Consulting + Intelligence

Turn Complexity Into Opportunity.

Every organization has problems it knows about—and problems it hasn’t discovered yet. Two Pillars helps uncover both.

We combine consulting expertise with our proprietary APIS intelligence platform to analyze complex information, identify what’s driving performance, uncover opportunities and risks, and develop practical solutions that move organizations forward.

Two Pillars & Co.

We Find What’s Holding Your Organization Back—and Help You Fix It.

Two Pillars & Co. is a consulting and technology firm that helps organizations uncover financial, operational, strategic, and growth opportunities hidden within their data and information.

Powered by our proprietary APIS intelligence platform, we can process complex information at remarkable speed, identify patterns and opportunities, investigate problems, develop solutions, and turn findings into actionable strategies and work products.

Our goal is simple:

  • Help organizations make more money.
  • Operate more efficiently.
  • Reduce unnecessary costs.
  • Identify opportunities.
  • Solve complex problems.
  • Make better decisions.
  • And build a stronger organization.

The Problem

Your Organization Has More Information Than Ever.

But information alone doesn’t create better performance.

Organizations often have critical information scattered across:

  • Financial systems
  • Spreadsheets
  • Reports
  • Documents
  • Operational systems
  • Contracts
  • Customer information
  • Employee data
  • Market data
  • Policies and regulations
  • Historical records
  • Internal knowledge

The challenge isn’t necessarily getting more information.

It’s understanding what it means—and knowing what to do about it.

That’s where Two Pillars comes in.

What We Do

We Turn Information Into Answers.

Two Pillars helps organizations answer questions such as:

  • Where are we making money?
  • Where are we losing money?
  • Why are costs increasing?
  • Where is revenue being left on the table?
  • Which parts of the organization are most profitable?
  • Where can margins improve?
  • Where are inefficiencies?
  • What resources are underutilized?
  • Where are bottlenecks?
  • How can productivity improve?
  • Where is unnecessary spending occurring?
  • Where should we invest?
  • What should we stop doing?
  • What should we expand?
  • What opportunities are we missing?
  • What happens if we do nothing?
  • What should leadership prioritize?
  • Where can we generate additional revenue?
  • Which customers, markets, products or services represent opportunity?
  • Where are we losing customers?
  • What new opportunities make economic sense?
  • What could materially hurt performance?
  • Where are vulnerabilities developing?
  • Which trends require attention now?
  • What information is missing before making a major decision?

We don’t simply tell you what happened. We work to understand why it happened, what it means, and what can be done about it.

The Two Pillars Approach

Find the Problem. Build the Solution.

Pillar One

Intelligence

We investigate the organization.

We analyze information, identify patterns, uncover problems, evaluate performance, and find opportunities.

Pillar Two

Solutions

We help determine what should happen next.

That could mean:

  • Changing an operation
  • Reducing costs
  • Increasing revenue
  • Restructuring a service
  • Entering a new market
  • Improving utilization
  • Changing a workflow
  • Developing a new strategy
  • Implementing technology
  • Creating a new company or solution

Powered by APIS

Behind Our Work Is APIS.

Our proprietary intelligence and workflow technology.

APIS allows our team to process enormous amounts of complex information quickly, connect information across sources, identify relationships and patterns, apply industry-specific intelligence, investigate problems, evaluate opportunities, and turn findings into detailed work products.

Speed

Complex analysis that can traditionally take days or weeks can be accelerated dramatically.

Depth

APIS can examine large volumes of information and investigate relationships that may be difficult to identify manually.

Precision

Findings can be connected back to underlying evidence, calculations, and source information.

Consistency

Our methodologies, frameworks and industry-specific intelligence can be applied systematically across engagements.

Scalability

The same underlying intelligence infrastructure can support organizations across multiple industries.

APIS doesn’t replace expertise. It makes expertise faster, deeper, and more scalable.

What We Help Organizations Achieve

Better Performance Starts With Better Intelligence.

Two Pillars can help organizations pursue:

More Revenue

Identify revenue opportunities, market opportunities, customer opportunities and areas of leakage.

Higher Margins

Understand what’s driving profitability and where margins can realistically improve.

Lower Costs

Identify unnecessary spending, inefficiencies, waste and opportunities for optimization.

Greater Operational Efficiency

Improve workflows, utilization, productivity and resource allocation.

Better Asset Utilization

Identify underused people, facilities, equipment, capacity and other resources.

Stronger Decision-Making

Give leadership a clearer picture of what is happening and what options exist.

Reduced Risk

Identify emerging problems, vulnerabilities and areas requiring attention.

Sustainable Growth

Determine where investment and expansion can actually create value.

Organizational Turnaround

When performance deteriorates, determine what’s driving the decline and what can realistically change the trajectory.

Turnaround

When Performance Isn’t Where It Needs to Be, We Help Find Out Why.

Organizations don’t always need another generic strategy report.

Sometimes they need to know:

  • What’s wrong?
  • How bad is it?
  • What’s causing it?
  • What can actually be changed?
  • How much could changing it matter?
  • What should we do first?

Two Pillars can investigate the organization across:

RevenueCostsOperationsPeopleCustomersAssetsMarketsStrategy

…and develop a prioritized picture of:

ProblemsOpportunitiesRisksSolutionsNext Steps

How We Work

From Question to Solution.

01

Understand

We learn the organization’s objectives, challenges and questions.

02

Gather

We bring together the relevant data, documents, reports and information.

03

Analyze

APIS processes the information and applies the appropriate industry intelligence, frameworks and methodologies.

04

Investigate

We identify trends, problems, opportunities, risks and potential causes.

05

Evaluate

We examine potential solutions, scenarios and tradeoffs.

06

Recommend

We translate the findings into clear priorities and actionable recommendations.

07

Execute

We can help turn recommendations into reports, presentations, models, dashboards, workflows, implementation plans and other work products.

08

Monitor

As new information becomes available, the intelligence can continue evolving.

We Don’t Want to Just Tell You What’s Wrong.

We Want to Help You Determine What To Do About It.

A problem without a solution isn’t intelligence.

A report without action isn’t transformation.

Our objective is to move from

InformationUnderstandingDecisionAction

What’s Holding Your Organization Back?

Whether you’re trying to increase revenue, improve margins, reduce costs, increase operational efficiency, identify new opportunities, manage risk or turn around declining performance, Two Pillars can help you investigate the problem and determine what comes next.

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