Webinar
Date & Time
Thursday, July 23, 2026
EDT: 2:00 PM | PDT: 11:00 AM
Duration
45 minutes
Every finance team is bringing AI into budget season. Almost none of them can trust what it gives back. AI can be 80% right, and in finance that's 100% wrong. This webinar covers the tactics that make a budget hold up all year, then shows how Cube runs your planning cycle with autonomous FP&Agents on clean, decision-ready data. Whether you're an analyst building the model or a CFO defending it to the board, you'll leave with tips you can use on your next cycle. We'll cover:
Budget Fundamentals That Hold Up All Year
The practical habits that separate a budget people actually use from one that's stale by Q2. Setting driver-based assumptions, building in scenario room, and keeping ownership with the department heads who spend the money. The fundamentals matter more than ever now, because AI built on a shaky budget just gets you to the wrong answer faster.
Zero-Based vs. Prepopulated: Pick the Right Approach
Two ways to start a budget, two very different outcomes. We'll break down when to build from zero and justify every line, when to prepopulate from prior actuals and adjust, and how to run a hybrid that gets you the rigor of zero-based without the three-month slog.
Set Up Your Budget on a Layer Your AI Can Trust
See how Cube's Workflows, Planning Inputs, and Web Templates turn budget setup from a spreadsheet scramble into a structured, repeatable process. Push templates out to every department head, collect inputs in the tools they already work in, and pull it all back into one clean, decision-ready layer that's ready for both your team and every AI tool they use.
Run the Cycle with FP&Agents
Watch the agents do the heavy lifting. The Planner Agent builds forward-looking models from natural language, Smart Forecast turns historical patterns into a defensible baseline, and Smart Variance explains what moved and why, before anyone asks. This is what budget season looks like when the manual work runs itself.
Extend Your Budget to Your Whole AI Stack
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini to your budget data through the Cube MCP Server in under two minutes. Every stakeholder queries the same clean numbers, and every answer traces back to the transaction. No code. No consultants. No IT lift.
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