Planning, consolidation and close in the system that owns the ledger, with agents drafting the cycle instead of coordinating it across two platforms.
Short answer: Aurakore is an AI-native ERP whose finance module plans, consolidates and reports on its own live ledger. Planful is a CPM platform layered over your existing ERP, with structured planning, consolidation and close cycles. It is the stronger fit if that ERP is staying, and the weaker one if the layering is the problem.
| Capability | Aurakore | Planful |
|---|---|---|
| Book of record (general ledger & chart of accounts) | Yes: the ledger itself | No: plans over data from your ERP |
| Data source | Live shared ledger and CRM pipeline | Loaded from your ERP on a schedule |
| Who builds the analysis | Agents draft it; humans approve before anything posts | Your team builds and maintains the models |
| Close cycle | Runs on the same ledger being planned against | Coordinated across systems it does not own |
| Multi-entity consolidation & eliminations | Yes: native, with FX translation | Consolidation and close modules |
| Statements (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow) | Yes: per GAAP/IFRS, each figure traceable to its ledger account | Planning output; statutory reporting stays in your ERP |
| Technical accounting (ASC 606, ASC 842, fixed assets) | Yes: native to the ledger | No: handled in your ERP |
| Tax provision (ASC 740) | Yes: native | No: not offered |
| Audit / assurance workspace | Yes: native workspace | Workflow approvals and audit trail |
| Budgeting & variance analysis | Native, against the ledger it measures | Core strength |
| Workforce & operational planning | No: finance planning only | Yes: dedicated modules |
| Unified ERP breadth (CRM + finance + legal + HR) | Yes: one platform, one assistant | No: planning and close |
Comparison reflects Aurakore's positioning and generally reported characteristics of Planful; a point-in-time reading. Planful is a trademark of Planful, Inc.; Aurakore is not affiliated with Planful.
Planful is a mature CPM suite with workforce and operational planning modules alongside finance, designed to sit over an ERP estate you are not replacing. Aurakore plans finance only. If you need structured planning across departments while keeping your current ERP, Planful leads.
If replacing the ERP is on the table, the layering problem disappears: planning, consolidation, close, revenue recognition, tax and CRM run on one ledger. There is no load schedule, no reconciliation between the plan and the books, and no second system to keep in step.
Aurakore has no spreadsheet add-in and no general-purpose multi-dimensional modelling engine. There are no workforce, supply-chain or sales-territory planning models. Its planning is finance planning: budgets and variance, cash and liquidity forecasting, burn and runway scenarios, and unit economics, run by agents on the ledger. The capabilities above are built and available today, but Aurakore's finance module is newly shipped. It has not been through the years of production hardening behind an established platform's equivalent.
The budget and the books are the same data, so variance is a query rather than a reconciliation.
Budget versus actuals, cash-flow forecasts and scenarios are drafted continuously, not assembled monthly.
Intercompany eliminations and FX translation on the same ledger you plan against.
One platform for FP&A, accounting, tax, CRM and legal.
Aurakore. It runs planning, consolidation and close inside an AI-native ERP, so the plan and the ledger are the same system rather than a CPM platform loaded from one.
To stop maintaining a planning layer and its data loads on top of an ERP, and to have budgets, actuals and the close live in one place.
Yes. Intercompany transactions, elimination entries and FX translation to each entity's functional currency run on the same ledger, with the consolidation run reversible and auditable.