Give Us Your Most Critical Planning Challenge

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What Is The deFacto Challenge

The deFacto Challenge is an open invitation to surface the planning problems that don’t fit neatly into alternative tools including spreadsheets, point solutions, ERP systems, or other planning solutions.

Cross-functional planning that won’t reconcile

Scenarios that require too many manual adjustments

High-volume or highly dimensional planning problems

Processes that break when assumptions change

Decisions where the business impact isn’t visible soon enough

If your planning challenge forces tradeoffs, workarounds, or long delays, it belongs here.

Most planning challenges don’t fail because teams lack expertise. They fail because the business has outgrown the tools.

The Reality of Planning at Scale

Financial and operational assumptions drift apart

Scenarios become fragile, slow, or impossible to update

Complexity increases, but confidence decreases

How It Works

There is no cost to submit and no obligation to move forward.

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What This Is — and Isn’t

✕ This is not a demo request.

✕ This is not a simplified use case.

✕ This is not a theoretical exercise.

✓ It’s a real planning challenge, addressed as it exists in the business — across functions, assumptions, and scenarios.

Who This Is For

The deFacto Challenge is designed for organizations that:

Have outgrown spreadsheet-based planning

Need tighter alignment between finance and operations

Rely on Excel and Power BI but struggle to scale planning

Are pursuing Integrated Business Planning or continuous forecasting

Believe their planning challenges are “too complex” for most tools

If your issue tends to stall planning conversations, it’s the right kind of challenge.