Connect Looker and
Planful with AI

Automate the flow of actuals from your data warehouse into financial plans and sync forecast assumptions back to analytics. Stop exporting CSVs, reformatting data, and manually reconciling metrics between your BI platform and FP&A system.

No code required
Live in minutes
SOC 2 Type II

What you can automate today

Redbird gives your team ready-to-run workflows — just connect your accounts and go.

Sync actuals from Looker to Planful budgets for automated variance analysis

Push monthly actuals from Looker's centralized metrics directly into Planful budget vs. actual reports. Redbird maps your LookML dimensions to Planful's chart of accounts and entity structures, ensuring consistent comparative reporting without manual data entry.

Update Looker dashboards with latest forecast versions from Planful scenarios

Automatically refresh executive dashboards and board reports in Looker whenever finance publishes a new forecast scenario in Planful. Keep strategic planning aligned with live data by surfacing FP&A assumptions alongside operational metrics.

Alert finance when Looker actuals deviate from Planful budget thresholds

Monitor variance between live actuals in Looker and budget targets in Planful. Trigger notifications to FP&A teams when department spend, revenue, or headcount metrics exceed tolerance levels, enabling proactive forecast adjustments.

Enrich Planful driver-based models with operational KPIs from Looker

Feed sales pipeline metrics, customer retention rates, and unit economics from Looker directly into Planful's driver-based forecast models. Replace manual assumption updates with live operational data for more accurate rolling forecasts.

Generate board-ready financial reports combining Planful budgets and Looker actuals

Automatically compile monthly board packages that merge multi-year plans from Planful with departmental performance dashboards from Looker. Redbird formats and consolidates data into presentation-ready formats on a fixed schedule.

Archive historical forecast versions from Planful into Looker for trend analysis

Capture each forecast iteration from Planful and store it in your data warehouse for querying through Looker. Track forecast accuracy over time, analyze revision patterns, and build accountability into the planning process.

Live in four steps

No engineers, no pipelines to maintain. Redbird handles the connectivity — you focus on the outcome.

01

Connect your accounts

Authorize Looker and Planful with OAuth or API credentials. Redbird never stores your data — it just passes through.

02

Describe what you want

Tell Redbird what to do in plain language — no SQL, no code, no configuration files required.

03

Review and activate

Redbird shows you exactly what it will do before running anything. Approve the workflow, set a schedule, and switch it on.

04

Let it run — and iterate

Workflows run on your schedule or on triggers. Every run is logged. Adjust with natural language at any time.

Built for data-driven teams

Redbird understands both LookML's semantic layer and Planful's dimensionality model, so your finance and analytics teams can work from a single source of truth.

AI that speaks both LookML and Planful's financial hierarchies

Redbird's AI interprets your LookML measure definitions and automatically maps them to Planful's chart of accounts, entity structures, and custom dimensions. It recognizes when a Looker metric corresponds to a Planful account code, handles period-to-period aggregation differences, and maintains dimension hierarchies across both platforms. Whether you're syncing department-level actuals or consolidating multi-entity forecasts, Redbird preserves the granularity and business logic defined in each system.

LookML dimension mapping
Chart of accounts alignment
Period aggregation logic
Entity consolidation rules
10×

faster than exporting Looker queries and manually uploading to Planful

No CSV exports, dimension remapping, or monthly reconciliation cycles required

Auto-generated reports

Redbird can pull from Looker and Planful simultaneously, merge the results, and format a polished report — sent on a schedule or on demand.

Trigger-based alerts

Set conditions in natural language. Get notified in Slack or email the moment a threshold is crossed in either Looker or Planful.

Enterprise-grade security

SOC 2 Type II certified. Data flows encrypted in transit and at rest. Fine-grained permission controls with full audit logs.

Bidirectional sync

Push data from Looker into Planful, or from Planful back into Looker. Resolve conflicts with configurable merge rules.

Full audit trail

Every workflow run is logged — what ran, what changed, and why. Replay or revert any individual step at any time.

Triggers & actions for every team

Start automations from any event in Looker or Planful — from dashboard refreshes to forecast locks.

Looker
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

Scheduled Look completes

Trigger when a scheduled Looker report finishes running and new actuals are available.

Trigger

Dashboard tile refreshes

Detect when a specific dashboard tile updates with fresh data from the warehouse.

Trigger

Explore query returns results

Monitor when a saved Explore query executes and matches predefined filter criteria.

Action

Create or update Look

Generate new saved reports or update existing Looks with refreshed data from Planful.

Action

Send scheduled dashboard

Trigger delivery of a specific dashboard to stakeholders via email or Slack.

Action

Write data back to database

Push forecast assumptions or budget targets from Planful into your data warehouse tables.

Planful
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

Forecast version published

Trigger when finance locks and publishes a new forecast scenario or budget version.

Trigger

Budget cycle closes

Detect when a planning period closes and budget targets are finalized for the cycle.

Trigger

Variance threshold exceeded

Monitor when actual vs. plan variance crosses a configured threshold at account or entity level.

Action

Load actuals to cube

Import monthly actuals from Looker into Planful cubes for variance reporting and analysis.

Action

Update driver assumptions

Refresh driver-based model inputs with live operational metrics from your BI platform.

Action

Create consolidation entry

Generate intercompany eliminations or adjustments based on calculated values from Looker.

Looker
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Planful

Ready to connect your stack?

Stop manually syncing actuals between Looker and Planful. Redbird connects your BI platform and FP&A system so finance and analytics teams work from the same data.

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