Why ClockworkBuilt by a CFONo implementation

Reporting tools tell you what happened. Clockwork tells you what happens next.

Most finance software tidies up last month and hands you a report. Clockwork builds the next 52 weeks from your books, and the reporting comes with it.

Free 14-day trial. No credit card. Works with QuickBooks, Xero, and Excel.

DashboardOctober · live
Synced to QuickBooksHealth score 82
Cash today
$412,800
Lowest point ahead: $231K in week 14
Revenue this month
$326K
+11% vs last month
Gross margin
54%
Below your 58% floor
ActualForecastMinimum cash floor
Today Week 14: $231K, above the floor 12 weeks agoWeek 26Week 52
Sound familiar?

The problem is not your bookkeeping. It is what happens after.

Your books are fine. The gap is between closing them and knowing what to do next.

Reports that arrive too late

By the time the monthly package lands, the cash dip, the overspend, and the slow week have already happened. You are reading history.

Spreadsheets that break

The forecast lives in a workbook one person understands. A formula slips, a tab gets stale, and nobody trusts the number in the meeting.

Tools that need a project to set up

Mapping a chart of accounts, filling templates, and sitting through implementation calls before you get a single answer.

Clockwork is built forecast-first, and the reporting comes out of the forecast.

See the difference
What is different

Six things we do on purpose.

Each one came from a question a real owner or firm asked us that the tools we tried could not answer.

Forecasting is the core product

Most FP&A tools are reporting platforms with a forecast bolted on later. Clockwork is built on a live three-statement model that runs forward, so every number on the dashboard is already a forecast.

Weekly cash, on a real balance sheet

Clockwork carries receivables and payables forward on their own timing, week by week, on a full balance sheet. A monthly cash view can't show you that.

Mira does the assembly, you do the judgment

Mira drafts the variance commentary from the live ledger, and every figure traces back to the transaction behind it. You review the analysis instead of building it.

Nothing to build before you get an answer

Connect QuickBooks, Xero, or Excel and the forecast, the dashboard, and the model build themselves.

Decisions you can test before you make them

The hire, the loan, the price change, the second location. Run it on your real numbers and see what it does to your bank balance before you commit.

Built by someone who ran the numbers for a living

We ran an outsourced CFO practice for hundreds of businesses before Clockwork. The product is that practice, turned into software.

Before and after

What changes when the forecast builds itself.

Spreadsheets and reporting tools
With Clockwork
What does next month look like?
Open the spreadsheet, update twelve tabs, hope the formulas held.
What does next month look like?
It is already on the dashboard, built from the books, current as of this morning.
Can we afford this hire?
Give me a few days to run the numbers.
Can we afford this hire?
Model it in the meeting on live numbers and answer on the spot.
Why is margin down?
Pull the ledger, export to Excel, trace it by hand.
Why is margin down?
Ask Mira. She points at the three invoices that moved it.
Will we make payroll on the 15th?
A monthly cash view says roughly yes. Roughly.
Will we make payroll on the 15th?
A weekly forecast on a real balance sheet says yes, with $26K to spare.
Getting started
Two months of implementation before the first useful report.
Getting started
Connect your books. Your first forecast is ready in about five minutes.
Side by side

Clockwork next to what most businesses use today.

Spreadsheets
Reporting platforms
Clockwork
Forecast horizon
Spreadsheets:Whatever you build
Reporting platforms:Monthly, if at all
Clockwork:52 weeks of cash plus a 5-year model
Balance sheet in the forecast
Spreadsheets:Rarely
Reporting platforms:Yes, but monthly
Clockwork:Yes, weekly, with receivables and payables on their own timing
Setup
Spreadsheets:Weeks of building
Reporting platforms:Implementation project
Clockwork:Connect your books, about five minutes
Stays current
Spreadsheets:Only if someone updates it
Reporting platforms:Yes
Clockwork:Yes, every time the books change
Scenarios
Spreadsheets:Copy the workbook
Reporting platforms:Sometimes
Clockwork:Unlimited, on your real numbers
Analysis
Spreadsheets:You write it
Reporting platforms:You write it
Clockwork:Mira drafts it, traced to the transaction
Why owners and firms trust it

Built by a CFO who did this work by hand.

1,000+
users across businesses and accounting firms
4.9/5
on G2, rated Easiest to Use FP&A Software
91
NPS, in the top 1% of SaaS companies

Results reported by Clockwork customers.

Honest fit

We will tell you when we are not the answer.

Two cases where another tool is the safer call, and the one where Clockwork is. Our comparison pages name the alternatives.

01

A lender is reading the output

If a bank is tracking covenants off your reports, do that in a tool built for it and use Clockwork for the forecast behind it.

02

You bill for a bespoke driver model

If a client is paying your firm properly to build a one-off model with hundreds of custom drivers, there are deeper modeling tools for that single job.

03

Everything else

The recurring forecast, the weekly cash view, the model that stays current, and the analysis that explains it. That is what we do.

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See your forecast before your coffee gets cold.

Connect your books and Clockwork builds the model.