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New amazing demo showcasing Concourse's Budget Variance Analysis capabilities. Wanted to share the breakthrough we're seeing with our customers: 🚀 From Raw Data to Actionable Reports in Seconds Remember those days spent compiling budget variance reports? Concourse is eliminating those hours by automatically connecting to your data, extracting key insights, and crafting a complete narrative—all in under 3 minutes. What used to take days now happens while you grab a coffee. 💬 Natural Language Refinement The most impressive part? Our customers are getting 90% of their analysis done automatically, then using simple conversational language to refine and enhance their reports. No more complex formulas or report-building skills required—just tell Concourse what you need, and watch it transform. 🔍 Beyond "What" to "Why" Standard reports tell you what happened. Concourse explains WHY it happened. During today's demo, we showed how Concourse automatically highlighted unexpected trends, explained complex drivers behind variances, and uncovered insights that would have taken hours of manual analysis to discover. For leaders making critical financial decisions, this is game-changing Faster access to deeper insights means quicker, more informed decisions and a completely different approach to data-driven leadership

It’s Reporting Week at Concourse 🚀 Watch Ted Michaels launch Concourse’s most recent and powerful AI agent for finance teams – our AI Reporting Agent! We've solved one of finance's biggest pain points: the endless hours spent creating and distributing reports. Our AI agents create detailed financial reports in minutes and allow finance teams to regain valuable time to focus on more important strategic priorities. But this isn't just about saving time. Our AI Reporting Agent: ⁉️ Uncovers the WHY behind your numbers, not just the WHAT 🎥 Adapts instantly to your business and the performance to highlight relevant information 🤝 Facilitates collaboration by automatically sharing insights with the right stakeholders Early users of Concourse’s AI reporting agent are already redirecting their talent toward strategic work that drives real business value while getting deeper financial insights than ever before. Leadership teams and executives are getting access to data faster and with more details than ever before to help them make decisions quicker. Insights are being shared that would have been buried before helping drive faster growth. We’ve got a ton of content and videos coming this week as part of Reporting Week to showcase Concourse’s AI reporting agents and how teams are using them today. DM for early access if solving financial reporting is a top priority for you!

Vertical AI agents for finance can help you automate work + answer business questions to make you 10x faster Concourse's AI analyst helps you find insights behind your financial and operational business data Finance teams who work with Concourse are more efficient & help their businesses grow thanks to our AI agents

Last week in San Francisco we hosted 2 amazing finance dinners with startup leaders at high growth companies with both Andreessen Horowitz and SVB The central theme for both dinners was around AI adoption within finance teams We had really rich conversations on how finance teams and leaders view AI as ways to augment their work and allow them to focus on the important priorities The modern CFO stack is evolving and those who have implemented AI are seeing massive amounts of leverage and efficiencies around removing manual tasks & scaling themselves There is a clear level of excitement within finance teams -- especially in the Bay Area -- where finance leaders are seeing the impact of AI within their departments and organizations We will continue to host dinners in both NYC and Austin next month -- let us know if you would like to be part of these conversations. Thank you again to: Ivan Makarov Vanessa Di Frances (Jimenez), MBA Mackenzie Lynn And everyone who showed up & shared their insights 🙏

Ryan Pack has been a driving force behind our AI initiatives, ensuring our finance team operates at peak efficiency. His leadership has helped us make smarter decisions and deliver elevated outcomes across the entire organization. Great to see his insights featured in Concourse.

The future of finance is being shaped now by forward-thinking leaders embracing the power of AI. In our latest blog post, we feature insights from 5 incredible finance professionals who are already leveraging AI to transform their departments and drive real results. We had the privilege of speaking with: Justin Hammergren, VP of FP&A at Lightmatter: Justin is focused on using AI to free his team from manual tasks, allowing them to focus on higher-value analysis and strategic initiatives. He sees AI as a key driver of efficiency and growth. Ryan Pack, VP of Finance at Alto: Ryan is a strong advocate for AI adoption, believing it empowers finance teams to deliver more tangible value to the organization. He's excited about AI's potential to improve visibility and communication. Melanie Arnold, Head of Finance at Billy - we ❤️ compliance!: Melanie is already using AI for data cleaning and structuring, enabling her to extract deeper insights and make faster, more informed decisions. She's particularly interested in AI's application in financial forecasting. Dave Atkins, Co-Founder & CEO at Yardstick: David sees AI as a game-changer for small businesses, providing access to powerful tools that were previously out of reach. He's leveraging AI to streamline financial operations and improve visibility across his business units. Ambuj Sharma, Head of Finance at Shef: With a strong background in analytics, Ambuj is using AI to supplement his work, automating routine tasks like trend analysis and variance analysis. He sees AI as a powerful "sidekick" for finance professionals. These leaders aren't just observing the AI revolution—they're actively building with it. They're demonstrating the tangible benefits of AI integration, from automating tedious tasks to gaining deeper insights and driving strategic growth for their companies. Read the full post in the comments!

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The role of an effective finance leader has completely changed.  Gone are the days when finance just meant accounting and forecasting. Today’s finance teams are being asked to do it all: 🔍Raw data analysis 🎯Strategic decision making 📊Forecasting and planning 💰Treasury management …. And much more With all these responsibilities, efficiency and automation isn’t just nice to have – it's essential. AI is the game-changer that finance has been waiting for, but getting started with AI can be a daunting task as it can seem like the landscape is changing every day. To help, yesterday we dropped a complete guide to the best AI tools for finance teams compiled from hundreds of conversations we had with finance teams that are already leveraging AI in their workflows. We break down the best tools for: ✨FP&A Tools – Concourse ✨Accounting Tools – Numeric, Truewind, Rillet ✨AR Tools – Maxio, Sequence, JustPaid ✨AP Tools – Brex, Ramp, Jeeves ✨Treasury Tools – Nilus, Finley Want to learn more? I’m here to help! -- Need intros to any of these companies? Just DM me -- Curious about automating your financial reporting? Let's set up a Concourse demo -- Have questions? Drop them below! 

We just released a complete guide on the best AI tools for corporate finance teams AI has completely changed what's possible and the impact software can have on teams and workflows In finance specifically -- the impact of AI has already shown massive impact in terms of reducing the manual work for teams across all departments from FP&A to treasury In this guide we highlight the most popular AI tools finance teams are implementing and using today to leverage AI. Modern finance teams are shifting their focus, time, and money to make AI work for them and this guide helps show where these shifts are happening across workflows and functions So happy to be a part of this transformation for corporate finance teams alongside Numeric, Truewind, Rillet, Maxio, Sequence, JustPaid, Brex, Ramp, Jeeves, Nilus, and Finley

Today we released a complete guide to the best AI tools for finance teams A growing trend of modern finance teams are implementing AI native tools to improve the efficiency of their teams and work -- leading to better results, faster growth, and better operations But most of time the question I get asked is: "How can I get started using AI for my work" Some finance professionals have already tried using generic AI tools and seen performance issues combined with an inability to automate real processes. Others just don't quite yet know where to start. This guide will help. To create this guide we gathered data from our conversations with 100s of finance leaders who are using AI today in their finance teams and grouped them according to workflows they help automate -- specifically * AI FP&A Tools * AI FP&A tools enable strategic finance leaders to choose more automation without losing flexibility when reporting and analyzing financial data through AI. We highlight Concourse as the leading AI FP&A tool * AI Accounting Tools * AI accounting tools are helping reduce reconciliation work through automating the close process to reduce human errors and free up time for more strategic tasks. We highlight Numeric, Truewind, and Rillet as leading tools * AI Accounts Receivable Tools * AI AR tools analyze customer payment history to predict potential delinquencies and prioritize collection efforts in addition to helping teams track and invoice contract terms seamlessly. We highlight Maxio, Sequence, and JustPaid as leading tools * AI Accounts Payable Tools * AI AP tools are changing how businesses manage their invoices and payment flows through the automation of manual tasks like receipt capture, policy enforcement, and rich payment controls. We highlight Brex, Ramp, and Jeeves as leading tools * AI Treasury Tools * AI treasury tools leverage LLMs to analyze market liquidity trends, predict cash flow, and optimize financial management to help treasury teams stay on top of liquidity and capital needs. We highlight Nilus, and Finley as leading tools Full guide in the comments with use cases, customers, funding and more for every tool we highlight I hope this guide is a great starting point for finance teams who are looking to modernize their stack and tools that have native AI capabilities Happy to personally help make introductions to any of the companies listed in the guide as they have all built amazing products and companies If automating reporting and analysis of financial data with AI agents is top of mind please reach out to me or Concourse and we would love to give you a demo. All feedback is welcomed!