Private · Matt Southam · September 2026

Working papers

Everything built for the separation of Full Range Fitness and B3 Business, in one place. The calculator is the live one; the rest is supporting work and background.

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Both businesses valued separately, with the balancing payment at the end. Four preset positions — Balanced, the offer as it stands, Matt’s position, Nathan’s position — and every judgement call exposed as a control. Loads on Balanced.

proposal.strongersystems.uk — safe to send to Mark or Richard. No login, not indexed by search engines.

Documents to send

Clean Break Proposal PDF
the full letter to Nathan, in his voice rather than an accountant’s: what each business is worth, the close calls settled his way, and what happens on completion. Not yet sent
8 pages
Mid-Point Proposal PDF
the same letter swung to neutral on the two open questions, as a fallback position
8 pages

Both are PDFs you can attach to an email or hand over. Figures in them predate the latest corrections in the calculator, so the calculator is the source of truth on numbers.

Background and workings

These are private pages on your Claude account. They open for you; anyone else needs the share menu on each page first.

Five Views of One Deal
the whole valuation in charts and tables: how the gym’s profit is built, where the two half-shares land, what the audit of every input found, and what each of five advisers would sign
Analysis
FRF and B3 Settlement
the full model with every switch, including the ones the calculator now fixes. Deeper than the calculator and harder to read
Model
Full Range Fitness Buyout
the gym on its own: six years of accounts, where the money went month by month, the purchases arrangement in detail
Gym
B3 Business Buyout
B3 on its own: four years of growth, the Stripe record, who pays B3, and the sensitivity of Nathan’s half to the multiple and the discount
B3
Clean Break Proposal
the letter as a web page, if you would rather send a link than a PDF
Letter
Mid-Point Proposal
the neutral version of the letter, same format
Letter
Five Ways Out
the structural options beyond a straight swap: buyback, liquidation, strike-off, staged payment
Options
The Southam File
the underlying record: where every figure came from and which source it sits in
Sources

Where the numbers come from

Full Range Fitness accountsyears to 31 March 2021 to 2026, plus the QuickBooks ledger and three balance sheets
B3 Business accountsyears to 31 May 2023 to 2026, the last one draft
Metro Bank statementsboth companies, December 2020 to September 2026, every month
StripeB3’s charges, payouts and subscriptions since June 2024
Nathan’s own schedule91 purchases the company made for him, 13 March to 9 August 2026
Payroll recordsboth directors and Lauren

Nothing anywhere is estimated from memory.