Finance teams switch from Runway for driver-level answers on why performance moved.

Sapien is the AI business analyst for finance and operations teams. It connects to your ERP, warehouse, and spreadsheets to explain what changed, why it changed, and what to do next.

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Cooper StandardBlink ChargingCarlex&pizzaOdekoRESRG Automotive

Sapien vs Runway

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Autonomously traces root causes to the exact transaction

Learns your specific company patterns over time

Data stays in your environment by default

Analyzes raw transactional data from source systems

Autonomous analysis beyond forecast deviation alerts

Purpose-built for cross-functional root-cause analysis (not just unified data)

Proactive insights

Anyone can use it (no SQL needed)

Variance Analysis
Gross Margin
Management Reports
Inventory Allocation
Pricing Optimization
Variable Contribution Margin
Operational Drivers
Driver-Based Forecasts
10-Q Reporting
Anomaly Detection
Budgets vs Actuals
Scrap/Yield Monitoring
and many more
Variance Analysis
Gross Margin
Management Reports
Inventory Allocation
Pricing Optimization
Variable Contribution Margin
Operational Drivers
Driver-Based Forecasts
10-Q Reporting
Anomaly Detection
Budgets vs Actuals
Scrap/Yield Monitoring
and many more

Why teams switch

Analysis you can trust, set up the way your business actually works.

Sapien connects directly to your ERP and operational data, learns how your company runs, and gives your team fast answers you can understand, verify, and act on.

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Company Context Model

Finance

General Ledger
Budget Files

Operations

Work Orders
Machine Perf.

Sales

CRM Pipeline
Revenue Data

Procurement

Purchase Orders
Vendor Spend
Sapien maps your org structure to your data, so every analysis starts with full context

A system that knows you and your business

Every formula, definition, and exception your team carries in its head. Sapien learns it once and applies it every time, so you do not rebuild context from scratch on every question.

Modules/Monthly P&L Report

Available Modules

Monthly P&L Report

Revenue, margin and EBITDA by site

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Cost Driver Analysis

Material, labor and overhead breakdown

Variance Report

Budget vs actuals with driver attribution

Analysis in minutes

When leadership wants contribution margin instead of gross margin, or by SKU instead of product family, Sapien recalculates in minutes instead of kicking off another reporting cycle.

Analyses/Site 4 Profit Drivers
Break down the drivers of profit change for site 4, go into detail and compare to other sites...

Site 4 is the only large site growing profit, with GP up $739.94K (10.91%) H1 2024 to H1 2025.

Site 4 Gross Profit Walk: H1 2024 → H1 2025

6.78MH1 2024Gross Profit1.09MNet PriceDelta0.52MVolumeEffect0.015MContractPricing(0.51M)MaterialCost(0.38M)OverheadCost7.52MH1 2025Gross Profit
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See where every number came from

Open any answer to see the source transactions, logic, and driver breakdown behind it, so finance can verify every number before acting on it.

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2024 Budget vs Actual Costs Monthly

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2024 Total Budgeted Spend

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Across all five sites

Actual Costs Exceeded Budget by 23%

The entire variance is driven by $207K in price mix, with volume contributing essentially zero.

Budget vs Actual Cost Variance by Site

Total budget of 89.63M rolls up to total actual of 110.05M across sites.

89.63MTotal Budget10.62MSite 5 Var4.72MSite 2 Var3.73MSite 3 Var1.21MSite 4 Var135KSite 1 Var110.05MTotal Actual

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Keeps watch on the business for you

Sapien flags margin compression, cost overruns, and unusual patterns as they emerge, not after someone spends a week building the report.

Integrations & Security

Works wherever your data lives.

Sapien works across SAP, NetSuite, Snowflake, BigQuery, Excel, and even 20-year-old on-prem ERPs. You do not need to move everything into a new warehouse first.

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Finance teams drive real impact with Sapien.

$12M

Error caught

SKU- and plant-level variance analysis

It does more than save us time. It enables us to get more granular with the data and better understand the drivers of better profitability for our business.

Alex Cohn

Alex Cohn

Sr. Director of Corporate Finance & Accounting, Carlex

30+ hrs

Saved per week

Self-service analytics across every location

We skipped a rung on the tech growth curve. Sapien has clearly helped us take a very different look at how we evaluate the business.

Doug Poppen

Doug Poppen

SVP of Strategy and Analytics, &pizza

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See Sapien against Runway on your data

We will show how Sapien handles the questions your team is using Runway for today, using your live data and business logic.

The role of CFOs has changed over the years, and now puts the entire CFO stack at an inflection point that’s ripe for disruption. In our view, Sapien is productizing the cutting edge of AI research for CFOs, with the opportunity to truly revolutionize how finance teams operate.

Ken Chenault

Ken Chenault

Former Chairman and CEO, American Express

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