Use when the user wants their model in Excel with real working formulas - "export this to Excel", "a workbook I can hand my board", "something that recalculates when I change an assumption". Produces a live-formula workbook generated from the model structure and verified against the engine before delivery.
Use when producing a board deck, investor update, or CFO briefing from an openfpa forecast - turning model output into a board-ready narrative and exportable artifacts.
Use when building a new openfpa forecast model from a company's financials - a trial balance, a P&L export, or a pasted income statement - and you need a runnable config to exist before any forecasting or analysis.
Use when modeling a multi-segment company that discloses segment net sales and segment Adjusted EBITDA (ASU 2023-07) but not segment COGS or operating income - rolls segment P&Ls into a consolidated forecast and reconciles total segment Adjusted EBITDA to the disclosed total. Generated for Fox Factory (PVG/AAG/SSG).
Use when you want the model to learn from how its past forecasts actually turned out - scoring forecasts against the company's real actuals, backtesting assumptions on history, and proposing ratified improvements. Runs at/after monthly close.
Use when a human reviewing a forecast catches something off ("December always spikes", "you're double-counting deferred revenue", "that Q3 number was a one-time contract") - captures it as a durable, typed correction in the company's memory so future forecasts are grounded by it.
Use when answering "when do we run out of cash", building a 13-week cash forecast, sizing a credit line, or analyzing near-term liquidity and payment timing in openfpa.
Use when interpreting financial actuals, reviewing margins or cash, drawing conclusions from a P&L or balance sheet, or about to tell someone a number means something - the judgment layer that separates "AI that does math" from "AI that thinks like a CFO."