Planful Wins 2025 AI Breakthrough Award for Innovation in AI-Based Analytics

Company Recognized for Exceptional Innovation in Applying AI To Complex Financial Data and Processes

SAN FRANCISCO, June 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Planful Inc., the pioneer of financial performance management cloud software, announced it has won the 2025 AI Breakthrough Award for "AI-based Analytics Innovation." This prestigious award honors Planful's achievements in delivering AI solutions that help growing and global teams boost productivity, ease workload pressures, and close talent gaps with AI-driven efficiency.

Planful was selected from over 5,000 global nominations and joins an elite group of 2025 AI Breakthrough Award winners. Winning the AI Breakthrough Awards, which recognizes "trailblazing AI industry innovators," reinforces Planful's commitment to approachable, human-centered AI that enables finance, accounting, and other teams across the business to work smarter, faster, and with greater confidence.

"Planful AI is purpose-built for finance and accounting teams. It's deeply embedded in the Planful platform, enterprise-secure, and already delivering real results for our customers," said Steve Welsh, Chief Product Officer at Planful. "From close and consolidations, to planning, forecasting and reporting, Planful AI helps teams move faster, improve accuracy, and focus on more strategic work. Winning this award reinforces our belief that when AI augments people, not replaces them, it elevates performance across the entire business."

At its recent user conference, Perform25, Planful unveiled a suite of persona-based AI assistants built leveraging Planful's deep domain expertise and customer-driven insights. These assistants are designed to reduce the mundane, repetitive, and manual effort of finance and accounting teams, generate domain-specific insights, and support decision-making across the office of the CFO.

Planful AI assistants include:

• Analyst: Delivers variance insights, narrative generation, report analysis, and scenario building to support financial analysts.
• Planner: Supports forecasting and scenario optimization for financial planners.
• Controller: Assists controllers with compliance reviews and automated adjustments.

Additional Planful AI assistants, such as Business Analyst, Modeler, and Administrator, were also announced at Perform25 and are planned for release in upcoming product cycles.

About Planful
Planful is the pioneer of financial performance management cloud software. The Planful platform, which helps businesses drive peak financial performance, is used around the globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and analytics. Planful empowers finance, accounting, and business users to plan confidently, close faster, and report accurately. More than 1,500 customers, including Bose, Boston Red Sox, Five Guys, Grafton Plc, Gousto, and Specialized rely on Planful to accelerate cycle times, increase productivity, and improve accuracy. Planful is a private company backed by Vector Capital, a leading global private equity firm. Learn more at planful.com.

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