Finally, a spend cube and savings thesis that builds itself.
Upload your messy AP data. Pulse cleanses, normalizes, classifies, and sizes the opportunity — your cube and savings thesis, in one pass. No integration. No onboarding. No analytics team to wait on.
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We built what we wished existed: a pipeline that turns raw AP data into a usable spend cube while you watch.
Seven stages, end-to-end. Two of them are yours — an upfront audit gate where you confirm the ballpark before we commit compute, and a short review queue where you confirm the AI's calls on the items it wasn't sure about. You stay in control, twice.
Three jobs to be done. One engine that does them.
Pulse is built for three audiences with different timelines, different decisions, and different ways of measuring success. Pick the one that sounds like you — each has a deeper view below.
The spend answers a CFO keeps asking for.
Procurement and finance teams shouldn't wait weeks for someone else to build the cube. Pulse turns AP data into spend visibility and a savings thesis — self-serve, in time for the next planning cycle.
Learn more →A defensible savings thesis. Before you sign.
Diligence teams need savings sized, defensible, and IC-ready — on a deal timeline, not a consulting timeline. Pulse builds the cube and the thesis before close, for a flat price you can expense.
Learn more →The leverage hiding in five disconnected portcos.
Operating teams manage value creation across a portfolio you can't see as one thing. Pulse builds a cube per company and rolls them into one fund-level view — surfacing leverage no single portco can unlock on its own.
Learn more →Spend answers, on your timeline. Not someone else's.
Procurement and finance teams know exactly which questions the CFO asks every quarter — and they shouldn't need to wait for a consulting engagement to answer them. Upload AP data; Pulse builds the cube and the savings thesis self-serve.
Drop your AP export — Pulse builds the cube the moment your file lands. No waiting for BI, no scoping with an analytics vendor. The 'where does our money go?' question gets a real answer this afternoon, not next quarter.
Pulse sizes the savings opportunity at the addressable portion of your spend — not theoretical savings against everything. The number you bring to budget conversations is one you can defend line by line.
Annual planning, mid-year reviews, budget defense, board prep — Pulse lands a credible cube and savings thesis on a planning timeline, not a procurement-software-implementation timeline. Sign up, upload, in by Friday.
Months of consulting, or one lunch break.
Upload the target's AP data. Get a validated spend cube and a savings thesis before you close — the same kind of cube and category brief we built dozens of times across $3T of spend, now delivered self-serve.
Drop the target's AP export — Pulse cleanses, normalizes, classifies, and builds the opportunity assessment the moment it lands. You close the diligence loop without waiting for an external team to build the cube for you.
No procurement, no SOW, no haggling. Time-boxed to a single diligence pass. Converts to a portfolio subscription post-close if you want to bring the cube into value creation.
Pulse delivers visibility and a savings thesis to inform diligence. The Validation step lets you calibrate addressability honestly — we don't model what we wouldn't underwrite ourselves.
Every portco's spend. One picture of the fund.
Upload AP data for every portco in the portfolio. Pulse builds a spend picture per company and a roll-up across the fund — supplier overlaps, category overlaps, side-by-side benchmarks, and fund-level leverage deals you can't see one portco at a time.
Suppliers that appear in 4+ portcos, categories where you spend $25M+ combined — Pulse flags fund-level leverage deal candidates with addressability-adjusted savings ranges. Volume your portcos can't unlock on their own.
Compare spend, category mix, supplier concentration, and opportunity across every portco in the portfolio. Spot the outlier portco, find the best-practice operator, target the right add-ons.
Add a portco when you acquire one. Replace its data when you re-export. The cube grows with the portfolio across 4-7 year holds — you're never re-implementing.
A pre-flight audit, a complete spend picture, and an opportunity teaser that tells you the rest is worth the upgrade.
Pre-flight audit
Before we cleanse or classify, Pulse runs a ballpark audit on your file. Total spend, period, supplier count, currency detection — the numbers-first view that tells you the data is real before you spend a minute on anything else.
- Ballpark totals (spend, period, suppliers)
- Column inference + confidence
- Soft warnings inline
- Hard fails route to our team
Spend picture
Once your file passes audit, the full spend cube — totals, categories, suppliers, parents, monthly trend, coverage — is yours. Drill any axis. The visibility module stays free; only the savings work is gated.
- Live cube post-processing
- Supplier normalization + parenting
- Category coverage at L1 / L2 / L3
- Review queue inside the app (decisions optional)
Opportunity teaser
Top-line savings range, top three categories, and the addressability story behind the number. Honest framing about what's contestable in a value-creation program — not theoretical savings against raw spend.
- Total savings range (low–high)
- Top 3 categories by opportunity
- Addressability-adjusted, not theoretical
- Upgrade only when you need depth