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EKKL Entertainment

Investor presentation

The medium matters.

Building creator-first infrastructure for stories that strengthen faith and family while serving human flourishing.

July 20, 2026 HLI Tablehouse Green Family
A selection of EKKL movies, podcasts, and devotionals
Prepared for the July 20, 2026 discussion · Confidential
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Every civilization is shaped by its stories.

Source: EKKL manifesto, “The Medium Matters”
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Those who steward the medium shape the imagination.

Each technological shift changed how stories traveled and who reached an audience. It also changed who held the relationship.

BooksIdeas travel
NewspapersAttention gathers
RadioVoice scales
TelevisionCulture synchronizes
FilmStories deepen
InternetDistribution opens
Creator-firstRelationships stay with creators
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What we learned

EKKL podcast creators
We set out to make better stories.We found the shortage: trusted distribution.

In one television pitch, executives kept asking for dysfunction inside an otherwise healthy family. The system assigned more value to scandal than health.

Robertson family experience, Tread Lively, and the July 14 management working session
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Reverse the relationship.

Platform-first

Creators strengthen the platform.

The platform owns the audience.
Distribution stays centralized.
Value collects at the gatekeeper.
Creator-first

The platform strengthens creators.

Creators own the relationship.
Infrastructure serves the work.
Value compounds through the community.
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The trellis.

A healthy vine needs structure for the growth already inside it. Faith and family creators do not lack talent. They lack integrated infrastructure.

EKKL is the lattice. Distribution and services support the work; audience and commerce create demand; capital funds what comes next.

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The operating philosophy

A flywheel of stewardship.

Back the artist. Earn audience trust. Redirect economic value. Put capital into the next work.

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One creator ecosystem.

Each capability helps creators tell better stories and reach people directly. It also builds durable economics.

Stories

Movies and series. Podcasts and devotionals. Video and audio.

Relationship

Community and audience ownership, backed by creator services.

EKKL is the connective infrastructure.Integrated capabilities, not unrelated businesses.
Economics

Travel and shopping. Advertising and creator revenue.

Stewardship

Wallet choices and mission participation, with capital returned to creators.

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Where value goes matters.

The next step is to own more of the path: capital to creators; creators to audiences; audiences to commerce and mission.

Today: value leaks out

Aligned consumer spending
Investment capital
Creator property on YouTube
Google owns data and ads. Access too.

Capital and data leave the system. So does the audience relationship.

With EKKL: value circulates

Aligned consumer spending and investment
Creators and trusted stories
EKKL distribution and audience data
Aligned ads and commerce; creators and mission

Value and trust stay connected. Stewardship does too.

Illustrative strategy path from the July 14 working session; not a representation of any specific HLI investment structure
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Already in motion

A current operating base and a planned combination.

Live EKKL streaming catalog with movies and series
Pinnacle Peak PicturesGlobal faith-based film distribution.
Tread LivelyPlanned acquisition of a profitable faith and family podcast distributor with 150M+ annual downloads.
EKKL StreamingMovies and series. Podcasts, loyalty, travel and commerce in one platform.
Live EKKL platform capture, July 14, 2026 · Investor materials supplied by management
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Creator infrastructure.

Trusted distributionMeaningful work reaches an audience without surrendering the relationship.
Creator servicesProduction and packaging, with promotion and operational support around the artist.
Audience relationshipCommunity and direct connection strengthen trust over time.
Aligned revenueCommerce and compatible advertising reduce dependence on one content payout.
Faith-centered animated storytelling
A family watching meaningful entertainment together
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Commerce infrastructure

Everyday spending can fund the creator ecosystem.

A live Oklahoma City hotel search showed $46.92 in cashback on a $344.85 stay. The member can keep that value or return it to creators. It can also support mission.

Live EKKL travel result showing a hotel rate and cashback
Live EKKL Travel capture, July 14, 2026 · Prices and cashback vary by search and booking
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Build aligned demand.

Consolidated demand gives creators better economics and gives aligned companies a trusted place to reach the audience.

Scale the operation

Expand sales capacity and automate the advertising business already in motion.

50-100 company target

Build the coalition

Christian-owned companies commit annual budgets across the creator ecosystem.

4-6 mission partners

Concentrate impact

Curate a short list of vetted nonprofits so attention and funding are not diluted.

Strategy targets, not current signed counts
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Keep the cashback
The member receives the value directly.
2
Reinvest into creators
Economic value supports more work.
3
Support a ministry
Commerce becomes voluntary mission participation.

Commerce meets mission.

The same concentration model that accelerated Bible translation can focus audience attention and funding on a small group of trusted organizations.

Potential: IllumiNationsPotential: Museum of the BiblePotential: He Gets UsPotential: Life Collective

Potential partners only. Participation would require diligence and alignment, followed by approval from each organization.

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Scale-up

Not a startup. A scale-up.

EKKL combines a live platform with Pinnacle Peak and plans to acquire Tread Lively. The proposed combination adds an established catalog and operators who have already built and exited in this market.

$20M+reported current annual revenue across Pinnacle Peak and Tread Lively before completion of the planned acquisition
150M+podcast downloads per year
200+titles in the launch catalog
30M+Robertson family social reach
Source: EKKL Investment Executive Summary supplied July 14, 2026
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Leaders with success

Built and scaled. Then sold.

1.2MPure Flix subscribers reached in five years
9 figuresPure Flix streaming exit to Sony
$200M+global box office track record
1B+cumulative podcast downloads
Source: EKKL Investor Deck V2 supplied July 14, 2026
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Management forecast

A path from $18M to $309M.

The model assumes creators exchange content for 0% distribution fees, reducing EKKL's acquisition cost by up to 80%. Potential marketing savings are not included in the supplied forecast.

USD millionsFY26FY27FY28FY29FY30
Revenue$18$69$138$219$309
EBITDA$(20)$4$45$100$164
Free cash flow$(14)$14$60$116$186
FY26
Revenue$18MEBITDA$(20)MFCF$(14)M
FY27
Revenue$69MEBITDA$4MFCF$14M
FY28
Revenue$138MEBITDA$45MFCF$60M
FY29
Revenue$219MEBITDA$100MFCF$116M
FY30
Revenue$309MEBITDA$164MFCF$186M

Management projections are forward-looking, depend on assumptions and are not guarantees. Prospective investors must conduct independent diligence. The source summary reports $20M+ current annual revenue across Pinnacle Peak and Tread Lively; Tread Lively remains a planned acquisition, and the relationship between that figure and the FY26 consolidated forecast requires reconciliation. Definitive legal, accounting and financial documents control.

Source: EKKL Investment Executive Summary supplied July 14, 2026
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Management team

The team has done the work.

Michael ScottCEO. Built Pure Flix to 1.2M subscribers and led the nine-figure Sony exit.
Zach DasherPodcast President. Built Tread Lively and its faith and family podcast network.
Debbie StackisCOO. Former Pure Flix COO and operating leader through scale.
Loren SchwartzCMO. 25+ years at Sony and Warner Bros; former Pure Flix CMO.
Willie & Korie Robertson · Brand ambassadors and foundersCris Fastrup · CFO
Source: EKKL investor materials supplied July 14, 2026
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Investment opportunity

Fund the platform and the next stage of scale.

$30M raiseTargeting 30% equity ownership.
$1M minimumPreferred equity with first-out return on a sale.
$10M reported fundedManagement stated on July 14 that $10M was in the bank. Verify the funded amount and remaining allocation before reliance.
Platform: launch and grow EKKL Streaming.
Acquisition: complete EKKL's purchase of Tread Lively, subject to the definitive transaction documents.
Growth: content and marketing, plus sales and member acquisition.
Founder contribution: $1M founder capital, Pinnacle Peak, access to 150+ premium titles within the 200+ launch catalog, and the Pure Flix operating team.

Confidential discussion material. This is not an offer, solicitation, or recommendation to buy or sell securities. No regulator, including the SEC, has recommended, approved, or disapproved EKKL, any securities, or this material. Information is incomplete and subject to independent diligence. Definitive legal, accounting, and financial documents control. Do not reproduce or distribute without EKKL's written consent. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees.

Sources: EKKL investor materials and management working session, July 14, 2026
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Why EKKL.

Medium

The company is built around the system that carries the story.

The operating question is simple: does this help creators tell better stories?

Experience

Years inside television and film, then podcasts and family entertainment, revealed where the existing pipes fail.

Alignment

Creators earn and advertisers perform. Audience trust remains the constraint.

Compounding

Each creator strengthens distribution and commerce. The next creator benefits from the audience trust already earned.

Stewardship

Capital returns to stories and creators. Community and mission benefit too.

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