For consultants, finance specialists & accelerator teams

Your expertise.
A working
solution.

Build planning and analysis solutions around the way you work. Combine a reusable business model with your own AI skills. Demonstrate it, adapt it, and deliver it.

Free & open sourceMIT LicenseSelf-hosted
Development pilot · Explore with us
What your expertise could becomeIllustrative example
Working capital accelerator SAMPLE DATA

One business question

Can we take the order
and protect our cash?

Entity: NorthScenario: New orderView: Weekly cash

Week 6 · current terms

£34k

Week 6 · with deposit

£61k

Illustrative cash forecast Sample cash starts at 82 thousand pounds. By week six, current terms leave 34 thousand pounds and a customer deposit leaves 61 thousand pounds. These are illustrative scenarios, not a live calculation. Week 1 Week 3 Week 6
With customer depositCurrent terms
Assumption Current Proposed
Customer deposit 0% 30%
Supplier payment 30 days 30 days
Your skill. Your advisory approach.

Ask about terms → check assumptions → compare scenarios → guide the decision.

Business model + expert working methodBuilt on Open EPM

You know the problem. Build the solution.

For the people who
can make it happen.

You bring the business knowledge and the ability to move an idea forward. Open EPM gives you an open foundation for turning it into something people can use.

Independent specialists

Make your expertise
a repeatable offering.

For fractional CFOs, accountants and industry consultants. Turn your established model and advisory method into a solution you can adapt for each client.

An opportunity to build an ongoing advisory service.

Consulting practices

Bring an accelerator
to the first conversation.

For practice leaders and delivery teams. Prepare an industry model, demonstrate a realistic business case, and start a pilot before a larger platform commitment.

A tangible starting point for winning and delivering work.

Business & innovation teams

Prove the idea.
Build the business case.

For finance leads, model builders and internal sponsors. Start with one planning problem, make assumptions visible, and test the approach with your team.

A working model to inform the next investment decision.

Start with a decision that matters

A useful outcome.
A reason to get started.

Your client needs a clearer decision. Build a model and a guided way of working around that decision.

Explore a solution you could build
For working-capital advisers & fractional CFOs

Help a growing business see the cash consequences.

Connect sales, inventory, payment terms and cash. Give an owner a way to compare the choices behind their growth plan.

YOUR STARTING POINT
A cash forecast or an established working-capital method.
YOUR OPPORTUNITY
A pilot that can develop into a recurring forecasting service.

The client conversation

“Can we fund this order without stretching the business?”

01

Your model

Cash, receivables, stock and supplier payments by period and scenario.

02

Your AI skill

Ask for missing assumptions, compare terms and explain cash pressure.

03

The decision

Which commercial terms make the order workable?

For agency & professional-services specialists

Turn project numbers into better pricing decisions.

Bring revenue, staffing, delivery costs and overhead assumptions into one model. Compare projects and see where margin changes.

YOUR STARTING POINT
A project profitability workbook or an industry pricing method.
YOUR OPPORTUNITY
A focused advisory solution for similar firms in your sector.

The client conversation

“Which projects are worth more of our team’s time?”

01

Your model

Revenue, hours and costs by client, project, role and period.

02

Your AI skill

Challenge utilization and allocation assumptions; compare pricing options.

03

The decision

Where should the team change its pricing or delivery approach?

For finance, operations & accelerator teams

Make the next hiring decision a shared plan.

Connect demand, available capacity, hiring timing and costs. Let stakeholders explore the assumptions behind an expansion.

YOUR STARTING POINT
A staffing plan or a repeatable capacity-planning framework.
YOUR OPPORTUNITY
An internal pilot or a planning accelerator for client engagements.

The client conversation

“Who should we hire, and when can we afford it?”

01

Your model

Demand, headcount and costs by team, role, period and scenario.

02

Your AI skill

Gather team assumptions and compare hiring dates and demand cases.

03

The decision

Which staffing plan balances capacity and affordability?

Illustrative solution ideas, not prebuilt templates. You define and validate the business logic for your application.

What makes the opportunity possible

Your intelligence.
An open foundation.

Open EPM is a programmable multidimensional platform. You shape the model and your agent’s working method; the server governs how operations run.

You shape the intelligence

Your AI client. Your skills.

Use a compatible AI client. Add your questions, industry knowledge, checks and workflows to guide how it works with your business model.

Business expertiseSkills & add-insYour choice of AI

Open EPM governs execution

Your model. Shared controls.

Build dimensions, data, calculations and workflows. Browser and MCP operations use shared authorization, validation and execution contracts.

Multidimensional modelsCalculationsPermissions

A coherent MCP interface

Discover and work with authorized application capabilities from your client.

Build guided workflows around your own way of solving the problem.

Business meaning, made explicit

Give model objects names, descriptions and semantic context.

Help another person or agent understand the model you have built.

Governed operations

The server checks authority, validates operations and controls publication.

Keep the AI client’s flexibility grounded in inspectable rules and controls.

Free, open-source software

MIT-licensed source you can inspect, self-host, customize and extend.

Put your investment into the business solution, with no Open EPM licence fee.

Explore the platform and MCP documentation

From an idea to a client conversation

Start small.
Make the value visible.

An existing spreadsheet, a recurring client question or an industry method can be the starting point.

01 / DEFINE

Choose one problem.

Name the decision, the person who makes it and what a useful answer would look like.

02 / BUILD

Make it work.

Model the business logic. Add semantic context and your agent skills. Check the expected results.

03 / DEMONSTRATE

Show the outcome.

Use a realistic example to explore assumptions with a prospect or your internal sponsor.

04 / ADAPT

Deliver the pilot.

Fit the model to the business, validate it together and decide what deserves a wider rollout.

Keep the platform choice open.

Your accelerator can become a reference implementation: explicit definitions, agreed calculations and expected results.

Continue on Open EPM

Develop the application and your advisory service as the solution proves useful.

Inform a later implementation

Use the proven model to guide another platform. Migration needs target-specific mapping and validation.

Before you start

A few practical
questions.

Is Open EPM free to use commercially?

The application source is MIT-licensed. There is no Open EPM software licence fee. Your hosting, chosen AI client, implementation and support have their own costs.

Can I build my own skills or accelerator?

Yes. Combine your application model with skills and workflows in a compatible MCP client. You supply the business method and validate its results. The examples on this page are ideas for what you could build, not a catalogue of ready-made templates.

Do I need to be a developer?

Business modeling knowledge is the useful starting point. A capable MCP client can assist with authoring and operation. Self-hosting and custom development still need technical support; you can work with a specialist or start by discussing a pilot.

Can I try it before a wider commitment?

Open EPM is in development pilot. Discuss your use case to explore access and a suitable first exercise, or inspect the documentation and public source. Pilot access is arranged individually.

Bring a problem you know how to solve

What could your expertise
make possible?

Tell us who you help, the decision you want to improve, and the model or method you already use. Start the conversation with one concrete use case.

For independent specialists, consulting practices and internal accelerator teams.