Every variance explained. Every overspend caught.
Every number tied to the ledger.
Tellius reads your ledger, your plan and the systems in between, ties the numbers out, finds the drivers, gets the owner’s answer and delivers the pack.
the pack, the bridge and the overspend call
you approve what goes out
Your ERP records it. Your plan predicts it.
Your work lives in spreadsheets, email threads and the week after close.
Every cycle the ledger, the plan, the open commitments and the contracts are reconciled again, and last month’s answers rarely carry over.
the pack arrives after the questions
answers for spend already committed
rebuilds the same bridge every cycle
chases breaks across files and inboxes
signs off on numbers nobody can open
01
01 · Field performance
Close is day one. The pack is day eight.
Actuals are tied out, then chased for explanations. The review has moved on by the time the pack is right.
of FP&A time goes to collecting and validating data. Only 31% goes to analysis and action.
FP&A Trends Survey 2025 · 459 finance professionalsCostThe time goes into preparation. The review opens on stale questions.
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02
02 · The revenue bridge
“$4.2M below forecast” is the easy part.
Splitting it into price, volume, mix and FX by SKU and customer, then getting sales to confirm it, is what eats the week.
CostCommercial decisions wait while the team rebuilds and confirms the bridge.
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03
03 · The owner’s answer
“Timing” comes back without a date.
Explanations arrive as a word, not a commitment. The same line is unfavorable again next month, with a better paragraph attached.
CostNext quarter’s forecast inherits an assumption nobody tested.
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04
04 · Spend against budget
Overspend gets explained after the money is spent.
Actuals, open POs and commitments sit in three systems. Nobody reads them together until the pack, when the only decision left is how to describe it.
CostOwners find the overrun once it is committed, and can only explain it.
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05
05 · What the contract says
The contract said one thing. The payment said another.
Chargebacks, rebates and deductions settle against terms nobody checks line by line. A recovery firm finds it a year later and bills a share.
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8.6%
of a contract’s value erodes between signature and delivery, on average. The best run near 3%, the worst above 20%.
WCC / Deloitte · contract value erosion researchCost A year of margin was wrong before anyone checked.
Tellius ties out the numbers and does the work.
From your ledger and plan
to a pack someone has signed.
Five steps, every close. Select one to see the work.
See it run
One margin leak. The whole recovery.
Traced to the part, the relief committed,
the brief ready before the review.
In the product · 1:33
“The same margin leak came back. What can still be recovered?”
A repeat variance traced to one part and one plant. Engineering and supply chain each commit relief against it, and the brief is ready before the review.
AI Workers for Finance Teams
Three workers. One commercial picture.
All three work from the same tied-out numbers.
Choose a worker to see the work it prepares.
Leadership
The packday 3September pack
23 variances · opens with August’s commitments
Every sentence to its rows
and to the person who explained it
Northeast OPEX · +$2.1M
headcount $1.4M structural · timing $0.7M, reverses Q4
Marketing · +$600K
$380K timing · $140K structural · $80K unresolved, chased twice
The questions the CFO will ask
answered underneath, with the rows
Ready for sign-off on day three, not day eight. Built in Excel and PowerPoint, rebuilt after late corrections. The head of FP&A signs off.
FP&A
The queueas the close landsVariance queue
23 material · 19 explained before review
Northeast OPEX · +$2.1M
six contractors added in August · structural
IT services · +$0.8M
vendor rates, three renewals above plan
SaaS timing · +$0.7M
an annual invoice · reverses in Q4
Revenue · −$4.2M
63% volume, 24% mix, 13% price · two accounts
Every material line ranked, with its explanation already drafted. Your team edits it before submitting; a reviewer approves it, or sends it back.
The budget owner
The questionday 2Northeast OPEX · +$1.4M headcount
to the NE budget owner
The evidence
six contractors added in August · no budget amendment · the rows attached
Structural. A headcount review before 15 October; the forecast moves +$1.4M for Q4.
reversal or review date
15 Oct
The flagged move, its evidence, a comment box and a date. That screen replaces the email chase. What is not answered is carried as unresolved, in those words.
Agent
Reconciliationevery closeTwo accounts did not tie. A new cost center carries no mapping to the plan, and an FX rate loaded a day late.
Both are cases, not commentary. The mapping is genuinely new; the FX rate re-ran the lines it touched.
A break case with its cause and the rows behind it, before anything is narrated
The controller clears each break
Agent
Sign-offat closeEvery reconciliation carries its preparer, its reviewer and the minute it was signed.
The pack does not publish with an open break. The gate holds whoever is waiting on it.
The sign-off trail, exportable, with each account’s evidence attached
The controller signs before it publishes
Procurement buys this same worker as P2P.
Agent
Exception triagedaily143 invoices did not match their purchase order or their receipt.
119 trace to the record underneath. A price change never applied, a receipt posted to the wrong line, a vendor billing an old rate.
Each exception with the record that is wrong and the correction proposed
The AP lead approves each correction
Agent
Duplicate and overpaymentmonthlyNine payments matched an earlier invoice on vendor, amount and date.
Four are duplicates. Five are split payments the contract allows, and that distinction is now a rule.
A recovery case with both payments and the contract line beside them
The AP lead approves the claim · nothing is filed by Tellius
Reads from the systems you run.
Ties out, explains, chases, delivers.Then waits for your sign-off.Tellius reads your ledger, your plan and the systems between them. Your team sets what runs and what needs approval.
Your rules decide what moves.
Written once. Applied the same way, every close.Set what runs, what needs approval and which decisions become rules across entities, cost centers and business units.
on your definitions and plan versions, every close
The replay
What did last month’s pack leave unexplained?
One business unit, read-only, thirty days.The pack
Day 8 → day 3
See the pack your team signed next to the one Tellius prepared, line by line.
The drivers
$2.1M → 2 drivers
See the largest overrun split into headcount and timing, with the rows behind each one.
The owners
31 → 27
See which explanations came back with a date, and which never came back at all.
Then put it next to the pack your team actually signed that month.
Same data, same month, read-only. Where Tellius and your team differ, see why.
Read-only for 30 days — nothing is written to your systems during the trial. Pricing follows the entities and cost centers covered, never the seat count.