The value case is rebuilt by hand, once a quarter.
Between those rebuilds nobody knows where the number stands. Here an LBO model, synergy tracking per workstream, and the decisions picked up from your transformation meetings are combined into a Deal Value Bridge. FP&A figures are entered monthly, by hand, for now.
The model, the synergies and Tuesday's decisions are one Deal Value Bridge, not three spreadsheets. We have not found another platform that connects all three.
The method began as a London Business School dissertation, awarded a distinction and supervised by Professor Eli Talmor, co-author of the field's standard textbook, International Private Equity. It decomposed operational and financial value creation on the Debenhams buyout. Atlantic is that method, now real-time software.
The whole value-creation story, operational and financial
Most tools track the financial model or the synergy tracker. Atlantic ties them into one bridge and keeps it live.
Operational and financial value, together
Total deal value is the operational attainment of synergies plus the financial levers: growth, margin, multiple, and leverage, on one bridge. Not the model or the tracker in isolation, the total.
Anticipated value recomputes as decisions and progress surface in your transformation meetings. Meeting Intelligence captures them live and attributes them to the operational value legs, so the bridge moves with the deal, not with a quarterly financial pack.
Revenue synergies flow to the growth leg, cost synergies to the margin leg. Your synergy plan is the operating value in the bridge, not a separate bar bolted on.
Anticipated, planned, realized
Every leg carries its anticipated height, the plan line, and the realized fill, with percent attained. The underwrite and the actual sit on one picture.
Validated across 31 public case studies
The LBO engine behind the bridge is tied out against 31 public case studies, and the downloadable Excel model reproduces it to the cent on the same inputs.
Real-time across the portfolio
PE firms roll deal value creation up across portfolio companies on one live view, so the fund-level picture is current, not stitched together from quarterly packs. Run it as its own project type or add the Deal Value module to an Integration or Divestiture.
Atlantic is for the IMO and the Value Creation team who run the transformation, not the fund's reporting stack. Execution trackers tell you whether initiatives are on schedule. Atlantic does that too, and models what the deal is actually worth, operational and financial, on one bridge.
Available from Pro Plus
Value-creation modeling is included from Pro Plus upward, alongside the full deal workspace.
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Pro Plus
$43,750/yr
Up to 12 users · 5 active projects
Best for: PE operating partners and active value-creation teams
See full pricing for add-ons, account hold, and the tier-by-tier feature comparison.
Questions, answered
What makes this different from a value-creation spreadsheet?
Two things. It ties operational value, the attainment of synergies, to the financial model on one bridge, and it updates in real time as information reaches the transformation program. Most teams rebuild a partial view by hand each quarter.
Where does the model come from?
It began as a London Business School dissertation, awarded a distinction and supervised by Professor Eli Talmor, co-author of the standard PE textbook International Private Equity. It decomposed operational and financial value creation on the Debenhams buyout.
How is the model validated?
The LBO engine behind the bridge is tied out against 31 public case studies, and the Excel export reproduces it on the same inputs, so the number you present is the number the engine computed.
Does the platform decide my value-creation plan?
No. You set the targets in the underwrite. Atlantic models them and tracks attainment against them. There are no go/no-go scores and no automated recommendations, only your numbers against your plan.
How do I run it, and which tiers include it?
Run Value Creation as its own project type, or add the Deal Value module to an Integration or Divestiture project. Value-creation modeling is available from Pro Plus upward.
Your workspace, your team, your governance. Work plans, RAID and the steering pack live where the people doing the work already are.
Delivering this for a client?
Run it here, then hand it over.
Same methodology, same quality, one consultant. When the engagement ends, transfer the project to the client account: they keep the method, the history and the reporting, not a folder of final documents.