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AI-First Planning with Pigment.
Delivered by Ascend.

Pigment delivers an AI-first planning platform for finance and business teams. Ascend combines deep EPM delivery experience with FP&A expertise to tailor it to how your organization plans, operates, and grows. 

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Many organizations we meet describe the same challenge. Data sits across disconnected tools. Budget cycles run long, and forecasts expire before approval. Sales, finance, workforce, and operations each work from their own plans, making it difficult to align around a single source of truth.

Connected planning closes that gap. When every function plans from the same models and drivers, leaders can spend less time reconciling numbers and more time deciding. 

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Why Pigment

Pigment is an AI business planning and performance management platform built for organizations that want connected, cross-functional planning and the agility to adapt to changing business conditions.

AI Agents Built into Planning

Pigment’s AI agents live in one unified space, where teams spot trends, explain variances, and query the plan in plain language. The Modeler Agent builds and evolves models, and Custom Agents adapt to your processes and terminology within Pigment’s governance model.

Flexibility Built into the Model

Adding a region, entity, or product line becomes a configuration change rather than a re-implementation. Leadership can view the business through legal, management, or alternate structures on one shared data model.

Scenarios in Minutes

Teams create new scenarios in minutes and compare them side by side before committing to a plan.

One Model Across Functions

Finance, sales, workforce, supply chain, and operations plan in the same model, so every function works from the same numbers.

See it. Model it. Decide.
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Why Ascend for Pigment

Modern organizations need a partner who understands EPM transformation from strategy through go-live. That’s why they choose Ascend.

Since 2014, Ascend Partners has delivered 700+ EPM projects, including complex planning and forecasting engagements for leading global organizations across real estate and home building, manufacturing, mining, hospitality, retail, and natural resources and energy.

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Ascend, in numbers

700+

projects successfully delivered

12

years in operation (founded in 2014)

120+

team members employed globally

The Ascend Way: Rigorous Delivery, Accelerated by AI

The Ascend Way is structured but flexible. Clear implementation frameworks take every engagement from discovery to deployment, with defined milestones, honest progress updates, and one team that owns the outcome through go-live and beyond.

AI accelerates our delivery. We use it to speed up requirements, documentation, and quality reviews, so stakeholders see working models sooner and feedback comes earlier. Every output is reviewed by an experienced consultant. AI-assisted; consultant-led.

Data and Integration Expertise

A connected plan is only as strong as the data behind it. Ascend’s data and integration specialists connect Pigment to your ERP, CRM, HR, and operational systems, so actuals flow in on schedule and planning starts from numbers your team already trusts. With clean, governed data in place from the start, finance spends less time preparing inputs and more time acting on the plan.

Industries We Serve

Every industry plans around different drivers. Our consultants know the drivers, terminology, and reporting structures your finance leaders use, and we build each Pigment model around them.

Manufacturing

Manufacturers balance production volumes, input costs, and capacity across multiple sites. We use Pigment to connect operational and financial plans through integrated business planning. When demand or costs shift, the P&L, inventory, and cash flow update together

Mining

Mining requires robust planning across multi-decade horizons and global portfolios of operations. We build Pigment models that support life-of-mine planning, commodity price and production scenarios, and roll-ups across many entities. Leadership can then evaluate each asset and the full portfolio from one model.

Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences

Pharma organizations need visibility into performance by product, market, and portfolio while meeting regulated reporting requirements. We design Pigment models that deliver P&L by product and market and connect commercial, R&D, and workforce plans to the financials. Portfolio decisions rest on numbers every function shares.

Real Estate and Home Building

Land acquisition drives development schedules. Schedules drive cost structures. Costs shape cash flow and capital allocation. For homebuilders, REITs, and property owners and operators, we build Pigment models that connect land pipelines, phased construction, lease variability, and occupancy in one plan.

Retail

Retailers plan across hundreds of stores, channels, and entities, often on tight reporting timelines. We build Pigment models that bring store-level revenue, labor, and inventory plans into one consolidated view. Leadership sees performance by store, region, and banner without waiting on manual roll-ups.

What We Deliver on Pigment

Driver-Based Modeling

We link revenue, cost, workforce, and capital drivers so your plans reflect how the business operates.

Plans update when the business changes, without a manual rebuild.

Rolling Forecasts

We build forecasts that adjust as market conditions move, instead of waiting for the next budget cycle.

Leadership always works from a current view of the year ahead.

Scenario Planning

We set up scenarios your team can create in minutes and compare side by side before committing to a plan.

Decisions get tested before they’re made.

Scenarios That Land in the Financials

We wire every driver, from volume and price to headcount and CapEx, into the P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow.

Every scenario becomes a number the CFO can stand behind.

Hierarchies Leadership Can Trust

We build the roll-up logic so executives can view the business through legal, management, or alternate structures on one shared model.

Executives get answers from any angle without reconciling spreadsheets first.

Integrated Business Planning

We connect finance with sales, workforce, supply chain, and operations in one planning framework.

Every function plans from the same assumptions and the same numbers.

Governance and Data Integrity

We set up transparent workflows, controls, and permissions across your Pigment model.

Leadership trusts the numbers and spends less time questioning them.

Accelerated Implementations

Our proven delivery frameworks, accelerated by AI and led by experienced consultants, take you from discovery to go-live with clear milestones.

Your team reaches value sooner, with fewer surprises along the way.

Managed Services

We stay after go-live to refine your model as you add entities, products, regions, and planning processes.

Your Pigment model evolves as your business does.

Plan Smarter. Plan with Confidence. Plan with Pigment & Ascend Partners

Frequently asked questions

What is Pigment?

Pigment is an AI business planning and performance management platform. It brings finance, sales, workforce, supply chain, and operations planning onto one connected model, with built-in AI agents that help teams build models, analyze results, and ask questions about the plan in plain language.

 

Why work with an implementation partner on Pigment?

Pigment is highly flexible, and the value depends on how the model is designed. An experienced partner translates your drivers, hierarchies, and reporting structures into a model your team can use from day one and extend as the business grows.

How does Ascend use AI in Pigment implementations?

We use AI to accelerate requirements, documentation, and quality reviews throughout delivery. Experienced consultants review every output and stay accountable for the solution.

Can Pigment support planning beyond finance?

Yes. Sales, workforce, supply chain, and operations can plan in the same Pigment model as finance, so assumptions and results stay consistent across the business.

For potential investors and lenders, scrutinizing a company's financial statements, including the balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statements, is a pivotal step in determining whether to invest or extend financial support to the enterprise. Financial reporting is the cornerstone of transparency and accountability in the business realm.

Industries we serve

From real estate to manufacturing, mining and everything in between, discover why OneStream is the CPM of choice for over 1,200 global enterprises across all verticals.

Why Ascend?

Our team possesses the perfect combination of technical expertise and extensive knowledge to provide cutting-edge solutions that perfectly align with the constantly evolving technological landscape of today and tomorrow.

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