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Pigment is a cloud business planning platform for finance, sales, workforce and operational planning. It suits fast-growing mid-market and upper mid-market companies whose models change often. If the question on your desk is why a number moved, and your data arrives as exports, there is a lighter way to answer it.
Pigment is a cloud business planning platform for finance, sales, workforce and operational planning. Teams model, forecast and run scenarios on connected data in a shared, visual workspace, with AI agents that help build models and analyse results.
None of these is a fault in Pigment. They are situations where a team needs something narrower, sooner or lighter than what it is built to do.
| The situation | How Covirage approaches it |
|---|---|
| A full planning platform can be more than a team needs to explain one variance | Covirage does one job: explain why the numbers moved, from the files you already have |
| Standard deployments involve discovery, model design and integration over a couple of months | The first answer comes in minutes on a file; set up for you within a week |
| Professional services add to the first-year cost | Set up is done by us as part of the tier |
| Planning data often sits in a cloud warehouse the platform connects to | No warehouse is needed: the ledger, budget and headcount exports are enough |
| Pigment | Covirage | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Fast-growing mid-market and upper mid-market companies whose models change often; Finance teams that want to plan across finance, sales and headcount without a dedicated modelling centre | The person waiting for the answer: one desk, then the next |
| How it gets data | Pigment connects to ERP and accounting systems (NetSuite, SAP S/4HANA, Sage Intacct, Xero, QuickBooks), Salesforce, HR systems (Workday, HiBob, BambooHR, Personio and others), data warehouses (Snowflake, Redshift, Azure SQL, Databricks, BigQuery), cloud storage and SFTP, Excel and Google Sheets, and a custom API. | Files and sheets now; scheduled delivery by API, S3, Azure, SFTP or email on Business; connections built with your team on Enterprise |
| Needs before the first answer | Someone to design the planning model, in-house or with a partner; Connections to the ERP, CRM, HR system or data warehouse; Discovery and model design work before go-live | The exports your systems already produce. No warehouse, no modelling language, no data team |
| Typical setup | CFO Shortlist estimates 2-4 months for a standard FP&A deployment and 4-6 weeks for simple pilots. | Minutes on a file you already export; set up for you within a week |
| AI | Pigment AI includes a Modeler Agent that builds and changes governed models, an Analyst Agent that analyses data, automates reporting and flags risks and opportunities, custom agents built from user instructions, a Documentation Agent, machine-learning forecasting, a formula explainer, and a Pigment MCP server that links Pigment to external AI systems. A Planner Agent for scenarios and forecasts is listed as coming soon. | The AI model chooses a measure and writes the explanation; our tools do the arithmetic and check every total |
| Published pricing | Pigment does not publish prices. Vendr reports a median annual cost of $74,000 across 117 purchases (range $33,640 to $168,100), made up of a platform fee, role-based user seats and planning modules. | Three tiers on one sheet, shared in a conversation |
| Getting data out | Tables and Metrics can be downloaded as Excel (.xlsx) or CSV; Dimensions and Transaction Lists as CSV only. Any member with read access to a block can download its data. Pigment also lists a custom API among its integration options. | Export every table as a workbook or JSON at any time |
Many teams use both: Pigment for what it is built for, and Covirage for the recurring question a desk would otherwise hand to an analyst.
Yes. Pigment holds the plan; Covirage reads the actuals and the plan as exports and explains the variance with a bridge that sums to it, naming the cost centres and separating timing from real overspend.
Sometimes, and often not. Pigment is built for fast-growing mid-market and upper mid-market companies whose models change often. Covirage answers one desk's questions from the files that desk already exports, set up for you in a week. Many teams keep Pigment for what it is built for and use Covirage for the question it would otherwise leave to an analyst.
It starts with the exports those systems already produce: files and sheets now, scheduled delivery by API, S3, Azure, SFTP or email on Business, and connections built with your team on Enterprise. We never hold credentials to your systems.
No. The AI model chooses which measure answers the question and writes the explanation. Our tools do the arithmetic, and every total is checked before it is shown. If a question needs a measure we do not have, the assistant says so.
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