Teams are under pressure to deliver faster insights and strategic guidance while reducing manual workloads. Traditional spreadsheet-based approaches often limit agility and scalability, leaving CFOs and their teams searching for smarter ways to plan, forecast, and report.
During this live demo, Kirk Kappelhoff, Sr. Director of Strategic Finance at Drivetrain, showcased how Drivetrain’s AI-powered platform is redefining financial planning and analysis. Drivetrain combines the familiarity of Excel with cutting-edge AI capabilities, enabling finance teams to consolidate data seamlessly, build models in clicks, generate variance analyses, and create executive-ready reports—all with greater speed and accuracy.
By acting as a data engineer, modeler, analyst, and storyteller, Drivetrain empowers finance leaders to unlock new levels of productivity and insight. The platform enables teams to automate repetitive tasks, reduce reliance on additional headcount, and free up capacity to focus on driving business growth.
Highlights:
- Drivetrain consolidates and cleans data from multiple sources, including ERP, HRIS, and spreadsheets, with AI-driven enrichment.
- Finance teams can build dynamic models in clicks using out-of-the-box templates and modify them with Excel-like logic.
- AI-powered variance analysis (BVA) and scenario planning provide faster, deeper insights for decision-making.
- Executive-ready dashboards and reports can be generated and shared automatically, including scheduled delivery.
- Collaboration is seamless across departments, with no per-seat licensing model.
- Innovative MCP integration allows conversations with Drivetrain data via AI assistants like Claude or GPT.
