CerebroCerebro for FP&A

AI Financial Intelligence

One Version of Financial Truth.

Cerebro builds a unified intelligence layer across your ERP, planning tools, actuals, and operational data — so finance leaders can finally ask questions that cross system boundaries and trust the answers they get.

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The Problem

Every System Has a Number.
None of Them Match.

The modern finance organization runs on data from a dozen disconnected systems. Your ERP holds actuals. Your planning tool holds the budget. Your forecast lives in a spreadsheet. Your headcount costs are in HR. Your operational drivers are in systems finance has never been able to query directly.

Every quarter, your FP&A team spends weeks manually pulling, reconciling, and validating data before any analysis can begin. By the time the numbers are clean, the window for meaningful action has already closed. And when leadership asks why the forecast missed, nobody can answer quickly because tracing variance across disconnected systems takes days.

75%Of FP&A team time spent on data gathering and reconciliation rather than analysis
3–5Disconnected tools a finance team reconciles manually each quarter
4–6 wksTypical time to close the books and produce a reliable management report
1 in 3Finance leaders who say they don't fully trust their own forecast numbers

The data exists. The unified intelligence layer doesn't. Until now.

Cerebro doesn't replace your finance systems. It connects them — and builds the intelligence layer that lets your team spend less time reconciling and more time deciding.

The Landscape

Three Approaches. None of Them Unify.

Finance teams have tried to solve the data fragmentation problem for decades. The tools have changed. The problem hasn't.

ERP alone: Too narrow. Your ERP is the system of record for actuals — not for planning, forecasting, or operational intelligence. Connecting it to everything else is a manual process that breaks every time something changes.

FP&A platforms: Too rigid. Modern planning tools like Anaplan and Workday Adaptive are powerful within their own data model. But the intelligence stays inside the platform — and the cross-system questions still go unanswered.

BI & reporting tools: Too static. Dashboards and reports show you what happened. They don't explain why, model what could happen, or connect operational drivers to financial outcomes in real time.

ERP AloneFP&A PlatformsBI & ReportingCerebro for FP&A
Cross-System Unification
No
Partial
Manual
Fully unified
Time to Insight
Weeks
Days to weeks
Days
Hours
Operational + Financial Data
No
Limited
No
Yes
Scenario Modeling
No
Yes: within platform
No
Yes: across all systems
Variance Explanation
Manual
Limited
No
Ontology-driven
AI & Ontology Team Included
No
No
No
Yes: ongoing
You Own the IP
No
No
No
Yes
Explainable AI
No
Black box
No
Fully traceable

There's a better path. We built it.

One intelligence layer across your entire financial operation — fully unified, fully explainable, and fully owned by you.

How It Works

From Fragmented Financial Data to Unified Intelligence

01

Connect Your Systems

Cerebro connects to your ERP, planning tools, actuals databases, HR systems, and operational data sources. No migration. No disruption. No rip and replace.

02

Build the Financial Ontology

Cerebro builds a unified knowledge model of your entire financial operation — accounts, cost centers, budgets, actuals, forecasts, headcount, and operational drivers — all connected in a single semantic layer.

03

Ask Questions That Cross System Boundaries

Any finance leader or business partner can ask questions that have never been answerable from a single system. Real answers. In real time.

04

Prove It, Expand It

Start with one use case. Prove the value. The ontology becomes your financial intelligence foundation — a capitalizable asset your team owns and scales across the entire planning and reporting cycle.

Chat With Your Data

Ask Your Financial Data Anything

No dashboards to learn. No reports to build. Just ask.

Scenario

Forecast vs Actuals

VP of FP&A

We missed our Q3 revenue forecast by $4.2M. Where did the variance come from?
The $4.2M variance breaks down across three drivers. Enterprise new business came in $2.1M below plan. Close rates in the last six weeks of the quarter dropped 18 points against forecast assumptions. Expansion revenue was $1.4M below plan, driven by three large accounts that delayed upsell decisions. Professional services was $700K below plan due to project delays in two accounts that pushed revenue recognition into Q4.
Were those enterprise close rate assumptions flagged as at-risk before quarter end?
The close rate deterioration was visible in the engagement data six weeks before quarter end. The forecast model was not updated to reflect the change because the planning system and the engagement data were not connected. Cerebro now has both in the same ontology, so that variance would surface as a forward-looking risk in real time going forward.
What is the equivalent risk in the current quarter forecast?
Applying the same signal pattern to the current quarter, $3.1M of the current enterprise forecast shows similar early warning indicators — low engagement velocity, stalled deal progression, and close dates that have not moved in 21 days. That represents the highest concentration of forecast risk in the current period.

Who It's For

Every Leader Who Needs to Trust the Numbers. One Platform.

Cerebro for FP&A serves every leader whose decisions depend on financial data that currently lives in more than one system — and that is every leader in the business.

Chief Financial Officer

Get a single, trustworthy view of financial performance, forecast risk, and cost exposure — without waiting weeks for reconciliation to finish.

VP of FP&A

Stop spending 75% of your team's time on data gathering. Build the intelligence layer that lets your analysts focus on insight and scenario modeling.

Chief Executive Officer

Understand what the numbers mean, not just what they are. Cerebro connects financial performance to the operational drivers behind it.

Business Unit Leaders

Get real answers about your budget, your headcount costs, and your contribution to plan — without waiting for a finance report that is already two weeks old.

Chief Data Officer

Finally build a governed, unified intelligence layer across your financial systems. Own the ontology as capitalizable IP — a permanent asset, not a quarterly deliverable.

Board & Investors

Narratives backed by connected intelligence across every financial system. Variance explained. Risk quantified. No surprises.

The Foundation

A Cerebro Business Function

Cerebro for FP&A is powered by the same ontology-driven AI platform that Cyberhill has deployed across the U.S. Department of Defense and enterprise organizations worldwide. Financial planning intelligence is one business function. The platform goes further.

7+
Years
1,000+
Implementations
$11M
Investment

The Shared Foundation

Ontology-Driven

Traceable, auditable, explainable AI built on knowledge graphs

Deployed in Days

From kickoff to a unified financial intelligence layer — not months, not years

Your Data, Your Control

Data stays at rest under your governance — no migration required

You Own Everything

Capitalizable IP on your balance sheet — not a rental

Full AI Team Included

PhD scientists, ontology engineers, architects — all included

No Rip & Replace

Works with your existing ERP, planning tools, and financial systems

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