“We cut monthly reporting from four days to one morning — and for the first time every number ties back to the ledger.”
Katrin M.
CFO · Series-B SaaS · Berlin
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NEW Zencount AI — ask your numbers why
Spreadsheets work overtime. Zencount makes forecasts.
Budgets, scenarios and forecasts in real time — plan and actuals in one model, every number traceable to the receipt. For Europe. From Europe.
Powering financial planning for leading CFOs, CEOs and finance teams
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One model
1
Model for budget, forecast, scenario and actuals — told apart only by version
Re-Mapping
0
Re-mapping to compare any two versions side by side
Traceable
100%
of aggregates traceable to their line items — SUM(lines) == cell
CSV to P&L
4
steps from a CSV export to a fully mapped P&L
The spreadsheet tax
Your plan is out of date the moment you close the file.
Department heads ask “why are we over?” — and the answer lives three exports, two pivot tables and one Slack thread away.
The answer today
3 exports · 2 pivots · 1 Slack thread later…
The answer with Zencount
Always one click deep.
Plan · Actuals · line items — one place, one source
One model, every version
Plan and actuals — finally the same shape.
Budget, forecast, scenario and the real numbers are the same dimensional fact, told apart only by version. Switch the comparison and the variance re-cuts instantly.
Compare any two versions — budget vs. actuals, forecast vs. scenario.
A grouped P&L you already read: revenue → cost of revenue → OpEx → net result.
Plan, actuals, both & Δ views with a clear forecast cutoff.
Pick comparison
vs Budget 2026vs Forecast 03/26
| Position | Plan | Actuals | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 2.406 | 2.438 | +32 |
| SaaS DACH | 1.296 | 1.308 | +12 |
| Operating Expenses | 1.887 | 1.905 | +18 |
| Paid Acquisition | 246 | 265 | +19 |
| Engineering | 1.076 | 1.084 | +8 |
Same rows, no re-mapping — the comparison is just a dropdown
From board number to line item
Drill all the way down — to the receipt.
Don’t like a variance? Open the cell and every booked line item is right there. Department heads answer their own questions instead of pinging finance.
Variance → cell → line items in two clicks.
The invariant holds everywhere: SUM(lines) == cell.
Defend every number to the board — or the auditor.
Paid AcquisitionAccount 6711 · Version Actuals · Jun
+€19K Δ LinkedIn Ads €56K+€11K
Google Search Ads €18K+€2K
Meta (FB/IG) €5K−€1K
LinkedIn Ads · 14 line itemsSUM(lines) == cell ✓
07 Mai May campaigns · DACH ICP €19.8K
21 Mai Brand awareness · DACH €7.2K
03 Jun June campaigns €21.4K
Plan for every future
Spreadsheets haunt. Zencount makes scenarios.
Base, downside, upside — the new hire, the raise, the slower quarter. Zencount AI drafts the scenario, you review the diff and confirm it into a new version.
Comparing
Budget 2026
- Revenue EOY
- €2,44M
- Runway
- 18.4 mo
- Burn / month
- €184K
Scenario
Downside Q3
- Revenue EOY
- €2,07M
- Runway
- 24.1 mo
- Burn / month
- €142K
Scenario
Upside · Hiring
- Revenue EOY
- €3,08M
- Runway
- 14.2 mo
- Burn / month
- €268K
You write“Draft a downside: revenue −15% from Q3, hiring freeze.”
AI proposal as a preview · written only after your confirm · carries source=ai
Run the cycle in the tool, not the inbox
Less cell warfare. More Zencount.
The CFO requests budgets in one click, each owner fills only their slice and submits, the CFO approves and locks the version — no more budget_v7_FINAL_final.xlsx.
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Budget 2026 · Submissions1 of 4 approved
| Department | Owner | Budget FY | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sales & Marketing | ARA. Reyes | 612 | Submitted |
| Engineering | MSM. Schmid | 1.084 | Draft |
| Product & Design | LPL. Petrov | 388 | Submitted |
| G&A | JHJ. Hess | 298 | Approved |
CFO requested budgets — every owner was notified
Finance owns the model
Structure, accounts and versions stay consistent — approve per slice, lock the result.
Owners own their slice
Department-scoped access, enforced in the database — no peeking at other teams.
One click to kick off
“Request budgets” notifies every contributor — in-app and by email, with full context.
Locked means locked
An approved, locked version is read-only. The final number can’t silently drift.
Intelligence, not just numbers
An analyst inside your model — not next to it.
Zencount AI answers against your live plan and actuals, drafts the scenario you describe, and runs your recurring reviews on schedule — it proposes, you decide.
Why is Q3 OpEx over budget?read_gridline_itemsPaid Acquisition +€19K — LinkedIn ran hot in May–June.
Ask in plain language
Answered from the real entries and line items — the tool chips show exactly what it read.
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It proposes. You decide.
Scenario drafts arrive as previews — nothing touches your model until a human clicks confirm.
Monthly · 1st · 08:00livePaid Acquisition+€19KHosting & Infra−€11K
Reviews that run themselves
Routines check your numbers on schedule and only ping you when something’s noteworthy.
Connect → Discover → Map → Sync
Your numbers in — without an implementation project.
One guided setup for every source. Upload a CSV today, wire the ERP tomorrow — your account mapping is remembered either way, and nothing lands without your commit.
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Security by architecture
Your data, isolated at the database.
Not a policy promise: the database refuses the query. Every business table is organization-scoped and protected by Postgres Row-Level Security.
Your vault, your key
Every organization is isolated in the database. Other tenants’ data isn’t “hidden” — it’s technically unreachable.
Everyone sees only their slice
Department heads see their budget, not the others’. Finance controls who sees what — the database enforces it.
No passwords, no risk
Sign in by magic-link or Google/Microsoft SSO. What isn’t stored can’t be stolen.
Encrypted at rest
Integration credentials are AES-256 encrypted — only the last 4 characters are shown. Servers in Germany.
What finance teams say
Built for teams that have to defend the numbers.
From chaos to clarityTotal chaos in.
Total chaos in.
Clarity & speed out.
Scattered tabs, versions and #REF! errors collapse into one model — one source, every answer in seconds.
budget_v7_FINAL_final.xlsxfx=VLOOKUP(A2,Sheet2!A:B,2)Board_Deck_Q3_final.pptxABC2.406#REF2.438“which version counts?”Slide 14 / 42fx=SUM(B2:B9999)Forecast_v8(2).xlsxCircular reference in R10442 tabs open−1.245,00 ≠ −1.180,00Q3_Pivot_FINAL.xlsxPlan_2026_v12.xlsxfx=INDEX(M:M,MATCH(A2,K:K,0))Actuals_March_final2.xlsxABC1.084#REF1.076“please don’t overwrite!”Investor_Update_v6.pptxfx=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(…),0)Reporting_CONSOLIDATED.xlsxv7? v8? FINAL?Budget_Sales_new.xlsxfx=SUMIF(D:D,">0")“latest version?”ABC531#DIV/0!533Slide 27 / 51Copy(3) of Budget.xlsx€2.406 ≠ €2.438fx=SUM(B2:B10000)
+3 devs from July
Revenue+15 %
Out of the chaos — try it now One source · answers in seconds · no implementation project