Management control for manufacturing SMEs

AI in the service of management control, all the way to EBIT

From actuals to budget: margins by business line, real data extracted directly from your ERP ledgers, variances always under control. The AI that helps your company make the best decisions, with people always in control.

Always under control Audit-ready EU AI Act ready Enterprise-grade governance

The problem

Manufacturing SMEs fly blind on their margins.

Opaque margins

The statutory income statement says nothing about business lines: how is the margin actually generated?

Budgets on Excel sheets

Fragile scenarios, rebuilt by hand every year, with no link to real costs and no traceability of assumptions.

Numbers that arrive late

Year-end actuals come in months later, once the decision has already been made. The variance surfaces too late.

What it does

Two modules, one flow.

Year-end analysis (ex-post)

Reclassifies the income statement by contribution margin:
it shows how the operating result is generated, down to gross margin and EBIT.

Planning & monitoring (forward)

Load your ERP data with assisted classification, build the budget, monitor variances and reforecast with AI support that is always verified.

How it works

From onboarding to dashboard in four steps.

1

Onboarding

We analyse your business and set the app up around your operational needs.

2

Load your ledgers

Export your issued and received invoices from your ERP. Upload them: nothing to re-enter.

3

Review and approve

The AI classifies revenue and costs with a confidence level that you review and approve before it flows into the forward accounts.

4

Budget and variances

Numbers, budget, variances and reforecast in a single dashboard, with AI commentary verified against real data.

Why it's different

Concrete added value for the company.

Traceable, explained AI — not a black box

Every AI action is verified and checked to catch and correct any hallucinations. Classifications are approved by the company decision-maker. Everything is logged and audit-ready.

Onboarding as diagnosis

We help you see your company by margin line before you even make a forecast.
Value that stays, whatever software you use.

Works with your ERP

We import the numbers from your system with purpose-built adapters that produce secure, verifiable data extractions.

An ally for accountants and advisors

Our app adds analytical capability at the level of your operating result, complementing the financial and tax advice provided by accountants and consultants.

Governance

Built on PONDUS-AI.

ECONOVA-AI's governance framework for AI in finance — agile and proportionate. Trust in the numbers is the real difference.

Traceability

Every AI call is logged, with an audit trail of approvals: every number can be reconstructed.

Explainability

Numerical claims are verified against the input data; unverified ones are flagged.

Human-in-the-loop

The final decision is always human; AI speeds up the work, it doesn't replace it.

Published, citable framework: PONDUS-AI, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21307392. Approach proportionate to the EU AI Act.

For consultants

Management control across your whole portfolio.

Uses your chart of accounts

You know the business and can shape the proposed cost-of-goods-sold reclassification for your chart of accounts.

Fast onboarding

Taxonomy from cost centers, pre-loaded classification rules: a client ready in a day, not a month.

Offer more value

Turn year-end actuals into margin analysis and budgeting: a value-added service for your manufacturing clients.

Want to see it on your own numbers?

We'll run a demo on your company's data (or a client's) and show you margin by business line and the budget in just a few minutes.

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