Finance
Answering a simple question about the numbers often takes days of exports and spreadsheets. Bastion works with your ERP and BI and explains the numbers down to the postings.
The CFO wants to know why operating expenses rose in September. Nobody has to order a report or build a new dashboard. The question goes to Bastion exactly as it was asked.
Decides: Financial controller
“Why did operating expenses rise in September?”
Bastion pulls the general ledger from ERP and cost center data from BI, within the access rights of the person asking. It compares September with August and with the budget, and notes where the data comes from.
Decides: Financial controller
Operating expenses: 41.2M in August, 45.6M in September
The increase splits into drivers: logistics, equipment repairs, rent and a few smaller items. Every driver links to the postings and documents behind it, so anyone on the team can follow the logic and check it.
Decides: Financial controller
Logistics +2.9M, repairs +1.8M, rent −0.6M
Bastion writes a short comment for the management report in the format your team already uses. The financial controller reads it, adjusts it if needed and sends it on.
Decides: Financial controller
Comment drafted, waiting for the controller
Ask: Show budget versus actual for the third quarter by division and explain the largest gaps.
You get: A table with explanations and links to the postings behind each gap.
Ask: Check this invoice against the contract and the delivery documents before payment.
You get: Matches and mismatches in prices, quantities and terms.
Ask: Prepare a one page summary of the quarter for the board.
You get: A draft in your template with figures from your systems and their sources.
Bastion works with the laws and industry requirements of any jurisdiction. Your rules become sources it checks against.
We start with monthly variance explanations for one cost area, where the same questions come back every month.
A pilot takes three to four weeks. We choose one process with your team, connect one system and measure the result on real tasks.
Your data already belongs to you. Your AI should too.
