Talha S.

Former BDO external auditor who builds investor pitch decks, financial models, and business plans to three review standards: VC diligence, SBA underwriting, and USCIS adjudication. 200+ engagements. 50+ raises supported. 120+ 5-star reviews. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY THIS MATTERS A clean story dies the second a partner opens your model and finds a hardcoded number, a TAM that does not add up, or unit economics that collapse in the second tab. SBA underwriters are harder. They do not read your business plan to be impressed. They read it looking for a reason to decline. I spent two years on the other side of that desk. As an external auditor at BDO, one of the world's largest accounting and advisory networks operating in 160+ countries, I audited banks, microfinance institutions, hydroelectric projects, and development finance portfolios under ISA and IFRS. My job was to find the number that did not hold. That is the lens I apply to every document I build now. When your model reaches an investor's inbox or a lender's desk, it holds up to the questions a 22-year-old associate is paid to ask. No inflated TAM. No fantasy hockey stick. No revenue logic that breaks on slide 11. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT I BUILD INVESTOR PITCH DECKS 10 to 20 slides, written and designed from zero, structured around what VCs and angels actually decide on: problem fit, market sizing that survives scrutiny, unit economics, traction, and the ask. FINANCIAL MODELS 3 to 5 year projections. Revenue build, cost structure, cap table, DCF valuation, scenario toggles, break-even analysis. Excel-native, fully linked, zero hardcoded constants. Every cell is defensible in the room. BUSINESS PLANS 25 to 40 page investor-grade plans for startup raises, SBA 7(a), 504 and EIDL applications, and E-2 and EB-5 immigration filings. Written to the standard the reviewer is actually applying, not the standard Google says they apply. INVESTOR ONE-PAGERS AND TEASERS The document that gets the meeting before the deck gets opened. BUSINESS VALUATIONS DCF, comparable transactions, revenue and EBITDA multiples for fundraising, M&A, or exit preparation. CIMS AND TEASER MEMOS Sell-side materials for owners and advisors running an acquisition or exit process. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TRACK RECORD Across 200+ engagements I have built the underlying plan, model, and deck behind raises and approvals including a $3.5M commercial facility for a 10,000 sq ft pet resort, a $1.2M pre-seed round for a pre-revenue SaaS company, and multiple SBA 7(a) approvals in the $250K to $500K range. Clients across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Singapore, and the GCC. 120+ 5-star reviews at a 4.9 average across communication, quality, and value. Sectors: SaaS, fintech, real estate, energy, healthcare, franchise, hospitality, logistics, e-commerce, and professional services. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHO I AM A FIT FOR Founders raising $100K to $5M, pre-seed through Series A US small business owners applying for SBA 7(a), 504, EIDL, or commercial term debt Buyers financing an acquisition and assembling the lender package Operators preparing for a sale, exit, or strategic transaction E-2 and EB-5 applicants who need a plan that will not get kicked back Who I am not a fit for: anyone looking for a $200 template, a deck designer with no finance training, or a partner who will quietly inflate numbers to make the pitch sound bigger. I will not, and you do not actually want me to. That is the document that gets you a no in the second meeting. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW I WORK You send me what you have, or nothing. My intake system pulls the story out. Within 48 hours you get a draft structure and every assumption I intend to use, in writing. You sign off before I build. One short call to refine. I build. You review. Final delivery: fully editable PowerPoint, Excel, and Word files, plus a walkthrough so you can defend every number live. No agency handoffs. No subcontractors. You hire me, you get me. I cap active projects so every client gets direct attention, and I respond within the hour during US business hours. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CREDENTIALS CA Finalist, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan Former Audit Associate at BDO Ebrahim & Co, promoted to Semi-Senior on a microfinance bank engagement Working experience across IFRS, ISA, and US GAAP QuickBooks certified US GAAP bookkeeping and financial reporting for US-based clients If you are raising capital, applying for a loan, or preparing to exit, send me what you have or what you do not. I will tell you straight whether I can get you there and what it will take.