Solution · Artificial Intelligence

Reliable AI starts with a model that understands your business.

Before AI, your company needs a foundation: explicit business rules, governed data and a simulation platform where you can test scenarios without breaking anything. That's exactly what a good planning model already is — the building block on which AI starts producing explainable answers, not well-written guesses.

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Why Flexthink

We're business people who understand technology. We build the planning models that become the foundation for AI and put intelligence to work on top of them. We don't sell "magic AI" — we deliver the controlled foundation that makes AI reliable: explicit business rules, versioned data, access control and auditable scenarios.

15+
Years modeling businesses
90+
Projects delivered
1
Single, governed foundation
Scenarios you can simulate
How we do AI

AI at Flexthink happens on three fronts.

We don't treat AI as a standalone product. It grows out of what we've already built for you, across three fronts that build on one another: the reliable foundation, the custom solutions on top of it, and the orchestration of agents that get the work done.

Front 1 · The foundation
Our tools are already the foundation of good AI
Most of what we deliver — planning models, governed data, scenario simulation — is exactly the foundation reliable AI requires: explicit business rules, versioned data and a place to test without breaking anything.
TM1, Anaplan, Power BI and the data layer as the foundation.
Front 2 · Custom solutions
Tailored AI on top of the deployed tools
With the foundation live, we build focused, pragmatic AI solutions: forecasting and optimization with machine learning, anomaly detection, connectors and Python scripts, copilots that answer from governed numbers.
Machine learning, connectors, Python and copilots.
Front 3 · Agentic orchestration
AI agents that execute, with watsonx Orchestrate
The most advanced front: agents that don't just answer but act — orchestrating tasks across systems with IBM governance and security. This is where IBM watsonx Orchestrate comes in.
What we deliver

The foundation AI needs to be reliable.

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Simulation platform with business rules

A scenario engine where your business rules are explicit and controlled. Testing assumptions becomes a click — and every number has logic you can audit.

  • Comparable what-if scenarios side by side
  • Versioned and governed rules
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Reliable data layer

Good AI needs good data. We structure a single source, integrated with the ERP, versioned and auditable — the right fuel for any AI model, with no garbage getting in.

  • Single source integrated with the ERP and the business areas
  • History, versioning and audit trail
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AI and machine learning on top of the model

Forecasting, optimization and anomaly detection working on a model that already knows the business rules — with every result explainable and traceable.

  • Forecasting and optimization with ML
  • Results that flow back into the model
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Assisted decisions and copilots

The next step, as the foundation matures: natural-language questions over reliable numbers, with business guardrails — AI answers from the model, it doesn't make things up.

  • Natural-language queries over governed data
  • Explainable answers, with the source of the number
Why it matters

AI running loose over chaotic data produces an answer that's pretty and wrong. The problem is rarely the AI model — it's the foundation.

Everyone wants AI in the enterprise, but jumping straight to a language model on top of scattered spreadsheets is a recipe for hallucination dressed up as a report. Without explicit business rules, without governed data and without somewhere to simulate, AI has no way of knowing what's true in your business.

A planning model solves this because it's already a simulation platform with controlled rules and structured data — the building block that was missing. On that foundation, AI stops being a black box and starts delivering explainable, auditable scenarios. That's why we start with the foundation: the reliable model first, then the intelligence on top of it.

FAQ
Why not just drop my data into an LLM and ask for the answers?
Because an LLM doesn't know your business rules and can't tell good data from stale data. Without a foundation that has explicit rules, governance and history, it produces plausible — and often wrong — answers. The planning model provides that controlled context — AI starts answering from auditable numbers, not from assumptions.
Do I need to replace my stack to use AI?
No. We start with what you already have: your planning model as the foundation of rules and simulation, integrated with your data sources. AI comes in as a layer on top of that foundation, without tearing up what already works.
Where to start?
With a use case that has clear ROI — usually a scenario simulation or a forecast where the decision carries financial weight. We structure the foundation (rules + data) around it and put AI to work there first. A fast, reliable result before scaling up.
Next step

Let's talk about AI on a reliable foundation.

Scenario simulation, forecasting with machine learning or a copilot over governed data — tell us the context and we reply within 24h.