Clockwork vs. Reach Reporting: custom reports or a real forecast
Reach Reporting is a reporting and dashboard platform with a spreadsheet workspace, and it added a basic forecasting feature to that. Clockwork is an intelligent forecasting platform built on its own computational models: a 5-year driver-based financial model and a 52-week cash flow forecast generated from the client's books, with reporting as an output. Clockwork can do what Reach does. Reach does not do most of what Clockwork does. If simple, customizable reports are all your firm needs, Reach is the better fit and Clockwork would be overkill.
The 30-second comparison
| Clockwork | Reach Reporting | |
|---|---|---|
| Core product | Intelligent forecasting platform with its own computational models, plus reporting | Reporting and dashboards with a spreadsheet workspace, plus basic planning |
| Financial model | ✓ 5-year, driver-based, three-statement, built automatically | ✓ Multi-year 3-way plan built by hand in a spreadsheet grid |
| Cash flow forecast | ✓ 52-week, transaction-level | ✕ Monthly, no weekly cash flow |
| Driver-based forecasting | ✓ Yes | ✕ Custom formulas, not driver-based |
| AI financial analyst | ✓ Mira, built in | ✓ AI insights on reports |
| Setup | ✓ Chart of accounts mapped automatically in minutes | ✓ Templates, mapping and formulas built by the firm |
| Scenarios | ✓ Unlimited | ✓ Budgets and forecasts with custom formulas |
| Custom formula workspace | Excel/CSV import, Google Sheets connection | ✓ Integrated spreadsheet with Excel-like formulas |
| Client portal and white label | ✓ White-label deliverables on Scale and up | ✓ Client portal included, white label add-on |
| Integrations | QuickBooks Online and Desktop, Xero, Excel/CSV, Google Sheets | QuickBooks Online and Desktop, Xero, Digits, Gusto, MYOB, CSV, Excel, Google Sheets |
| Pricing model | Priced on functionality and firm complexity, from $999/mo; one new advisory client covers it in under a month | Per company: $149/mo for 1, $290 for 10, $550 for 25 |
| Best for | Firms selling the forecast itself to every client | Firms that want to design reports formula by formula |
| Free trial | ✓ 14 days, no card | ✓ 30-day trial |
Competitor details and pricing checked September 2026 against public pages. Verify directly with each vendor. Clockwork's current rates are on the pricing page.
What Reach Reporting does well
Reach is a genuinely good reporting tool, particularly for firms that want control over layout and formulas. It describes itself as automated yet fully customizable self-service financial reporting, with dynamic dashboards and pre-built templates. The distinctive feature is the integrated spreadsheet experience with Excel-like formulas, which lets a firm build almost any report or metric without leaving the platform. Datasheets handle non-financial data, consolidation is automated with eliminations and multi-currency conversion, and a client portal supports sharing with unlimited clients.
On planning, Reach offers 3-way financial planning across P&L, balance sheet and cash flow, with forecasting algorithms, custom formulas and multi-year projections. In practice it is the most basic form of forecasting: a spreadsheet grid where the firm builds and maintains its own logic. It checks the box, and for a firm that wants to hand-build a simple plan inside its reporting tool, that may be enough. It is not a forecasting engine.
Where Clockwork differs
The forecast is a model, not formulas you maintain
Reach's planning runs on spreadsheet formulas the firm writes and maintains. Clockwork runs its own computational models. Connecting a client's QuickBooks or Xero produces a 5-year, driver-based, three-statement financial model and a 52-week, transaction-level cash flow forecast, plus a dashboard, with the chart of accounts mapped automatically in minutes and no build per engagement. Drivers are the real relationships in the business (headcount, pricing, collections, payment timing), not a growth rate typed into a cell. You do not construct the forecast; you review and adjust it.
Weekly cash
Clockwork forecasts cash a week at a time for 52 weeks, built from actual transactions, open invoices and open bills with adjustable expected payment dates. Reach does not do weekly cash flow forecasting; its planning is multi-year, monthly and spreadsheet-based. Among the tools compared here, Clockwork is the only one forecasting cash weekly, and for owners deciding what to pay this Friday that is the resolution that matters.
One model, everything agrees
Because everything in Clockwork sits on one model, the P&L, balance sheet, cash forecast, scenarios and dashboards agree with each other. Mira, our AI FP&A analyst, works from that same model. Clockwork was built AI-native; the analyst is part of the engine rather than a layer over reports.
Why firms pick Clockwork
Nothing to implement. Connect the books and the 52-week cash forecast, 5-year model and dashboard exist within minutes, for any client. There is no setup fee and no build per engagement, which is what makes it practical to offer forecasting to the whole client list and not just the largest accounts. One new advisory client covers any firm plan in under a month.
Built by a practitioner. Fady Hawatmeh began in FP&A at Boeing and ran an outsourced CFO practice for five years before founding Clockwork. The product is shaped by what that work actually required.
Thomson Reuters' FP&A partner. Thomson Reuters selected Clockwork as its FP&A software partner in August 2025 to bring forecasting-led advisory to firms in its ecosystem.
Pricing
Reach is priced per company, starting at $149 per month for one connection, and includes unlimited users and a client portal. Clockwork firm plans are Start, Scale, Growth and Enterprise, priced on functionality and firm complexity rather than client count: from $999 per month, each client getting the full model and weekly forecast, and seats are unlimited. One new advisory client at $2,500 a month covers any firm plan in under a month. We are not the low-cost option in this pair and we are not the template option. The question is what a firm can charge for a weekly cash forecast and full model delivered to every client, compared with a custom report.
Where Reach is the better fit
Choose Reach if your firm's advisory product is a highly customized report or dashboard, you want spreadsheet-level control over every formula, and a check-the-box forecast is fine. Clockwork would be overkill for that. Choose Clockwork if the product you sell is the forecast itself: a 52-week cash forecast, a 5-year driver-based model, scenarios on demand and an AI analyst, delivered to every client with nothing to implement. Clockwork also covers the reports; Reach does not cover the model.
Compare Clockwork to other FP&A tools
Evaluating more than one option? See how Clockwork compares to other forecasting and reporting platforms:
“Clockwork is BY FAR the easiest financial modeling software around. I have tried 10-15 FP&A pieces of software and NONE of them come close to Clockwork.ai. When I say that it’s easy, I mean VERY easy — it’s intuitive and user friendly!”
— Brendan Aronsohn
Frequently asked questions
Does Reach Reporting do cash flow forecasting?
In a basic form. Reach offers 3-way financial planning across P&L, balance sheet and cash flow, built with custom formulas in a spreadsheet grid. It is not driver-based and it does not forecast cash weekly.
Does Reach Reporting forecast cash flow weekly?
No. Reach's planning is multi-year and monthly. Clockwork builds a 52-week cash flow forecast at the transaction level, alongside a 5-year financial model.
What is the main difference between Clockwork and Reach Reporting?
Reach is a customizable reporting platform with a spreadsheet workspace and basic planning. Clockwork is an intelligent forecasting platform running its own computational models that builds a 5-year model and 52-week cash forecast automatically and also reports. Clockwork can do what Reach does; Reach cannot do what Clockwork does. For simple reports alone, Reach is the better use case.
How much does Reach Reporting cost?
Reach lists $149 per month for one connection, $290 for 10 and $550 for 25, billed per company, with a 30-day free trial.
Does Clockwork require implementation?
No. Connect a client's QuickBooks or Xero and Clockwork maps the chart of accounts automatically and builds the 52-week cash forecast, 5-year model and dashboard in minutes, with no setup fee.
