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Project Oak

By Order of the Directors

Location: UK

Offers Invited: An early sale of the business and assets is being sought, with indicative offers requested by 3:00pm,Thursday 22nd October 2026. Quantified, best and final, unconditional offers by 15:00 Thursday 5th November 2026

BACKGROUND

An opportunity exists to acquire the business and assets, of a long-established and sector recognised company who specialise in building the software, systems and services organisations use to find, assess and onboard entry level talent.

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

  • Established in 2008
  • Remote team of approximately 20 employees operating across the UK.
  • An award-winning technology solutions business offering employers, educators, colleges and training providers a platform, comprising of five products, allowing entities to identify, assess and onboard school leavers, apprentices, graduates and career changes.
  • Proprietary platform developed in-house using .NET 8, and hosted on Microsoft Azure. Integrated suite of five products covering candidate attraction, assessment, applicant tracking, onboarding and virtual work experience. Generates a single evidence-based candidate record, replacing traditional CV-led recruitment processes. Provides applicant tracking, apprenticeship eligibility management, right-to-work verification and job board integration.
  • Delivers client-branded careers hubs and virtual work experience programmes as well as an early talent jobs board that have generated over 16-million-page visits and 1.1 million registrations.
  • Ability to take work experience engagement and projects to generate candidate evaluation covering intent, communication, critical thinking and learning agility tailored to a range of roles.
  • Blue chip client base including major UK and international organisations, with high levels of repeat business.
  • Right to pursue ongoing work-in progress and existing contracts (c. £230k) and quoted works (c.£3.7 million) across approximately 168 projects.
  • Holds ISO 27001, ISO 9001 and Cyber Essentials Plus certifications, demonstrating strong governance, quality and security standards.
  • Positioned for growth through scalable technology-led solutions addressing increasing demand for evidence-based and AI-resistant candidate assessment.
  • Turnover:
    • £2.197m      (Y/E Dec 22)
    • £2.439m      (Y/E Dec 23)
    • £2.454m      (Y/E Dec 24)
    • £1.961m      (Y/E Dec 25)
    • £932k           (YTD Jan - Aug 26)
NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT

If you would like more information about this company and to register your interest please complete and sign the attached non-disclosure agreement and return it to jhills@lsh.co.uk
IMPORTANT

This briefing sheet contains information supplied by company personnel. LSH provides no warranties or indemnities in respect of such information. All interested parties must rely on their own investigations when reviewing this opportunity.

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