Methods

The methods and architectures behind Advisor

Definitions written for CFOs, FP&A, procurement, and strategy leaders — without the marketing.

• What is an AI business advisor?

  An AI business advisor combines enterprise data with structured business methodology to deliver forecasts, variance explanations, cost recommendations, and strategic scenarios. Definition, architecture, and use cases.

• What is hybrid AI for the enterprise?

  Hybrid AI combines deterministic engines, machine learning, and language models inside a structured framework. It is the architecture enterprise finance and procurement need — not an LLM wrapped around your data.

• What is variance explanation in FP&A?

  Variance explanation decomposes the gap between plan and actuals into driver-level causes — volume, price, mix, FX, timing — and connects them to operational decisions. Definition, methods, and how AI accelerates it.