OpenKnowra by Spire.AI · Finance Grid

Close in days. Forecast in hours. Govern every dollar.

One live truth across your entire finance office

The routine runs itself. Risk is caught before it costs you. And your team spends its time on judgment, not production.

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SOURCE SYSTEMS GOVERNED OUTCOMES GL PLANNING TREASURY TAX REVENUE PROCUREMENT CLOSE Days, not weeks TOWARD CONTINUOUS FORECAST Re-runs in hours ON EVERY TRIGGER CONTROLS 100% coverage AUDIT-READY LEAKAGE Caught live STOPPED, RECOVERED OPENKNOWRA ONE LIVE FINANCE TRUTH HUMAN GATE ON EVERY CALL THAT MATTERS
See it run

Pick a finance operation. Watch it run.

● real operations, illustrative data
◎ Context intelligence · understands
◫ Grid operating system · acts
01 · GROUNDQUEUED

02 · READQUEUED

03 · DECIDEQUEUED

04 · ASSEMBLEQUEUED

05 · RUNQUEUED

Context intelligence + grid operating system = autonomous operations
Assembly names are from the Spire.AI finance grid catalogue; decision data is illustrative.
The business impact

Four things get better. Measurably.

No promises, no benchmark theatre. These are the benefits the grid is built to deliver, each one measured against your own baseline in the proof of value. Hover any pointer for how it happens.

SpeedDecisions on live numbers
  • Close in days, moving toward continuous
  • Forecasts that re-run themselves in hours
  • Any variance explained in minutes, not days
ControlMoney governed before it moves
  • Leakage caught before payment, not in audit
  • Overruns flagged at commitment, not at invoice
  • Every capital dollar ranked by live return
CashWorking capital working for you
  • Receivables collected sooner, systematically
  • Unapplied cash driven toward zero
  • A cash forecast you can plan against
ConfidenceRisk seen before it costs you
  • Every transaction under controls, not samples
  • Audit evidence pre-assembled, replayable
  • Your team on every call that matters
And underneath all four: your best people move from producing numbers to exercising judgment.

DIRECTIONAL BY DESIGN · EACH BENEFIT IS BASELINED AND MEASURED ON YOUR OWN NUMBERS IN THE PROOF OF VALUE

The operating model

What your team stops doing. What it starts doing.

Stops
  • Manual journal entry and reconciliation follow-up
  • Rebuilding forecasts manually every cycle
  • Compiling reports manually from multiple systems
  • Sample-based control testing and manual evidence retrieval
  • Identifying spend leakage only after payment
Starts
  • Resolving the exceptions that need human judgment
  • Evaluating scenarios ahead of business decisions
  • Owning the judgment calls on targets, capital and risk
  • Partnering the business with timely, reliable answers
  • Signing off numbers with full traceability
The whole office of the CFO

Every tower. One split: machines carry the volume, people keep the judgment.

Planning, control and forecasting is where this grid starts. The same architecture runs the rest of the finance function, tower by tower, through companion grids for finance operations, procurement and banking. The diamond marks the gate: where autonomy ends and your judgment begins, by design.

T01Record to ReportHigh automation
Machines run itJudgment stays yours
Runs itselfJournals, reconciliations, intercompany matching, flux drafts, close orchestration.
Stays yoursJudgmental accruals, accounting policy positions, sign-off of the statements.
T02Procure to PayHigh automation
Machines run itJudgment stays yours
Runs itselfInvoice capture and coding, matching, exception resolution, optimised payment proposals.
Stays yoursNew supplier risk acceptance, release of high-value payments.
T03Order to CashMedium automation
Machines run itJudgment stays yours
Runs itselfBilling, cash application, risk-based collections, deduction research with proof assembled.
Stays yoursCredit limit overrides, settlements, strategic customer calls.
T04Treasury and CashMedium automation
Machines run itJudgment stays yours
Runs itselfLive cash positioning, rolling cash forecasts, policy-compliant sweeps, documented hedge proposals.
Stays yoursHedging strategy, funding decisions, counterparty changes.
T05FP&AMedium automation
Machines run itJudgment stays yours
Runs itselfData refresh, driver-based reforecasting, variance decomposition, scenarios, first-draft narratives.
Stays yoursTargets, resource allocation trade-offs, business partnering.
T06TaxHigh automation
Machines run itJudgment stays yours
Runs itselfDetermination checks on every transaction, filings from governed data, e-invoicing mandates, a live provision.
Stays yoursUncertain positions, authority interactions, structuring.
T07Risk and ControlsHigh automation
Machines run itJudgment stays yours
Runs itselfControls testing on the full transaction population, anomaly and fraud flagging, evidence pre-built.
Stays yoursControl design, risk appetite, investigation conclusions.
T08Payroll and ExpensesHigh automation
Machines run itJudgment stays yours
Runs itselfExpense audit at full coverage, policy checks, payroll validation and anomaly detection.
Stays yoursException adjudication, sensitive employee matters.
Machines run itHuman gateJudgment stays yours

Automation levels are directional. High means most of the tower’s transactional effort runs itself; Medium means machines carry the volume with more human touchpoints along the way. Every level is baselined on your own operations, and autonomy is metered up only as each assembly proves out.

The finance office, layered

One twin. Ten operating clusters.

Five clusters plan and forecast the business; five control and steer it. All ten run on the same live twin, each as a pre-wired assembly of workers, agents and APIs, commissioned rather than built. Hover any cluster to see what it runs.

How the FIN grid opens finance

A grid is not one thing.
It’s the whole function, layered.

This is what separates a grid from a solution. Finance opens into clusters, each cluster into running assemblies, each assembly composed of the workers, agents and APIs that do the work.

Tier 01

Operational clusters

Ten operating areas. Every part of the function has a home on the twin.the domain, grouped
Revenue & Demand Sensing Driver-Based Planning Forecasting Budgeting & Targets Capital Allocation Spend & Cost Control Continuous Close Consolidation & Reporting Controls & Compliance Decision Support
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↓ each cluster runs as ↓
Tier 02

Assemblies

Complete functions that run end to end, governed at every step.25 running functions
Demand & Churn Sensing Driver Intelligence Rolling Plan Production Rolling Forecast Cash Forecast Target Setting & Reconciliation Allocation Portfolio Ranking Spend Authorisation Post-Investment Review Commitment Control Invoice Compliance +13 more
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↓ each assembly composed of ↓
Tier 03

Workers · Agents · APIs

Workers own the process, agents reason and decide, APIs feed real-time context.13 workers · 20 agents · 31 APIs
Digital workers own the process Agents reason and decide APIs invoke real-time context
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Autonomy a regulated CFO can ship

The trace is the decision.

Causal and deterministic

Critical finance actions follow your policy rules in order, not a probabilistic guess. A controller, auditor or regulator can open the chain and see exactly why, down to the source record.

Humans on the gates

Four categories of decision stay with people by design: fiduciary sign-off, risk acceptance, resource allocation and relationship judgment. Each arrives armed with resolved context and a replayable evidence chain.

Proven beyond finance

The same reasoning substrate is formalized in peer-reviewed research for aerospace competency management and runs tier-one banking operations.

Built for scrutiny

Certified to SOC 2 and ISO 27001, with an independent bias audit, and built for the transparency that regimes such as the EU AI Act now require.

The path to value

Prove it in weeks. Scale it in quarters.

Autonomy is earned, not switched on. The grid goes live observe-first, so lineage builds trust before anything is granted execution authority, and autonomy is metered up as replayed decisions prove out.

Phase 01 · ProveWeeks 6–16

Stand up the twin

Connect the context layer to your ledger, planning and banking data. Activate Forecasting and Continuous Close in observe-first mode and let the evidence chain earn the room's trust.

Phase 02 · ScaleWeeks 16–36

Grant authority, assembly by assembly

Extend to Planning, Budgeting, Capital Allocation and Spend Control across the business, with finance in the loop at every gate throughout.

Phase 03 · OperateWeek 36 onward

Run the grid

All ten assemblies live across the enterprise, with governed autonomy, controls and SOX intact, and the finance operating model re-cut around exceptions and judgment rather than transaction production.

What the CFO gets

Outcomes, not dashboards.

Forecasts that never go stale

Revenue, cost and cash drivers scored continuously, so the plan moves with the business instead of the planning cycle, and every reforecast arrives with its assumptions explained.

Risk caught before it leaks

Every commitment, invoice line and approval checked against contract and policy in context, so leakage is stopped and recovered before it becomes material.

A close you can trust on day one

Accruals, reconciliations and intercompany monitored continuously, so month-end becomes a review, not a production sprint, with every number connected, explained and auditable.

Close cycle
5–10 days → 2–3, moving toward continuous
Forecast cycle
Weeks → hours, re-run on every trigger
Touchless invoices
20–40% typical → 80%+
Controls coverage
Sample-based → 100% of transactions
Days sales outstanding
Baseline → 15–30% lower
Audit evidence
Weeks of retrieval → pre-assembled chains

Steady-state targets from finance transformation benchmarks, re-based against your own numbers during the proof of value.

Autonomy you can audit. Routine work runs itself; a person stays on every decision that carries real cost or risk; and the split between the two stays visible end to end.

See the finance grid

Walk your finance office’s hardest cycle.

On your ledger, your plans, your close, as the use case. Not a generic demo.