A major real estate company was in the final stages of raising debt. Their CFO, had full confidence in the internal team. His team had built the financial model themselves, weeks of work, multiple iterations, late nights refining every sheet. By the time they reached lender discussions, they knew the model inside out...

Building a first financial model from scratch can take weeks, often at the cost of sleep and sanity. By the time the second model comes around, even for a different business, it's common to notice large parts of the logic repeating. And the same happens in the third. That's when the thought arises: Should there be a universal template that contains all the logics used repeatedly? Would that save time in the long run?