokerage commission whenever you sold. This model puts years of implementation work inside a cost you had already accepted.
What the preparation costs you is not money. It is choosing your broker before the work starts rather than after it ends.
If the business does not sell, or you sell through another broker, this does not apply.
Yes, the model is tied to Synergy. Here is the full explanation.
That is not a hidden condition — it is why the pricing is possible. You choose your broker.
Both options are stated here before you commit to anything. We'd rather be upfront than have you discover it later.
If you choose Synergy
At-cost pricing. Credits applied against the commission at closing, up to 15% of it.
If you choose another broker
You can still use Litefirm, at standard market rates.
Is this model designed to lock me into using Synergy Business Brokers as my broker?
Synergy collects no money until the business closes. Litefirm earns no profit on credit payments — they pass through at cost.
Our return comes when the sale closes through Synergy, so our interest is identical to yours from the day the engagement begins.
What you see in monthly reports
Which hours went to which projects, which people did the work, and the actual hourly rates those people are paid — line by line.
If the claim is that no markup exists, the monthly report is where you confirm it.
Ashish Bhatt
Licensed M&A broker
The diagnostic is free. The implementation is at cost. Our return comes when yours does.
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