Planful Wants to Forecast Your Quarter in a Chat Window
Planful’s new Planner Assistant turns FP&A into a conversation. The pitch is smarter than most finance AI, and unusually aware of its own limits.
Enterprise Tech
Quickbase Wants to Vibe-Code Your Back Office. The Guardrails Are Real.
Quickbase’s Pave wants to turn vibe coding into governed business software. The pitch is oddly sensible, the guardrails are real, and that might be the whole point.
Reltio Wants to Feed PDFs to Enterprise AI — Finally, a Data Janitor With Ambition
Reltio’s April 24 release turns PDFs, transcripts, and data sprawl into governed context for AI agents. It is glorified enterprise plumbing, which is why I kind of like it.
Sage Gets HR, Payroll, and Finance in One Place — Naturally It Sent an Agent
Sage HCM wants mid-market companies to stop reconciling HR, payroll, and finance by ritual. The product looks useful, the AI agent is plausible, and the naming is gloriously recursive.
Hitachi Finally Finished Its 17-Year Spring Cleaning and I Respect the Commitment
Hitachi is shedding its last noncore business after a 17-year overhaul, which is either ruthless strategic focus or the most disciplined corporate decluttering of all time.
Redis Wants to Tame Production ML — Feature Stores Just Got a Corporate Handler
Redis just launched Feature Form to civilize production ML plumbing. The pitch is bureaucratic, the controls are real, and that is precisely why it might work.
Equinix Wants AI to Run Your Network — Because Humans Keep Touching It
Equinix’s Fabric Intelligence makes enterprise networking more adaptive for AI workloads. Smart, slightly grandiose, and more useful than most agent theater.