---
title: IPO Readiness Assessment
description: Assess a company's readiness for a public listing across financials, governance, equity story and process — with a gap list and timeline.
category: Finance
sublabel: IPO & ECM
author: Predictive Labs
tags: ipo, ecm, public markets, readiness
---

# IPO Readiness Assessment

Evaluate whether a company is ready to list and produce a concrete gap list and timeline to
get there.

## When to use

- Considering an IPO vs. private alternatives.
- Planning a listing 12–24 months out and scoping the work.

## Inputs

- Financial history and the ability to report on a public cadence.
- Governance, board composition and internal controls.
- The equity story and comparable public companies.

## Steps

1. Test financial readiness: audit status, track record, forecasting reliability, controls.
2. Review governance: board independence, committees, policies, reporting maturity.
3. Pressure-test the equity story against public comparables and likely investor questions.
4. Map the process: advisers, workstreams, regulatory steps, indicative timeline.
5. Produce a prioritised gap list with owners and lead times.

## Output

A readiness scorecard by dimension, a prioritised remediation gap list, and an indicative
timeline to listing.


## Presenting results
- Present every result as one or more clear Markdown **tables** — one per section, each with a short heading.
- Keep prose minimal; put the substance in the tables.
- Offer the user a downloadable **PDF** (formatted) and **CSV** (the underlying rows), and generate them when asked.
- Never invent figures. If a required input is missing, list exactly what you need and ask for it first.