Give Us Your Most Critical Planning Challenge
- Current tools simply can’t handle complex needs.
- Poor performance leads to limited adoption and use.
- Current solution is too complex, difficult to use or costly.
Submit it. We'll take it on.
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
1. Submit your challenge
Describe the planning problem you’re facing today and why it’s difficult to solve with your current approach.
2. We take it on
deFacto will select the most demanding submissions and demonstrate that deFacto can meet the challenge.
3. We share the outcome
The challenge and approach will be published to demonstrate how complex planning problems can be addressed in practice.
There is no cost to submit and no obligation to move forward.
Industries Served
Companies helped
What makes us qualified to solve your challenges
Years of experience
Planning challenges solved
What This Is — and Isn’t
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.