For CFOs & FP&A Leaders Using Excel for Budgeting & Forecasting

Forecast 10x Faster.

Without Replacing Excel. Without Retraining Your Team.

A3 is the Excel-Friendly Cloud: a full enterprise FP&A platform that runs underneath the Excel your team already uses. Connected to your GL. No manual data entry. No multi-month rollout.

Book Your 20-Minute Call → 20 minutes · See it on your own numbers · No preparation, no obligation
Eliminates manual data entry
Keep Excel, forecast 10x faster
Scale without new software training

Trusted by finance teams at

ClarinsFoxSchneider National Rockefeller GroupWilliamsFirst United
Sound Familiar?

Your team is not slow. Your process is.

Whether you are stretched across fragile spreadsheets or stuck with a legacy CPM tool, the symptoms are the same.

Manual data entry eats the cycle

Your team spends the first week of every close copying, pasting, and reconciling numbers by hand before a single forecast gets built.

Spreadsheets break at scale

Disconnected files, version confusion, and formula errors nobody can trace. The bigger the business gets, the more fragile the model becomes.

The alternative means starting over

Every CPM vendor wants a multi-month rollout, an IT project, and your whole team retrained on software they did not ask for.

A3 is not an Excel add-in

The Excel-Friendly Cloud: how the 10x actually happens

Your team keeps the tool they know. A3 puts a governed, connected enterprise engine underneath it, so Excel finally scales.

1

Connect your data once

Your GL and source systems link directly to a secure central model. The manual data entry step disappears, permanently.

2

Forecast in Excel, at scale

Build models, run scenarios, and generate reports in the same Excel your team opened this morning, now tied to one source of truth.

3

Collaborate in real time

Budget owners contribute in live templates that update instantly. No emailed files, no consolidation weekend, no version chaos.

What Changes

What your team gets back

Enterprise capability, without the implementation pain or the user resistance of ripping Excel out.

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Zero retraining

It is still Excel. Your team is already trained, so adoption happens on day one instead of quarter three.

Dramatically faster cycles

Manual inputs, email chains, and spreadsheet cleanup come out of every budget and forecast cycle.

One version of the truth

A single connected model ends version chaos and the formula errors that creep in as spreadsheets grow.

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Enterprise governance

Secure, compliant, and audit-ready, with the controls your CFO and your auditors both expect.

Proof

Finance leaders who kept Excel and got the speed anyway

★★★★★

"Before A3, the budget process was chaos. Now it is workflow-driven, efficient, and practically runs itself."

Budget Manager, Manufacturing
★★★★★

"We love Excel, and with A3 we did not have to give it up to get the scalability and security of a CPM app."

Director of Financial Systems, Construction
★★★★★

"Enterprise-class CPM capability, but at our price, on our schedule, and fully adaptable to our process."

VP Planning, Banking
Book Your Call

See the 10x on your own numbers

A relaxed 20-minute call. No hard sell, no slide deck. Just a look at what your forecasting process looks like when the manual work comes out of it.

What happens on the call

  • We walk through how your team forecasts today and find where the time actually goes
  • We show a live budget, a scenario run, and a board-ready report, all inside Excel
  • You see exactly how A3 would connect to your GL and map to your existing process
  • You get a straight answer on timeline and what your team would need to learn (spoiler: nothing)
  • If it is not a fit, we will tell you on the call rather than chase you for a quarter
20 minutes · No preparation needed · No obligation
Bring one forecast question you wish you could answer faster.
Questions

Before you book

Do we really not have to retrain the team?

Correct. Your team keeps working in Excel exactly as they do now. A3 changes what sits underneath the spreadsheet, not what your analysts see on screen. There is no new interface to learn.

Is A3 just an Excel add-in?

No. A3 is a full enterprise FP&A platform connected to your GL and source systems, secure and audit-ready. Excel is the front end your team already knows, not the engine.

Where does the 10x come from?

Mostly from removing manual data entry, consolidation, and report rebuilding from every cycle. We will walk you through the specific steps that disappear in your process on the call.

How long does implementation take?

There is no multi-month rollout or heavy IT project. Because your team keeps working in Excel, adoption is fast and the rollout risk is low.

We are mid-contract with a legacy CPM tool. Worth talking?

Yes. Many teams come to A3 frustrated with a tool that took too long to implement or that keeps Excel at arm's length. Twenty minutes is a cheap way to compare.

Is our financial data secure?

Yes. A3 keeps your data secure, compliant, and audit-ready, with the governance and controls enterprise finance teams require.

Keep Excel. Lose the manual work.

See what your forecasting process looks like running 10x faster.

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20 minutes · No preparation · No obligation
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