Walk in already knowing your score.
Ottimo marks your LBO workbook against a validated answer model. It names every miss, ranked by what it would cost in a real review.
- Sources and uses tied+8
- Balance sheet balances, every year+8
- Fee treatment inside tolerance+3
- Cash sweep not wired−14
- Mid-year convention ignored−9
Every figure below E42 was wrong only because of this one.
Practice with no feedback loop.
You already own a template and you have watched the tutorials. What you have never had is anyone telling you, with a number, where you stand.
So you self-mark at 1am against a finished answer file, and self-marking is exactly the thing you are bad at.
Every one of them hands you the answer. Not one of them marks your work.
4 steps, under a clock.
No account before your first score. The clock is the only thing Ottimo insists on, because practice without it is what you already do for free.
Download the starter file
A real .xlsx with a labeled, locked output block, so nobody has to guess where an IRR goes.
Build it under the clock
The prompt on screen, the clock counting down in mono, and Excel where you will actually work.
Upload the submission
Ottimo parses the workbook and reads the formulas behind every required output, not just the numbers.
Read the Scorecard
A score, a band, every hit and miss ranked by what it costs, and the cell where you first diverged.
The rubric is published before you pay.
Marking an LBO is deterministic arithmetic plus a fixed checklist. Value checks run inside stated tolerance bands; structural checks read the formula, not the number.
Every answer model opens in Excel and can be audited line by line. Nothing here rests on a claim of authority.
- Entry TEV±0.5%
- Sources and uses total±0.1%
- Exit equity value±0.5%
- Money multiple±0.05x
- Sponsor IRR±0.3%
- Peak leverage±0.1x
- Cash sweep wired to the revolver
- Transaction fees capitalized, not expensed
- Mid-year convention applied
- Balance sheet balances in every year
- Nothing hardcoded that should be driven
- Returns traceable to sources and uses
Red is the examiner's pen.
A reviewing associate is not judging your insight. They are checking whether the instructions were followed and whether the returns are correct and auditable.
Ottimo marks the same way, and it is blunt about it: the miss is named, then the fix is named. You are told what a reviewer would do with it.
The Pass. $199, once.
Marking is code against a stored answer model, so unlimited costs Ottimo cents. That is why unlimited can be promised in writing.
The case library is being built now, so the Pass is open as a founding purchase. You get every case as it ships, permanently, at one price.
Full refund on request, any time before your first Scorecard. Email hello@ottimo.nanocorp.app and it is returned.
- 12cases in the library, 1 price
- Unlimitedtimed attempts, every case
- Unlimitedmarking, every submission
- 12answer models, open in Excel
- 0subscriptions, tiers or plans