REAL COMPANIES. EXPLICIT ASSUMPTIONS. · First model editions in development
The businesses shaping today. The assumptions behind their value.

Real companies.
Real business drivers.

Go beyond a generic template. Explore the companies everyone’s talking about through the way they earn revenue, invest for growth and generate cash. Our first company-specific DCF models are in development.

DCF MODELSMODEL ANATOMY / 01

From drivers to value.

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01 Company-specific business drivers
02 Transparent sources & assumptions
03 Editable models. Clear scenarios.
The model collection

The companies you follow.
The drivers you can model.

From AI infrastructure to recurring software revenue and membership retail, start with the real economics behind the headline story.

SEMICONDUCTORSNVDA
In development · Company-specific edition

NVIDIA

Explore how segment growth, product mix and reinvestment shape long-term cash generation.

Data center & gaming revenue
Gross margin · R&D · Capital expenditure
ENTERPRISE SOFTWARECRM
In development · Company-specific edition

Salesforce

Connect recurring revenue, customer economics and operating leverage to valuation.

Subscription growth · Revenue mix
Operating margin · Stock-based compensation
MEMBERSHIP RETAILCOST
In development · Company-specific edition

Costco

Separate warehouse economics and membership revenue to understand the retail engine.

Warehouse count · Sales per warehouse
Membership fees · Renewal assumptions

Planned price: US$19.99 per edition. Workbooks are in development. Each release will identify its financial-data cutoff, sources and assumptions before purchase.

Built around the business

Real-world assumptions.
Reasoning you can inspect.

What drives demand? What changes pricing? What does growth cost? Connect these business questions to revenue, margins, reinvestment and free cash flow, with assumptions you can challenge.

Our aim is to make every released model traceable: dated financials, linked sources, explicit operating assumptions and scenarios that reveal what changes the valuation.

01

Understand the operating engine

Break down revenue, unit economics and segment performance. Distinguish disclosed facts from modeling assumptions.

02

Make assumptions explicit

Trace operating drivers through margins, reinvestment and cash flow. Compare base, bull and bear cases.

03

See what changes the answer

Explore discount rates and terminal growth. Understand which assumptions matter most to valuation.

Learn the framework

From first principles
to your first model.

01   What does a DCF actually value?

A discounted cash flow model estimates the present value of future cash flows. An enterprise DCF discounts unlevered free cash flow, adds a terminal value, then adjusts for net debt and other claims to estimate equity value.

02   How do business drivers become cash flow?

Begin with the operating model: units and pricing, customers and spending, or stores and productivity. Forecast operating profit, then account for taxes, non-cash expenses, capital expenditure and working capital.

03   Why do scenarios matter?

A valuation is conditional on assumptions. Use scenarios to connect plausible business outcomes to cash flow, and sensitivities to isolate the effect of discount rates and terminal assumptions.

A practical starting point

The driver-based
model starter.

Download a small, fictional-company CSV with a five-year cash-flow framework. Open it in Excel to explore the assumptions and formulas.

CSV · Fictional data · Educational sample
A starter worksheet, not a completed company valuation.