Steer margin. Not spreadsheets
Variance arrives too late
By the time deviation shows in the P&L, root causes are weeks old and the window to act is closed.
Causality is never formalized
How the business makes money sits in a few heads. When margin drops, one person rebuilds the bridge between price, volume, mix, and input costs — every time, from scratch.
Decisions leave no trace
High-stakes calls happen in slides and side-channels. No owner, no costed impact, no follow-through.
Data doesn't match
Drivers live in different tools with different naming. No one trusts the numbers until someone reconciles them manually - and that takes the first week after close.
From monthly rearview mirror to live cockpit.
Live P&L Intelligence
Vela doesn't add another report. It builds a causal metric tree that links every margin and cash movement to its operational root cause - so your team debates actions, not numbers.
Automatic Data Trust
Instead of explaining last month's variance, Vela flags the 3–5 drivers drifting now - with enough time to correct before the P&L absorbs the hit.
Anticipatory Steering
Every decision in Vela has an owner, a deadline, a costed impact, and a 7-day execution loop. No more "we'll investigate" : just "who owns this, and by when."
First governed decisions in 1 week
Model the business
Build the causal tree connecting operations to the P&L. Import your business plan, inherit its naming, anchor targets. Data gaps are cleaned as a byproduct prioritized by P&L materiality, not as a separate project.
Automate P&L tracking
Full P&L by product, client, or job : every line, not a sample. Variance decomposed into operational drivers. Monthly reporting from a live source of truth. Anomalies flagged before they compound.
Explain any variance
Trace drift through the causal tree, driver by driver. Quantify downstream financial impact. Identify the highest-value corrective lever - and how long the window stays open.
Simulate and commit
Run what-if scenarios through the causal tree in minutes. Maintain BP variants — base case, pessimistic, optimistic — each with trigger logic. Get alerted before close when a leading indicator deviates.
Control execution
Track whether decisions move the targeted driver. Show evidence-based progress on value creation. Answer any ad hoc question from the CEO or board in under a minute.
Hear it from our users
"Real trade-offs, real impact"
" spend 2+ days per month on variance analysis and board reporting. With Vela, the P&L bridge is live - I review drifts weekly and the board pack generates itself.
Guillaume
Site Director, CNC shop
"We act, measure and win"
We tried linking shop floor and finance for years. With Vela, in a month, every key driver was owned and connected to margin. Real trade-offs, real impact
Laure
The studio behind 22+ industrial AI companies deployed in 3,000+ factories worldwide.