If you are prepping for an exit and margins feel tight, this story will show you how much cash you might be sitting on without knowing it.
A founder in my network runs a midsized service company. Margins were getting squeezed and he assumed he needed a major reset.
I told him about a simple ChatGPT prompt that forces the business to surface waste, rank it, and show the fastest savings.
He ran it that afternoon.
Less than one hour of work.
No restructuring.
No layoffs.
No slowdown in growth.
The analysis uncovered more than nineteen thousand dollars in monthly savings. At his projected multiple, that one conversation converted into over one point three million in enterprise value.
He did not reinvent his business. He just revealed and cleaned up the waste that had been hiding in plain sight.