Abacum
Also known as: Abacum AI, abacum.ai, Abacum Intelligence, AI Modeler
FP&A platform for growing companies whose AI Modeler builds, edits and explains planning models from plain language once a user approves the plan, while AI classifies incoming data, flags anomalies, builds dashboards from a prompt and answers in Claude, Gemini or ChatGPT over MCP.
Abacum, founded in 2020 by former CFOs Julio Martínez and Jorge Lluch and headquartered in New York with offices in Barcelona, Toronto and Buenos Aires, sells an FP&A platform for high growth and mid market companies. Finance teams run budgeting and forecasting, scenario, headcount and revenue planning, consolidation and month end reporting in it, with more than 700 native integrations pulling actuals from systems such as NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Salesforce, Snowflake, Stripe and Gusto into one governed model, and an Excel connector for teams that still work in spreadsheets. RapidSOS and Soundtrack are among its customers, and Abacum has raised $100 million.
Abacum Intelligence is the AI layer across the platform. AI Modeler, launched on October 13, 2026 for every customer, builds a working model from a request such as a P&L from general ledger data or from an uploaded Excel file, adds variables and breakdowns to existing models, explains how any number is calculated and suggests where a model can be simplified. It lays out every variable and formula for approval before anything saves, asks for explicit confirmation before a delete and shows its downstream impact, and works inside the user's own permissions while Abacum's calculation engine does the math.
Around it, AI classifies, maps and cleans incoming data and flags anomalies as it lands, AI Spaces builds a dashboard from a template or a prompt for review before publishing, Scenario Studio adds AI forecasting and backsolving, and workflow automation routes budget inputs and approvals. The agent answers questions from platform data and from files attached to a chat, and an MCP connection brings the same governed answers into Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT.
Abacum is sold by quote, and AI Modeler comes with the platform at no additional cost. Abacum holds a SOC 2 Type II report and an ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certificate from Armanino LLP, supports single sign on through any SAML or OpenID Connect provider, and assigns roles by group, with an edit history across models, spaces and dimension mappings. Every customer is hosted on AWS in Ireland and Germany, and the AI features also draw on Microsoft's Azure AI services in Europe and on Anthropic in the United States, models Abacum selects.
Abacum fits a growing finance team that wants an AI native planning platform it can run without consultants, with an agent that builds and changes models only after a person approves the plan. It fits less well a buyer that needs to host outside Europe, choose the model behind its agents, or drive the platform through a public API.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://www.abacum.ai
Category
Enterprise operations agent
Subcategory
AI native FP&A platform with a modeling agent
Funding status
Private and venture backed, with $100 million raised, and headquartered in New York.
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
Primary use cases
Target customers
Deployment options
Integrations
More than 700 native integrations bring in ERP, HRIS, CRM, billing and data warehouse data, including NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Microsoft Dynamics 365, SAP, Xero, Salesforce, HubSpot, Snowflake, BigQuery, Stripe, Workday, Rippling and Gusto, plus SFTP and an Excel connector. An MCP connection brings Abacum's governed data into Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT, and reports go out through Slack, email or PDF.
In practice
A VP of Finance needs a headcount plan by Friday. An analyst asks AI Modeler to build it from the connected HR and ledger data, reviews each proposed variable and formula, approves the plan, and the model is live the same morning.
A new FP&A manager inherits a revenue model nobody on the team built. She asks the agent how next quarter's bookings figure is calculated and gets the logic walked line by line before her first forecast review.
A controller wants marketing spend split by channel in the operating expense model. The agent adds the variable and the channel dimension, updates the totals and saves once she approves the change.
A finance lead runs budget season through department spaces that open and lock by status. When the CFO asks what moved in the forecast, the agent returns the changelog with old and new values and who made each change.
Sources & related URLs
Research sources
Agentic Index coverage score
9.0 / 14 capabilities · 64%
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Data comes into Abacum through more than 700 native integrations across ERP, HRIS, CRM, billing and data warehouse systems, plus SFTP and an Excel connector, and the AI works on the model those feeds keep current. Teams that keep hybrid models in spreadsheets stay in step through a two way Google Sheets integration or Excel uploads. The MCP connection runs the other way, carrying Abacum's governed answers out to Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT. None of the agents creates, updates or sends anything in the source systems themselves, so their actions stay inside Abacum's own models, spaces and mappings. Sourceabacum.ai/product/dataread 2026-10-13 |
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| Workflow Orchestration | Full |
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AI Modeler works from a plan. Asked for a model, it scans the connected datasets, picks a structure from its blueprints and proposes every variable and formula, and once approved it builds the model with its dimensions and totals in one pass, the same way it adds a variable and a new breakdown to a model that already exists. Workflow automation carries planning across people. Department spaces are duplicated by dimension, open and lock by status, and route budget and headcount requests to finance for a decision. Sourceabacum.ai/blog/ai-modelerread 2026-10-13 |
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| Knowledge Grounding & RAG | Full |
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Answers come from the governed model Abacum keeps current from connected systems, so a question about pipeline conversion or spend by vendor rests on the same actuals, plans and dimensions finance reports from. AI Modeler also draws on a curated library of model blueprints that Abacum keeps extending. Board packs, contracts, benchmarks or meeting notes attached to a chat add outside context to that conversation alone. Sourceabacum.ai/watch-and-learn/how-can-i-add-context-to-abacum-intelligence-agent-conversationsread 2026-10-13 |
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| Human Oversight & Guardrails | Full |
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AI Modeler shows its whole proposal, variable by variable with the logic behind each, and saves nothing until a user approves it, after refining it in plain language if needed, or rejects it. A delete needs explicit confirmation, with its downstream impact shown first. The agent can read or change only what the user could already read or change by hand, and budget requests from department heads wait as pending until finance approves or rejects them. Sourceabacum.ai/blog/ai-modelerread 2026-10-13 |
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| Security, Identity & Governance | Full |
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Single sign on works with any identity provider that uses SAML or OpenID Connect, and roles are assigned by group from one screen, down to sensitive payroll and compensation data, with the AI working inside that same permission structure. Abacum holds a SOC 2 Type II report and an ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certificate issued by Armanino LLP and declares GDPR compliance. Data is encrypted at rest with AES 256 GCM and in transit over TLS 1.2 or later, and its trust center shares reports and policies on request. Sourceabacum.ai/product/securityread 2026-10-13 |
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| Observability & Auditability | Full |
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Any result the AI produces can be inspected from its cell, showing the data sources, formulas and assumptions behind it. Abacum keeps a history of every edit to models, spaces and dimension mappings, and asking the agent what changed in a forecast returns the changelog with previous and new values, the dimensions touched and the person behind each change, inside Abacum or through an assistant connected over MCP. Each department head can pull the same trail for their own changes. Sourceabacum.ai/product/intelligenceread 2026-10-13 |
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| Memory & State Persistence | Partial |
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Within a conversation the agent keeps what it has been given, so a question asked again after a board pack is attached comes back with the pack's drivers folded into the answer. Approved models, published spaces and budget changes persist as the planning data itself. There is no sign of a memory that follows a user from one chat to the next or holds a team's conventions for later questions. Sourceabacum.ai/watch-and-learn/how-can-i-add-context-to-abacum-intelligence-agent-conversationsread 2026-10-13 |
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| Deployment & Data Residency | Not documented |
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Every customer runs on Abacum's AWS environment in the European Economic Area, in Ireland and Germany, with no other region on offer. AI processing on AWS stays inside the EEA, Microsoft's AI services run in the EEA and Anthropic in the United States. Abacum's data processing terms place the primary processing in the European Union and allow transfers to the United States where the service needs them. A buyer that must keep data in its own country or cloud has no option to choose. Sourcetrust.abacum.ai/subprocessorsread 2026-10-13 |
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| Prebuilt Agents / Templates / Packs | Full |
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AI Modeler can start from a curated library of model blueprints, so a requested P&L or headcount plan follows a proven structure from the first build. AI Spaces comes with a library of finance templates, ready prompts that build the reports finance runs each month on the customer's own model in a click. The AI Classifier, anomaly detection, AI Forecasting with backsolving and Modeler each do a separate job and work without the others. Sourceabacum.ai/product/intelligenceread 2026-10-13 |
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| Triggers & Channel Coverage | Full |
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Incoming data starts work without anyone asking. As actuals land from connected systems, the AI classifies new accounts, maps and cleans the records and flags anomalies as they appear, and it pulls in business signals such as deal sentiment and product usage. Modeler and the chat agent start from a person's request inside Abacum, by typing or by voice, and the MCP connection lets the same question start in Claude, Gemini or ChatGPT. Sourceabacum.ai/newsroom/abacum-rethinks-ai-for-finance-with-the-launch-of-abacum-intelligence-a-platform-wide-intelligence-layerread 2026-10-13 |
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| Model Flexibility & Routing | Partial |
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Abacum picks the models. Its AI features run through AWS inside the EEA, Microsoft's Azure AI services in the EEA and Anthropic in the United States, and no setting lets a customer choose or swap the model behind an agent. Calculations never go to a model, since Abacum's own engine performs every one. A team that prefers its own assistant can reach Abacum data from Claude, Gemini or ChatGPT, while the agents inside Abacum stay on Abacum's choice. Sourcetrust.abacum.ai/subprocessorsread 2026-10-13 |
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| APIs / SDKs / MCP Extensibility | Partial |
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An MCP connection lets Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT query Abacum data under the same governance and pull the forecast change report. Its address, sign in method and tool list are not public, and no public API or developer reference for the platform is offered, so outside software works with Abacum through that connection, the Excel connector, SFTP and exports. Sourceabacum.ai/product/intelligenceread 2026-10-13 |
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| Testing, Debugging & Optimization | Not documented |
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Nothing lets a customer test an agent before it reaches users, such as scored test cases or a staging step for AI changes. AI Modeler's Review mode reads a customer's model and suggests where its logic can be simplified, which checks the model, not the agent. Abacum runs its own observability and evaluation tooling for the language models behind its features, out of the customer's hands. Sourceabacum.ai/blog/ai-modelerread 2026-10-13 |
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| Browser / Computer-use | Not documented |
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Abacum's agents work through the platform's own model, its native integrations and its MCP connection, and none of them drives a browser or a desktop application. Data arrives through connectors and SFTP, and spreadsheets link through the Excel connector, with no screen automation involved. Sourceabacum.ai/product/dataread 2026-10-13 |
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The Agentic Index coverage score grades every vendor Full, Partial or Not documented against the same 14 buyer facing capabilities, from public evidence only. Each capability links to how all vendors in the index score on it. How this evidence is graded
Pricing
No public prices. Abacum sells by quote.
Quoted platform subscription, set after a demo.
Included quota
Not public. AI Modeler is included in the platform at no additional cost.
What is public
That Abacum sells by quote and that AI Modeler comes with the platform at no additional cost.
Billing mechanics
A platform subscription quoted after a demo.
Cost watchouts
AI features other than Modeler run where they form part of the agreed services, so what a quote includes decides which of them a team gets.
Variable cost rationale
No usage metering, credit pool or overage terms for the AI features are public, and AI Modeler carries no additional charge.
Additional watchouts
AI processing beyond Modeler depends on the agreed services, so the quote decides which AI features are switched on.
Overage / add-ons
No AI metering or credit pool is public.
Sales call required
Yes, required for paid access
Free / trial
Interactive demo only
Lowest paid plan
Not public
Commercial notes
Abacum puts a typical go live at four to six weeks with guided onboarding.
Key ambiguities
No prices are public, and whether AI features beyond Modeler are included by default or added to a contract is not stated.
Missing data
Plan prices, seat terms and any AI usage limits.
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