This document discusses the need for a new investment accounting solution called BasisPoint to address shortcomings of legacy systems. It summarizes that (1) democratization of information, technology, and finance has created a real-time global trading environment that outdated solutions cannot manage. (2) Many financial crises over the past decades can be attributed to an inability to properly account for trades at the tax lot level. (3) Pendo sees an opportunity to disrupt the market and gain operating leverage in the $350 trillion financial services industry by offering a solution for transparency, regulatory compliance, and risk management.