Postscript

Postscript is an SMS platform that enables brands to communicate and engage with customers through text message marketing.

Industry
Sales Automation
Stage
Series C
Valued
Size
Integration
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| +1 FTE

increase in

team's output

| <1 week

time to value

| 50-75%

time savings

per report

Challenge

  • Postscript’s finance team needed to gather data from Quickbooks, Salesforce, and Snowflake in order to run their reports. This required a ton of manual SQL queries and combining exported reports
  • Additionally, they wanted to roll up their Excel-based models into a central database so they could deploy it across the company’s various Google Sheets to collaborate with and present to other departments
  • They ended up going with a different FP&A tool that is also Excel-native, hoping it would fix these issues
  • Unfortunately, this other tool had an incredibly complicated data model and after 6 months of trying, Postscript still wasn’t able to integrate their data from Snowflake to the tool, so it didn’t solve their challenges

We planned on hiring another person soon in our finance team, but Aleph has allowed us to keep our headcount flat for probably another year, while giving us the output that we would’ve gotten from that hire.

Chris Brubaker
,
Senior Director of Strategic Finance

Solution

  • Postscript decided to implement Aleph as a “rip and replace” of their current tool
  • Their team set out to use Aleph to create a central source of truth for all of their financial data plus their models that they create in Excel 
  • Their team syncs their models in Aleph and then pulls them into various Google Sheets to collaborate with team mates
  • They use Aleph to get instant access to their financial data in all of their models and run them significantly faster

Results

  • Their team set up integrations with Snowflake, Salesforce, and Quickbooks in under a day, and was fully onboarded within a week
  • Chris estimates that Aleph has given their team the output of another FTE FP&A Manager without adding a headcount 
  • Their speed and quality of reporting has improved drastically. For example, they can get budget versus actuals by department within a day
  • Chris is able to answer ad hoc questions from leadership much more effectively, because he can shift and transform data to compare things much more quickly 
  • Chris is able to spend more time building thoughtful narratives and adding commentary to reports, rather than just gathering data
  • Ally saves a full day each reporting cycle on manual work, and various reports and models take him between 50 and 75% less time to create

Current state

“Implementing Aleph was insanely fast. We did all of our quarter-end reporting with Aleph less than 3 weeks after signing.” - Chris Brubaker, Sr. Director of Finance

“We're very excited with Aleph. It's brought a lot of joy to us, and I don't say that about many tools” - Ally Nabbouh, FP&A Manager

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