Developing Tools to Create Efficiencies in Finance and FP&A using AI
Established in 2025, ACG AI Labs is an internal team focused on advancing the use of AI in Finance, FP&A and Enterprise Performance Management. With deep expertise in the EPM space, we design and deploy practical AI solutions that create operational efficiency and generate tangible business value.
ACG’s AI Financial Analyst is an intelligent AI agent that automates reporting and financial analysis in Finance and FP&A. It reviews financial results, evaluates them against plan or forecast expectations, identifies variances, explains calculations and drills down into detail. It can create a custom formatted summary of findings in Word or PDF format for reporting and distribution.
The AI analyst supports real-time interactions using natural-language. I can understand even a complex finance infrastructure with data residing in multiple systems. It will identify data flows between both databases and reporting cubes to provide meaningful business insight into drivers of performance.
AI Tools and Agent – Consulting and Implementation
ACG’s team of AI specialists provides expert consulting and implementation services to help companies enhance their existing systems and processes using AI. Our approach focuses on introducing AI into the enterprise through incremental steps, ensuring sustainability and maximizing adoption. We prioritize implementing capabilities that provide real, tangible business value and are efficient, reliable and secure.
We focus on finance systems and technologies, including IBM Planning Analytics, and have developed solutions using platforms such as Snowflake and Microsoft Synapse. Our AI capabilities can integrate with any major data provider that supports API or ODBC access.
We have developed and offer a library of tools and processes that support our AI-enabled Finance solutions. These tools perform a range of functions and are applied in different combination as appropriate in every scenario. Because each major platform provider requires a slightly different set of capabilities to operate effectively, we have adapted our tools to support flexible and customized deployments.
These tools are typically deployed on our MCP server, which manages interactions between AI agents and finance systems. For a detailed list of tools, please refer to the Technical Tools page. As this is a rapidly evolving space, the list presented highlights only the major categories. We continue to expand our capabilities and can discuss additional tools and specialized functionality as needed.
