Cordis Press
Imprint 002 · ● Live
The business imprint of Cordis House. Books for owners of founder-led businesses who are not selling, or not selling yet. New York · est. 2026.
Editorial statement
For the owner who is not selling.
Cordis Studio opened with a picture book about the people who do physical work. Cordis Press opens with a book for the people who own the companies those people work in.
There is no shortage of writing about selling a business. There is almost nothing for the owner who is not selling and has realised the number will be decided anyway, by someone else, at a moment of someone else’s choosing. That gap is the reason this imprint exists.
Its first title, Buyer-Ready, is Book One of The Off-Market Method. Every Press title is written to be used, not only read.
Who it is for
Written for the owner, useful to the advisor.
Owners
Founder-led businesses
Owners who have built something real and have never had it valued by anyone with a reason to be honest about it.
Not selling
Not yet, or not ever
Owners with no plan to sell who still have a bank, a family, a partner or an estate that will one day need the number.
Advisors
The people around them
Accountants, attorneys and wealth managers who are asked the valuation question and want a shared framework to answer it with.
The list
The full Press list.
Press · 001Now
Buyer-Ready
Ron Smith, CM&AA · The Off-Market Method, Book One
Sep 2026 · Cloth $37.99 · Paper $24.99 · Kindle $12.99
Press · WorkbookNow
Buyer-Ready: The Official Workbook
Ron Smith, CM&AA · ISBN 979-8-9984782-3-9
Oct 2026 · Paper $34.99 · Coil $42
The Buyer-ReadyPlaybooks
Press · Series2027
The Buyer-Ready Playbooks
Ron Smith, CM&AA · Six volumes
2027
The Buyer-Ready Playbooks, planned for 2027: six volumes. Volume 01, The Gap Table, is the instrument. Volumes 02 to 06 spell PRICE: Proof, Revenue, Independence, Continuity, Endgame. The full list →