Board is opening a new chapter around artificial intelligence with the launch of BoardAI.com, a platform dedicated to research, ideas and experimentation around the future of enterprise planning. The initiative aims to explore how AI can transform planning processes, decision-making and collaboration between teams and intelligent agents.
Unlike a traditional presentation of features, BoardAI.com positions itself as a space for exploration. Board publishes insights, research, methodological frameworks and prototypes designed to examine what planning could become in an environment where AI plays an increasingly important role.
Agentic Planning at the heart of the discussion
One of the main topics addressed by BoardAI.com is Agentic Planning. This approach seeks to go beyond using AI as a simple analysis or automation tool. Agents could gradually become involved in different stages of the planning process, taking into account the data, rules and context specific to the company.
However, this evolution raises new questions for organizations. How far can a company allow AI to intervene in its processes? Which decisions should remain in the hands of employees? And how can organizations ensure that the recommendations produced by agents remain consistent with their objectives and rules?
BoardAI.com aims to explore these issues.
Context is becoming a central element
One of the first topics published is an exploration of the importance of context in artificial intelligence architectures. For Board, AI designed for businesses cannot rely solely on isolated data. It must also be able to understand the definitions, policies, relationships between metrics and the various dependencies that structure the business.
This approach reflects a challenge well known to finance departments: information only has real value when it can be interpreted in context. For planning, this means in particular connecting financial data with the company’s objectives, operational assumptions and constraints.
Rethinking the role of dashboards
BoardAI.com also examines the future of traditional dashboards. The issue is not necessarily their disappearance, but rather how users interact with information.
With systems capable of analyzing data, identifying trends and contributing to the formulation of recommendations, planning could gradually shift from a consultation-based approach to one more focused on action and decision-making.
This evolution could change the role of performance management tools in businesses, particularly for finance functions that use data every day to monitor performance and prepare decisions.
Measuring AI through decisions
Another topic addressed by BoardAI.com is how to measure the return on investment of artificial intelligence. Board suggests that this measurement should not be limited to productivity gains or the number of tasks automated.
The impact of AI could also be assessed through the decisions it helps change. In planning, this approach shifts the focus towards the quality of trade-offs, the speed of decisions and teams’ ability to respond to changes in context.
For finance departments, this question is particularly important as AI begins to become integrated into forecasting, planning and analysis processes.
Prototypes to explore future use cases
BoardAI.com also presents several prototypes described as being under exploration. Among them is a Planning Knowledge Graph, designed to connect the metrics, policies, definitions and dependencies used in planning processes.
Another project, called Agent Accuracy Lab, focuses on the accuracy, consistency and reliability of agents. Board also presents a Contextual AI Workspace, designed as a collaborative environment for users and AI agents around a decision.
For now, these initiatives are presented as explorations. Board specifies that they do not necessarily constitute elements of its product roadmap.
A discussion with direct relevance for finance departments
Through BoardAI.com, Board is seeking to broaden the discussion about the evolution of enterprise planning solutions. The issue is no longer simply to automate certain tasks, but to consider how AI could be integrated into decision-making processes while maintaining an appropriate governance framework.
For finance departments, this evolution could gradually affect areas such as budget planning, forecasting, scenario analysis and performance management.
The launch of BoardAI.com therefore illustrates a broader trend in the EPM market: AI is no longer limited to providing additional analytical capabilities. It is gradually becoming a topic of discussion about how companies plan, collaborate and make decisions in the first place.
Source: Board
