Three Pillars

We turn documents into decisions.
📄 Upload CIMs, PPMs, pitch decks
⚡ Get back clean models & investment decks
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Using Pillars, making last minute changes in formatting won't mess up your entire file anymore!

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Want to know how investors turn a company’s profits into its market value? 💰

In Part 2 of our EBITDA Multiples blog, we break down how finance professionals pick and justify multiples to value a business. From cash flow efficiency and growth potential to industry type and company size, we explain what really drives a company’s multiple and how public and private markets differ in pricing. We also defined and provided easy-to-understand formulas for direct drivers (discounted cash flow levers) and indirect signals (how market infers the lever).

If you’ve ever wondered why some companies are valued higher than others, this is a must-read. 🔍

Check out the full blog on our page! https://t.co/VjLEr8cEjC

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Behind every breakthrough at Three Pillars is a team of curious, driven minds.

Meet one of them — Maxim Meadow, a senior at Michigan State University currently in the BS/MS Computer Science program.

As a Software Engineer Intern at Three Pillars, Maxim is rebuilding our document processing system from the ground up, greatly increasing accuracy and expanding the range of supported document types. His work plays a key role in ensuring that messy, unstructured materials can be transformed into clean, reliable outputs analysts actually trust.

What Maxim enjoys most about the internship is the freedom to truly own his work: identifying problems, planning solutions, and implementing them end-to-end. Seeing the impact of those decisions across the full stack has been one of the most rewarding parts of the experience.

Outside of engineering, Maxim loves to travel and ski. Recently, he and eight of his fraternity brothers took a two-week trip across Japan, finishing with a ski trip to the second snowiest city in the world. ❄️⛷️

Maxim, along with the rest of the Three Pillars team, is building a cutting-edge platform that creates and polishes financial models in minutes.

Launch is just around the corner. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, warm up with our blog — featuring interactive guides on financial modeling, valuation, and industry analysis, all designed to turn real-world examples into practical skills: https://t.co/VjLEr8cEjC

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Before diving into valuation, it helps to understand EBITDA: Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization. Think of it as a lens on a company’s core operating profitability, independent of financing, taxes, or accounting quirks.
Adjusted EBITDA goes one step further. It removes one-time events like lawsuits, non-operating income or expenses, and unusual costs, revealing a company’s true, sustainable earnings power, the numbers investors can actually rely on.
📊 Our latest blog makes these MBA-level concepts approachable in just 8 minutes.
Explore interactive data dashboards, waterfall charts, and hands-on examples that turn real-world financials into visual, easy-to-understand insights for free.
Whether you’re prepping for finance interviews, learning valuation methods, or just curious, this post shows how fun and interactive understanding EBITDA can be.
Read it here: https://t.co/VjLEr8cEjC

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Behind every breakthrough at Three Pillars is a team of curious, driven minds.

Meet one of them — Alda, a second-year student at the University of Chicago, majoring in Psychology and Business Economics.

As a Business Development and Social Media Marketing Intern at Three Pillars, Alda manages our social media platforms, plans posting schedules, edits blog content, and films the very intentional funny reels. Her goal is simple: help more people discover Pillars — and be ready to use it the moment it officially launches.

What Alda enjoys most about the internship is turning creativity into impact. From making memes to filming reels, she gets to use her deep knowledge of current social media Gen Z trends (earned through extensive scrolling) and apply it in a real-world setting to build brand presence and engagement.

Outside of work, Alda loves to cook, listen to music, and dance. She’s been training in a variety of dance styles for over eight years and is actively involved in a dance RSO on campus.

Alda, along with the rest of the Three Pillars team, is helping shape how the platform connects with its audience — making financial modeling feel more accessible, engaging, and human.

Launch is just around the corner. Stay tuned.

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Pillars AI finishes your model in just minutes.
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Deals don’t wait. Why should you?

Three Pillars turns messy financials into ready-to-analyze models in minutes — not hours.

Speed up your workflow. Focus on the decisions that actually matter💯

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A big thank you to the Booth–Kellogg ETA Conference for a day of sharp questions, honest feedback, and conversations that reminded us why we’re building Three Pillars.

Talking with searchers and investors gave us a much clearer view of the deal analysis process and where our software can actually help. It was eye-opening to hear how much time goes into juggling sourcing, calls, modeling, and operator-level decisions while sifting through 200+ page CIMs, PPMs, and pitch decks.

Hearing that our tool could actually give some of that time back meant a lot. We’re grateful to everyone who stopped by, tested the product, and shared honest feedback. Feeling excited to take what we learned today and keep building.

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If you had 6 extra hours this week, what would you do: sleep, sell, or scale?

Most searchers don’t get to choose. Their time disappears into parsing CIMs, reorganizing seller financials, and manually rebuilding models before they can evaluate fit.

Three Pillars gives that time back.

Upload your materials and get clean, standardized, analysis-ready financials in minutes.

Sleep, sell, or scale.
Your call. We simply return the time to make it possible.

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Three Pillars takes your company’s COGS and breaks it into the components that actually matter: materials, labor, fulfillment, packaging, and anything else that defines the economics of that business.

Here’s a sneak peak at our sample hotel case study, which breaks down COGS into departmental and owner allocation expenses to show how each category affects the bottom line.
Our models map every COGS component back to the underlying assumptions, so you can trace where money goes, what scales cleanly, and what holds the business back.

Launching soon. Join our waitlist to be the first to hear:
https://t.co/WGOENIC7Ts

In the meantime, visit our blog for practical insights on modeling structure, valuation strategy, and real-world deal analysis:
https://t.co/dmkIfCvHgY

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Another brilliant mind at Three Pillars is our intern Bonnie, a third-year computer science student at UChicago from South Korea.

As a Software Engineering Intern at Pillars, Bonnie has been enhancing Pillars’ admin pages to make them more user-friendly and implementing our payment system using the Stripe API. Bonnie’s favorite part of the internship is the flexibility she has in making design and engineering decisions with the user in mind, and she finds it especially rewarding to take ownership of projects while learning how a startup operates behind the scenes.

Bonnie, along with the rest of the Three Pillars team, is building a cutting-edge interface that transforms messy, unstructured data into polished financial models and valuations in minutes.

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Entrepreneurs– finding a great company feels exciting, like you’ve found something with real potential.

Then due diligence hits.

Hundreds of pages, inconsistent numbers, outdated models, and the realization that half your time is spent just interpreting it all.

It’s the least glamorous part of entrepreneurship, but also the most important.

Three Pillars acts as your right-hand man, turning CIMs and pitch decks into clean, connected financials in minutes, so you can spend less time wrestling with spreadsheets and more time deciding if the deal is actually worth doing.

Launching soon. Join our waitlist to be the first to hear:
https://t.co/WGOENICFJ0

In the meantime, visit our blog for practical insights on modeling structure, valuation strategy, and real-world deal analysis:
https://t.co/dmkIfCwf6w
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@buildItN0w Our software automates financial modeling and deal analysis in just minutes for everyone from entrepreneurs to analysts to students!

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Ever tried valuing a business and felt like you were guessing?

When you generate a full income statement in Pillars, you also get a full valuation view complete with revenue multiples, EBITDA multiples, and the real adjustments behind them.

No clutter or guesswork. Just a clean look at what really drives value.

Launching soon. Join our waitlist to be the first to hear:
https://t.co/WGOENICFJ0

In the meantime, visit our blog for practical insights on modeling structure, valuation strategy, and real-world deal analysis:
https://t.co/dmkIfCwf6w

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From our in-person day with the interns. They're doing great work!

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We'll help you find your next acquisition.

Here’s how Three Pillars breaks down a hotel’s revenue streams into one clean, interactive view for analysis. We start with revenue and tailors its breakdown to each project, whether separating by geography, by stream, or by underlying driver, to uncover what drives growth.

That’s what Pillars does best: helping entrepreneurs and investors spot strong businesses faster with confidence.

Upload CIMs, PPMs, or pitch decks to explore analyses directly in our web interface, or download the full, editable Excel model with one click. Every value and assumption is editable right in the platform, designed to feel as intuitive as a spreadsheet, without the clutter.

We’re making incredible progress, and this is only the beginning.

Launching soon. Join our waitlist to be the first to hear:
https://t.co/WGOENIC7Ts

In the meantime, visit our blog for practical insights on modeling structure, valuation strategy, and real-world deal analysis:
https://t.co/dmkIfCvHgY

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You don’t become an analyst to fix broken formulas. But somehow, that’s most of the job.

You open a new model and spend hours fixing links, cleaning tabs, and formatting columns before you even get to the real work.

On average, analysts spend 60% of their time cleaning data.
That’s about $250K in lost productivity per team every year.

The work is valuable, but the hours dedicated to it are avoidable.

At Three Pillars, we’re helping teams get that time back. By automating the cleanup, we let analysts focus on what actually moves deals forward: thinking, building, and analyzing.

Because no one should spend most of their week wrestling with Excel.

Launching soon. Join our waitlist to be the first to hear:
https://t.co/WGOENIC7Ts

In the meantime, visit our blog for practical insights on modeling structure, valuation strategy, and real-world deal analysis:
https://t.co/dmkIfCvHgY

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We could help… but we’ll let Excel scare you one last time.

Launching soon. Join the waitlist: https://t.co/BGtUjT0zZv

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We sat down with our founder, Mike, for a quick Q&A to give you a deeper look into the people behind Three Pillars.

From what he’s building next to how he unwinds, here’s a look at the person behind the spreadsheets.

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