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Overview Pattern is a global ecommerce acceleration platform that helps consumer brands sell products on global ecommerce marketplaces. Our proprietary technology and on-demand experts operate across more than 70 marketplaces to increase product sales to consumers in more than 100 countries. Utilizing more than 66 trillion data points and sophisticated machine learning and artificial intelligence (“AI”), we strive to optimize and automate key levers of ecommerce growth, including advertising, content creation and management, pricing, forecasting and customer service. The result is a powerful platform that allows brands to navigate the complexity of operating on global ecommerce marketplaces at scale. Our Business Model Pattern’s platform sits as a thin layer between brands, marketplaces and consumers. We believe that one of the best ways to monetize our technology and expertise is by purchasing products from our brand partners and selling those products to consumers on global marketplaces. We generate the substantial majority of our revenue from consumer product sales on global ecommerce marketplaces. This model results in a more seamless, low-friction relationship and allows Pattern maximum control over the customer experience, including content, pricing, logistics and customer service. In our experience, this business model aligns Pattern’s and our brand partners’ incentives toward maximizing growth. Importantly, transacting directly with consumers also allows us to accumulate comprehensive marketplace data, perform real-time testing and build more powerful predictive models. Net Income $14.7 $10.6 $10.8 $(1.0) $(5.2) $(3.0) $41.3 $67.9 $16.2 Ecommerce is Simple for Consumers but Complex for Brands Ecommerce has made purchasing more convenient for consumers, but it has increased operational complexity for brands. Selling on online marketplaces requires brands to manage dynamic pricing, algorithm-driven product discovery, ongoing advertising and complex fulfillment and logistics requirements across multiple channels. Many brands lack the scale, technology and expertise to manage these activities efficiently and profitably on their own. Selling products across global ecommerce marketplaces also requires brands to manage a wide range of interrelated activities, including driving traffic, optimizing product content, maintaining consistent brand presentation, managing inventory levels, complying with marketplace policies, coordinating fulfillment and logistics and supporting post-purchase customer engagement across regions. These activities must be executed concurrently and adapted continuously to changing marketplace rules, pricing dynamics and consumer expectations. 3 Table of Contents With these complexities and opaque marketplace requirements, brands face several key challenges, including: • Growing profitably: Increasing customer acquisition costs, marketplace fees, fulfillment and logistics expenses, inventory risk and the cost of developing and maintaining internal ecommerce technology place pressure on margins and profitability. • Lack of integrated technology: Many brands rely on fragmented tools for advertising, inventory and analytics, leading to operational inefficiencies, higher costs and limited real-time visibility across marketplaces. • Limited access to high-quality data: Brands often face challenges accessing, consolidating and analyzing comprehensive ecommerce data across marketplaces, advertising platforms and social channels, limiting their ability to optimize performance and allocate spend effectively. • Lack of specialized expertise: Successfully operating across multiple marketplaces and regions requires specialized knowledge of platform rules, regulations and evolving channel dynamics, which can be difficult and costly for brands to build and maintain internally. • Maintaining brand value and consistency: Brands face challenges maintaining consistent positioning, pricing discipline, product authenticity, delivery standards and customer experience across marketplaces, particularly as