Clockwork vs. Syft: the reports, plus the forecast
Syft Analytics is a reporting, analytics, and consolidation tool, now owned by Xero. Clockwork is an intelligent forecasting platform that builds a 5-year driver-based financial model and a 52-week cash flow forecast from the books automatically, with full reporting built in. If the deliverable is a report, both can do it. If clients are asking what happens next, that's where Clockwork is built to work.
The 30-second comparison
| Clockwork | Syft | |
|---|---|---|
| Core product | Forecasting platform with its own computational models and full reporting built in | Reporting, analytics, and consolidation |
| Management reporting | ✓ Monthly, quarterly, and annual report packs built from the model, downloadable as a PDF | ✓ Custom reports, dashboards, and KPI analysis |
| Financial model | ✓ 5-year, driver-based, three-statement, built automatically | ✓ Budgets and scenario forecasts; not built automatically from drivers |
| Cash flow forecast | ✓ 52-week, transaction-level, built automatically | ✕ Weekly cash forecast not documented |
| AI financial analyst | ✓ Mira, built in | ✓ AI insights on charts |
| Consolidation | ✓ Yes | ✓ Strong, with multi-currency |
| Integrations | QuickBooks Online and Desktop, Xero, Excel/CSV, Google Sheets, and 50+ payroll systems | Xero first, plus QuickBooks and ecommerce sources |
| Pricing | From $719/mo for businesses on annual billing; firm plans from $1,499/mo | Per company, from about $23/mo, and bundled with some Xero plans |
| Free trial | ✓ 14 days, no card | ✓ Free trial and free version |
Competitor details and pricing checked November 2026 against public pages and listings. Verify directly with each vendor. Clockwork's current rates are on the pricing page.
What Syft does well
Syft is a solid reporting tool, especially for Xero-first practices. It does custom reporting, dashboards, KPI and ratio analysis, benchmarking, and multi-entity consolidation across currencies, and its per-company pricing starts low. Since Xero bought it in 2024, it is also bundled with some Xero plans, which makes it an easy add for firms already standardized on Xero.
Forecasting is not the center of the product. Syft offers budgets and scenario forecasts, but it does not build a driver-based model for you and does not publish a weekly cash forecast.
Where Clockwork differs
The model builds itself
Connect QuickBooks or Xero and Clockwork builds a 5-year, driver-based, three-statement financial model and a 52-week cash flow forecast from the books in about five minutes, with the chart of accounts mapped automatically. Every open invoice, bill, loan payment, and payroll run lands in the week it will clear. Nothing to implement, and nothing to rebuild when the books change.
Weekly cash, not just monthly
Cash runs out on a specific Friday, and a month-end total can hide it. Clockwork forecasts cash a week at a time, 52 weeks out, so the tight week shows up before it arrives.
Reports, forecast, and an analyst on one model
Monthly, quarterly, and annual report packs, dashboards, scenarios, and Mira, our AI FP&A analyst, all read from the same live model, so the numbers always tie out. Clockwork is the real AI-native FP&A software, built by a CFO who ran an outsourced CFO firm.
Pricing
Syft is priced per company and starts low. Clockwork business plans start at $719 a month on annual billing, and firm plans start at $1,499 a month, priced on functionality and firm complexity rather than client count. For a firm, one new advisory client covers any firm plan in about a month.
Compare Clockwork to other FP&A tools
“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 Syft do cash flow forecasting?
Syft offers budgets and scenario forecasts, but it is mainly a reporting and consolidation tool and does not publish a weekly cash flow forecast. Clockwork builds a 52-week cash flow forecast and a 5-year model automatically from QuickBooks or Xero.
Is Clockwork a replacement for Syft?
For most firms, yes. Clockwork builds monthly, quarterly, and annual report packs from the client's model, and adds the forecast, scenarios, and Mira on top. If you only need consolidated reporting on Xero, Syft is a lower-cost option.
Does Clockwork work with Xero like Syft?
Yes. Clockwork connects to Xero, QuickBooks Online, and QuickBooks Desktop, and maps the chart of accounts automatically.
How long does Clockwork take to set up?
About five minutes per client. Connect the books and the model, forecast, and dashboard are built, with no implementation.
See why teams are choosing Clockwork over Syft
A 15-minute demo walks you through the report pack, the 52-week cash forecast, and the 5-year model, all built from the same numbers.
