The rigour of a central finance database without the spreadsheets, and the ledger those numbers come from in the same system.
Short answer: Aurakore runs FP&A inside an AI-native ERP: budgets, variance, forecasts and scenarios are drafted by agents on its own live ledger. Vena keeps Excel as the front end over a central planning database, the better choice if your process is your spreadsheet templates, but it plans over an ERP rather than being one.
| Capability | Aurakore | Vena |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Imported from your ERP and other systems |
| Interface | Browser, chat and API, with CSV and XLSX export | Excel-native, with Microsoft 365 and Power BI |
| Excel add-in | No: no add-in; export instead | Yes: the add-in is the product |
| Who builds the analysis | Agents draft it; humans approve before anything posts | Your team builds and maintains the models |
| Budgeting & variance analysis | Native, against the ledger it measures | Core strength |
| 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 |
| Multi-entity consolidation & eliminations | Yes: native, with FX translation | Consolidation and close modules |
| Audit / assurance workspace | Yes: native workspace | Workflow approvals and audit trail |
| Grounding | Every figure cites the ledger account it came from | Cell-level lineage back to the imported source |
| Unified ERP breadth (CRM + finance + legal + HR) | Yes: one platform, one assistant | No: FP&A and close |
Comparison reflects Aurakore's positioning and generally reported characteristics of Vena; a point-in-time reading. Vena is a trademark of Vena Solutions Inc.; Aurakore is not affiliated with Vena.
Vena's premise is that finance already works in Excel and should keep doing so, with a governed database behind it. If your models are years of accumulated spreadsheet logic, your team is fluent in Excel, and Microsoft 365 and Power BI are the reporting stack, that is a real advantage; Aurakore has no Excel add-in and does not try to be one.
If the spreadsheets are the problem rather than the asset, stale the moment they are refreshed and owned by whoever built them, Aurakore removes both the export step and the second system. Ask a question in plain language and the answer is built from the live ledger and pipeline, with every figure traceable to the account behind it.
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.
Nothing is imported, so nothing is stale; the forecast moves when the ledger does.
Ask in plain language and get the analysis, built from real data with the working shown.
Every number cites its ledger account, so review is checking sources rather than hunting formulas.
Close, consolidation and technical accounting are in the same platform as the plan.
Aurakore. Instead of putting Excel over a central database, it runs FP&A agents inside an AI-native ERP, so budgets, variance and forecasts are built on its own live ledger with no import step.
To get out of spreadsheet maintenance altogether, and to stop planning on data that is only current as of the last refresh from your ERP.
Aurakore has no Excel add-in; the interface is the browser, chat and API, and reports export to CSV or XLSX. If Excel must remain your working surface, Vena is the better fit.