The category
John Moody solved bond trust
in 1909 with a single,
standardised document.
Private companies are still waiting.
QuantPillar is the Independent Verification Layer that closes that gap. Not a rating agency. The infrastructure that makes a standard possible.
The mission
Make private-company financial reality legible, verifiable, and reusable.
The bottleneck in private markets has shifted. It is no longer calculation; it is credibility. Boards ask one question. Capital asks another. The same financials fail both conversations, not because the business isn't real, but because there is no independent, standard way to prove the story matches the file.
QuantPillar exists to end that. Not by generating another estimate, but by turning a private company's financials, IP, and data assets into live, expert-signed proof that every counterparty can rely on, without rebuilding diligence from scratch every time the calendar turns.
Verify once. Use everywhere.
“The friction is informational before it is financial. We were spending the board meeting debating whether the forecast was believable, not whether the strategy was right. Your financial data should be a predictive asset, not a reactive liability.”
Sam Ehsaei, Founder & CEO
Sam G. Ehsaei
Founder & CEO, QuantPillar
I've been in both rooms. The CFO's office, where a forecast is being assembled the night before a board meeting. And the capital provider's side of the table, where a PDF lands and the due diligence clock starts over from zero.
17 years across those two rooms; as a founder twice, as a valuation expert and fractional CFO across UK and North America, as a capital advisor on transactions that crossed $2.3 billion in aggregate, taught me the same lesson every time: the problem was never the quality of the underlying business. The problem was that private companies had no credible, repeatable way to represent financial reality to outsiders.
“Every important decision still began with ‘Export to CSV.’ The real pain wasn't speed. It was legitimacy. In private markets, an unverifiable claim doesn't get disagreed with. It gets shelved.”
I built QuantPillar because the infrastructure to solve this didn't exist, and I'd spent long enough watching deals stall, rounds close at haircut valuations, and board conversations derail over data provenance to know that building it was the right use of the next decade.
This is not another dashboard. It is the verification layer I always needed but never had.
The problem
The friction is informational
before it is financial.
Unverifiable claims don't get disagreed with in private markets. They get shelved. Deals stall. Boards hedge. Companies pay for the doubt in time, terms, and dilution they should never have taken.
The question a capital provider needs answered is not only “What happens to cash if you lose your largest client?” It's: “Can a third party stand behind your answer without rebuilding your entire data room on their clock?”
For 116 years, the answer for private companies has been no.
- Boards spend meetings debating whether numbers are correct, not whether the strategy is right.
- Lenders receive PDFs. They send questions. Another PDF arrives. Weeks pass. The deal stalls on verification, not creditworthiness.
- Valuations are rebuilt from scratch at every transaction, the same underlying business re-litigated at every turn.
- Private credit is scaling toward $4.5 trillion by 2030. Capital cannot flow efficiently on unverifiable claims at that volume.
- IP and data assets, often a private company's largest value driver, remain entirely invisible to lenders and investors with no standard methodology to surface them.
The platform
A trust layer, not a prettier spreadsheet.
QuantPillar gives private companies what public markets have long taken for granted: a credible, repeatable way to represent financial reality to any counterparty, without making every conversation a custom diligence project.
TRUST LINK™ · THE STANDARD
Verified Financial Identity
A live, independently verified financial profile, your Capital Passport™, with methodology, line of sight, and expert-signed accountability. The credential private capital has been waiting for.
ExploreQUANTVAL™ · VALUATION
Expert-Signed Valuations
409A, ASC 820, IP and intangible asset valuation, done the way capital markets actually underwrite. Multi-method. Audit-vault backed. Delivered in days, not weeks.
ExploreQUANTCORE™ · INTELLIGENCE
Live Financial Governance
Continuous monitoring, scenario modelling, and board-ready reporting, built on verified data. Every assumption documented, every forecast defensible.
ExploreQUANTTERMINAL™ · DISCOVERY
Private Market Benchmark
The NICI ranking places verified companies in the private market's first standardised benchmark, visible to institutional capital that is already searching for companies like yours.
ExploreCFO ADVISORY · FRACTIONAL PRACTICE
For select scale-ups, Sam leads directly as fractional CFO, applying the same standards and methodology that power the platform to live financial governance, board preparation, and capital strategy. The platform and the practice are the same discipline, at different scales.
Explore CFO OfficeThe standard we are building
Every market gets its standard.
Private markets are next.
Standards do not start as regulation. They start because clarity gets capital to the right use, and the market adopts whatever makes that happen fastest.
1909
John Moody publishes the first bond manual.
A single, standardised document replaced weeks of bespoke bond analysis. The market adopted it immediately, not because it was mandated, but because it made allocation decisions possible at scale.
1992 – 2000s
SOC 2 becomes the enterprise trust standard.
Started with a clear framework and a handful of early adopters. Today, 89% of enterprise buyers require it from every vendor. The standard became self-reinforcing once adoption reached critical mass.
1998
LEED standardises sustainable building trust.
Within a decade of launch, LEED certification became the language of sustainable construction across $100B+ in annual development. The standard didn't replace expertise; it made expertise legible to the market.
2026 →
Trust Link™, the verified financial identity standard for private companies.
$4.5 trillion in private credit by 2030 requires a methodology private capital can rely on. QuantPillar is building it. One verified Capital Passport™ at a time.
QuantPillar is not a rating agency and does not issue credit ratings. Trust Link™ is an independent verification and methodology standard, the infrastructure layer that makes verified financial identity possible for private companies.
Ready to be part of the standard?
The right next step depends on your room.
Whether you're the CFO building toward a raise, the lender standardising diligence, or the founder who just needs to be believed faster; the entry point is different. The infrastructure is the same.
For founders & CFOs
Get your Capital Passport™
Verified financial identity in 11 days. Board-confident. Capital-ready.
StartFor lenders & capital providers
See how Trust Link™ works
Cut underwriting time and default risk with lender-grade verified borrower data.
Learn morePress, partners & enterprise
Talk to the team
Integration partnerships, media enquiries, and enterprise verification programmes.
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