Why your budget season is already decided
The H1 books just closed, the board deck is coming together and then a new invite lands on your calendar: Long-range plan — kickoff. Next year, already.
Here's the quiet truth about July: it's the month two years share a desk. You're still explaining the one you're in, the variances, the board narrative, the Q3 forecast you just reset, while someone upstairs wants a first look at the one that hasn't started yet.
The long range plan hangs over you until budget season hits in September. Start it in July and it's less work than it sounds. If your model already holds this year's actuals and drivers, next year's first pass is closer than it feels. What's the one part of the plan you dread pulling together every year? Reply and tell us...chances are we've built it before.
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PIGMENT AI
More AI, more questions
Pigment's AI is moving fast right now — new capabilities landing regularly, with new pricing to match — and most teams still aren't sure how to actually use any of it well: where it helps, where it doesn't, and how far to trust it. Let us help you get set up.
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PRODUCT UPDATES
Your agents can read the web now - on your terms
Scenarios run best with outside context, FX rates, market moves, benchmarks. Pigment's new web access for Agents can search the web for fresh, current context and fold it into their answers and you choose exactly which sites they can reach (or open it to the full web). Point them at your one approved FX source, and every exchange-rate question draws from that source, every time.
Switching it on takes a couple of clicks (Settings → Integrations → Restrict), and setting the right guardrails is where we can help.
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PRODUCT PREVIEW
Your model is only as good as its data
Last month we told you TwinSix Spark was on the way. We built it because nearly every finance team we meet is fighting the same quiet battle with data. Planning season makes this battle impossible to ignore: you can't model next year with confidence in numbers you don't fully trust.
EXECUTIVE SESSION
A fellow customer, showing how it's done
Goodwin, one of our customers, joined us to chat about rebuilding the financial engine of a law firm. If you or anyone you know sits in the office of the CFO at a partnership-led business — a law firm, accounting firm, consultancy, or any partner-owned model this one's built for you. Available on demand now.


