Customer Story / Figment

How Figment cut forecast variance and found immediate value with Cube.

Figment's VP of Strategic Finance needed budgeting and forecasting across many dimensions, made easy. With Cube, forecast variance fell from 15-20% to 2-3%.

Cube is the AI-powered financial intelligence platform that connects bi-directionally to Excel and Google Sheets, giving finance teams trusted, decision-ready data without leaving their spreadsheets.

2-3%

Forecast variance,
down from 15-20%

<1 day

To train a new employee

3 weeks

To set up, no consultants

The situation

A blockchain leader that needed planning across many dimensions

Figment is the world's leading provider of blockchain infrastructure, with a comprehensive staking solution spanning rewards optimization, reporting, partner integrations, and slashing protection.

Its new VP of Strategic Finance needed to budget, forecast, and report against multiple dimensions, and needed it to be easy, trusted, and flexible.

The tools he evaluated promised power but came with friction: long ramp-up, heavy training, and the expectation of outside consultants to get going.

Company

Figment (blockchain infrastructure)

Industry & Size

Software, under 300 employees

Stack

Netsuite + Excel

Finance lead

Ryan Fanter, VP of Strategic Finance

The pain

Forecasts that missed, and tools that fought back

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Forecasts ran 15-20% off actuals

Wide variance between forecast and actuals made it hard to plan and report against the numbers with confidence.

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Other tools took a month to learn

Solutions Figment evaluated required over a month of training per new employee before anyone was productive.

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Consultants just to get started

Multi-dimensional budgeting and reporting often meant paying outside consultants before seeing any value.

How cube fixes this

Immediate value, accurate forecasts, none of the friction

Figment chose Cube for its simplicity over every other tool evaluated. It set up in three weeks, on the NetSuite and Excel stack the team already trusted.

Trace to truth

Forecast variance fell from 15-20% to 2-3%.

With Cube connected directly to NetSuite and built on trace-to-transaction trust, Figment's forecasts now land within 2-3% of actuals, down from 15-20%.

Accurate numbers became a foundation the team could plan on.

Sales dashboard showing year-to-date metrics, including sales, quantity, price, budget vs actuals, monthly trends, and forecast comparisons.

Patented bi-directional connectivity

Trained in under a day, not over a month.

Cube's Excel-like simplicity and patented bi-directional spreadsheet connectivity meant new employees ramped in less than a day, versus over a month elsewhere.

Figment got going with no consultants required.

Sales dashboard showing year-to-date metrics, including sales, quantity, price, budget vs actuals, monthly trends, and forecast comparisons.

Multi-dimensional planning

Budget and report across every dimension.

Budgeting, forecasting, and reporting against multiple dimensions are now easy, reliable, and flexible, with drill-down into the detail behind every figure.

The team can build out far more detailed reporting.

Sales dashboard showing year-to-date metrics, including sales, quantity, price, budget vs actuals, monthly trends, and forecast comparisons.

How it works

From friction to immediate value

1

Integrate Netsuite
Cube connects directly to NetSuite, so accurate data flows in without manual rework.

2

Ramp in a day
Excel-like simplicity gets new team members productive in under a day, no consultants.

3

Plan in dimensions
Budget, forecast, and report across multiple dimensions with reliable, drillable detail.

The Results

Sharper forecasts, faster ramp, immediate value

2-3%

Forecast variance, from 15-20%

<1 day

To train a new employee

3 weeks

To set up, no consultants

0

Consultants hired

"Forecasts went from 15-20% variance from actuals to 2-3% since using Cube, and training a new employee takes less than a day"
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Ryan Fanter

VP of Strategic Finance, Figment

Questions buyers asks

Cube for forecast accuracy and fast ramp: common questions

Figment's forecasts went from 15-20% variance against actuals to just 2-3% after adopting Cube. That tighter accuracy gave the strategic finance team far more reliable numbers to plan and report against.
At Figment, training a new employee on Cube takes less than one day, compared to over a month with other solutions the team evaluated. VP of Strategic Finance Ryan Fanter pointed to that ease of use as the biggest reason he chose Cube.
No. Figment set up Cube in about three weeks without hiring consultants. Cube delivered immediate value with none of the friction Figment expected from heavier tools.
Yes. Figment needed to budget, forecast, and report against multiple dimensions, and Cube made that easy, reliable, and flexible. The team can also drill down into detail and build out more granular reporting.
Yes. Figment connected Cube directly to NetSuite, so financial data flows in without manual rework. Cube also works with the Excel and Google Sheets finance teams already use through patented bi-directional spreadsheet connectivity.

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