Connect Planful and
S&P Capital IQ with AI

Redbird AI syncs financial planning data with market intelligence automatically. Stop manually exporting comps from Capital IQ to update Planful models, re-keying peer benchmarks into forecasts, or chasing down market data for board decks.

No code required
Live in minutes
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What you can automate today

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

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Enrich Planful budgets with real-time peer financial benchmarks from Capital IQ

Automatically pull competitor revenue, margin, and growth metrics from S&P Capital IQ and append them to Planful budget templates. Finance teams get market context without leaving their planning workflow, ensuring forecasts reflect current peer performance.

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Update Capital IQ financial models when Planful forecast versions are finalized

When your latest forecast is locked in Planful, automatically push updated company financials and projections to S&P Capital IQ models. Corporate development and IR teams work from the same numbers without manual file transfers.

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Generate variance commentary comparing Planful actuals against Capital IQ peer estimates

When actuals load into Planful, Redbird pulls comparable company estimates from Capital IQ and generates variance analysis commentary. Board reports show how your performance stacks up against peers, with explanations written automatically.

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Alert FP&A when peer company financials in Capital IQ exceed threshold changes

Monitor competitors' quarterly results, guidance updates, and estimate revisions in S&P Capital IQ. When material changes occur, Redbird flags the relevant Planful scenarios or assumptions, prompting forecast reviews before your next board meeting.

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Build scenario comparison reports showing Planful projections vs Capital IQ market multiples

Automatically generate valuation sensitivity tables that compare your Planful scenario outputs against current trading multiples and transaction comps from Capital IQ. Corporate finance gets board-ready scenario analysis without rebuilding spreadsheets each quarter.

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Sync Planful entity hierarchies with Capital IQ organizational structure data for M&A modeling

When evaluating acquisitions, pull target company structure and subsidiary financials from S&P Capital IQ directly into Planful consolidation models. Post-merger integration planning starts with accurate entity mapping, eliminating weeks of manual data normalization.

Live in four steps

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

01

Connect your accounts

Authorize Planful and S&P Capital IQ 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 AI understands both Planful's planning cube structures and S&P Capital IQ's financial data schemas, so you can connect FP&A workflows with market intelligence without middleware.

AI that reads Planful dimensions and Capital IQ data models

Redbird maps Planful account hierarchies, entity structures, scenario versions, and time periods to corresponding Capital IQ company financials, estimates, market data, and transaction comparables. The AI handles unit conversions between Planful's reporting currency and Capital IQ's multi-currency data, reconciles fiscal period mismatches, and joins peer company identifiers to your custom benchmarking dimensions. No hardcoded field mappings—Redbird adapts when you restructure your Planful cube or change your Capital IQ peer sets.

Planful cube metadata
Capital IQ company identifiers
Fiscal period alignment
Multi-entity consolidation
10×

faster than exporting Capital IQ spreadsheets and reformatting for Planful imports

No Excel plug-in exports, CSV formatting, or manual data reconciliation between systems

Auto-generated reports

Redbird can pull from Planful and S&P Capital IQ 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 Planful or S&P Capital IQ.

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 Planful into S&P Capital IQ, or from S&P Capital IQ back into Planful. 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 forecast locks in Planful or data updates in Capital IQ—Redbird handles both directions.

Planful
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

Forecast version finalized

Fires when a budget or forecast scenario is locked for reporting in Planful.

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Actuals loaded from ERP

Triggers when monthly or quarterly actual financial data completes integration into Planful.

Trigger

Variance threshold exceeded

Activates when budget-to-actual variance crosses defined materiality thresholds in any dimension.

Action

Create scenario version

Generate a new forecast scenario or planning case with defined assumptions and drivers.

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Update dimension members

Add or modify accounts, entities, products, or custom dimension values in the Planful cube.

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Post commentary to report

Attach written variance explanations or assumptions notes to specific account/entity combinations.

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S&P Capital IQ
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

Peer financials updated

Fires when quarterly or annual financial statements are published for companies in your screening list.

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Estimates revised

Triggers when analyst consensus estimates change beyond a defined threshold for tracked companies.

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Transaction announced

Activates when M&A deals matching your criteria are added to Capital IQ's transaction database.

Action

Pull company financials

Extract income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow data for specified companies and periods.

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Screen for comparables

Run saved screens based on industry, size, geography, or financial metrics to identify peer companies.

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Retrieve market multiples

Fetch current trading multiples or transaction valuations for comparable company analysis.

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Ready to connect your stack?

See how Redbird AI syncs Planful with S&P Capital IQ—no custom scripts, no manual exports. Start automating FP&A workflows with market intelligence in minutes.

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