Layerz vs Pigment

Pigment is built for continuous planning. Layerz is built for the model itself.

Pigment is an excellent FP&A platform for finance teams that run ongoing planning cycles: budgets, forecasts, dashboards. Layerz is built for deal-centric, model-centric work — where the output is a structured artifact you defend, share, and reuse across transactions.

	Pigment	Layerz
Primary use case	FP&A, budgeting, continuous planning	M&A modeling, deal analysis, structured financial models
Target user	CFO office, large finance teams	M&A analyst, PE-backed CFO, fractional CFO
Excel export	✗ Not a primary workflow	✓ Core feature — standard .xlsx
Setup	Requires implementation and onboarding	Self-serve in minutes
Time to first model	Days to weeks	Minutes
Agent API / MCP	✗	✓
AI integration	✗ Limited	✓ Native, agent-first
Deal / transaction modeling	✗ Not designed for it	✓ Built for it
Audit trail	✓	✓
Open output format	✗ Proprietary	✓ .xlsx export
Price	Enterprise — custom pricing	Free · Pro at 89 €/month

When Pigment wins

Large finance team running continuous planning cycles (budget, forecast, actuals)
Organisation needs connected planning across multiple business units
BI-style dashboards and data connectors are the core requirement
IT is involved and can support implementation

When Layerz wins

Project-based modeling: LBO, acquisition, infrastructure, SaaS plan
Model produced will be sent to a counterpart as a standard .xlsx
Self-serve required — no IT involvement, no implementation project
AI agents need to read, generate, or modify models through an API
Budget is closer to individual or small team than enterprise contract

Key difference

Pigment is a platform. Layerz is a modeling infrastructure.

Pigment replaces your FP&A stack — it connects to your ERP, coordinates budget cycles, and produces dashboards. The model is a means to an end. Layerz focuses on the model itself: its structure, its logic, its reusability across deals. The output is always a clean .xlsx your counterpart can open. These are different jobs, and for transaction-oriented finance work, Layerz is the more direct fit.

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