Discover the newest AI applications from BrightAnalytics

At BrightAnalytics, we integrate advanced AI directly into our platform to save CFOs and controllers time and effort. We’ve made great progress with our Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities recently and have even more innovations on the way to help elevate your business. Discover how these new features can transform your financial operations and give you sharper, more precise insights.

1. Automatic Mapping – Live since June 2024

Manually mapping GL accounts to your financial statements in BrightAnalytics can take a lot of time and effort. To solve this, our AI mapping tool offers automatic suggestions that significantly cut down on manual work, leaving you to simply review and approve the results. Plus, our AI model automatically retrains itself over time, meaning it constantly learns from your previous actions to deliver even smarter, more accurate suggestions.

2. AI translator – Released June 2025

Our AI translator automatically translates labels, structures, widgets and ratios into the desired language. This means that manual translations by you or your team are no longer necessary. This feature is a true game changer for international companies with branches in multiple countries, allowing you to effortlessly generate consistent reports in any language. 

3. IC-Matching – Released August 2025

For companies dealing with intercompany transactions, controllers and CFOs know exactly how time-consuming the matching process can be. Linking sales invoices to purchase invoices or matching loans with receivables across different entities is often complex and usually requires manual fixes.

We’re using AI to automate the bulk of this matching process, drastically cutting down the hours spent on manual reconciliation. By analyzing a wide range of details like descriptions and currencies, our AI model finds the best matches and automatically resolves discrepancies, making your entire workflow much simpler and more efficient.

4. General ledger AI translation – Live since August 2025

Our General Ledger AI translation standardizes GL account descriptions into English, creating a uniform overview that anyone can understand. This is especially useful for international companies operating in multiple languages. It allows a CFO to immediately understand what each GL account means, regardless of the original language or abbreviation used.

5. AI Controller – Anomaly Detection – Live since August 2025

This development is a major step forward for financial reporting, designed specifically to optimize your monthly closing process. Our AI controller helps you spot discrepancies in financial data faster by comparing current reports with previous periods. The AI flags irregularities and performs checks in advance, allowing you to take immediate action when necessary.

For example, our customer Cortes discovered a hidden water leak after BrightAnalytics flagged an unusual spike in utility costs compared to previous months. These are exactly the kinds of valuable insights our AI controller is built to uncover. Moving forward, we plan to expand these capabilities so the tool can handle increasingly complex analysis, making your control and reporting tasks even more efficient.

6. AI Insights Agents & Chat – Live since June 2026

We are evolving our side panel from static buttons into an interactive, conversational chat. Instead of relying on generic data summaries, you can choose from a library of pre-built financial agents that are trained for specific analytical tasks. For example, a reforecast advisor monitors how closely budgets align with actuals , while a slow-bleed agent detects gradually increasing costs that put pressure on your margins.

You can ask open-ended questions in plain language to get an instant analysis of your active view , or easily save your own custom prompts to build tailored assistants that run with a single click. 

7. Drilldown Agent for Close Management – Beta Live since June 2026

As part of our upcoming Close Management module , the Drilldown Agent is designed to optimize your month-end closing process. While standard agents are limited to high-level view data , this tool goes a step further by actively investigating unexpected balances down to individual transaction postings. The agent automatically navigates from high-level financial flux straight to your ledger lines, uncovering root causes like missing provisions or data entry errors so you can take immediate action. Plus, as you update statuses and leave comments, the AI continuously learns your unique closing process to deliver increasingly accurate analysis every month. 

8. Plug-and-Play MCP Server: Live since June 2026

Connect tools like OpenAI or Claude directly to our trusted financial data foundation through a single, seamless connection. Because it plugs directly into the core BrightAnalytics engine, all complex platform logic (including currency translations and intercompany eliminations) is processed natively. This ensures your external AI models instantly execute complex tasks, empowering teams to cross-analyze turnover across dimensions, merge live metrics with outside data, or automatically draft formatted business documents.

AI-Powered Efficiency for CFOs & CEOs: Connect with Us

Our goal is to save CFOs and CEOs time by making daily control and reporting tasks much more efficient. We’re continuously investing in innovation and look forward to bringing you even more AI features down the road. If you have any questions or want to discuss an interesting business case, we’d love to connect.

  • Who is BrightAnalytics?

    BrightAnalytics is a growing technology company. Our goal is to help companies streamline their management reporting processes.

  • What is BrightAnalytics?

    BrightAnalytics is the most intuitive, reliable and fast management reporting platform that covers all needs on management reporting and consolidation.

  • How does BrightAnalytics work?
    1. Connect: BrightAnalytics connects with accounting, ERP and CRM systems, and centralises all data in the BrightAnalytics platform.
    2. Report: The standard templates in BrightAnalytics are immediately ready for use, but can be fully tailored to suit one’s needs.
    3. Analyse: The management reports and dashboards offer a wealth of information and immediately provide clear insight into the figures of the entire organisation.
    4. Engage: The clear reports contribute to a better streamlined business strategy and execution, and ensure transparency within the company.

  • How do I connect BrightAnalytics to my package?

    With our BrightSync we connect to more than 400 data sources. One of the biggest USP’s of the solution is our possibility to connect with every system.