From Budgets to Performance: The Centage Evolution

When I stepped into the CEO role at Centage earlier this year, I didn’t just see a product.
I saw potential.

A platform already trusted by hundreds of finance teams.
A customer base that believed in the work we were doing.
And a market that’s overdue for disruption.

Yes, Centage is the best budgeting software on the market—but it was always meant to be more. What we have is a powerful foundation, built for finance, and now we’re evolving it into something bigger: a modern Financial Performance Management platform purpose-built for the mid-market.

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The Problem Finance Has Faced for Too Long

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Mid-market CFOs and FP&A teams are being asked to do more than ever.

• Predict in uncertainty.
• Align spend with strategy.
• Drive cross-functional accountability.
  

And yet, the tools at their disposal often fall into two extremes:

• Spreadsheets: flexible, familiar—and increasingly fragile.
  
• Enterprise platforms: powerful, but prohibitively complex and expensive.
  
  

Too many teams are stuck in the middle. They’ve outgrown Excel, but aren’t ready to hire an entire admin team to run an enterprise solution built for companies 10x their size.

That’s the gap Centage was built to fill.

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A Platform Reimagined for Today’s Finance Teams

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Over the last two years, Centage has quietly undergone a transformation.

We rebuilt the platform from the inside out—every interaction, every workflow, every line of code—while holding onto what made it great: accuracy, structure, and trust.

The most visible shift? Our new Worksheets experience.

Designed to capture everything finance teams love about Excel—speed, flexibility, clarity—Worksheets eliminate the chaos:

✔ No broken formulas
✔ No version control issues
✔ No manual reconciliations

It’s not a plugin. It’s not a workaround. It’s budgeting and forecasting, purpose-built for the way modern teams work—and built to scale across the organization.

We also doubled down on the logic that underpins finance itself.

Unlike tools that start with tech and bolt on accounting later, Centage was built on double-entry logic from the beginning. Every number, every assumption, every model flows cleanly into your balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow—automatically and accurately.

That’s what gives our customers confidence in their numbers. Not just during board meetings, but every day.

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From Budgeting Tool to Strategic Platform

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Budgeting was just the beginning. Centage is now building something far more powerful: a full Financial Performance Management (FPM) platform—designed specifically for the mid-market.

Here’s what that means:

🚀 Real-time forecasting that evolves with your business
🔁 Driver-based scenario modeling without needing a data scientist
🤝 Cross-functional collaboration with built-in guardrails
📊 Reporting that tells a story, not just delivers numbers

We’re focused on creating financial software that empowers finance leaders to lead.
Not tools that slow you down.
Not dashboards for dashboards’ sake.
Just the clarity, agility, and insight you need to drive strategy.

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Built With—and For—Our Customers

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To our longtime customers—you’ve been part of this evolution.
From Budget Maestro, to Planning Maestro, to the modern Centage platform—you’ve helped shape what we’re building. Your feedback, your trust, and your partnership have fueled our progress.

To those just discovering us—welcome.

The platform you’ve been looking for may already be here.
A modern, AI-enhanced planning and performance platform, purpose-built for companies like yours.

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What’s Next: Building the Future of Finance, Fast

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Disruption doesn’t always mean breaking the system. Sometimes, it means building something better.

That’s our focus.

A new generation of tools that give finance teams what they need to be more than number-crunchers. We’re helping them become the strategic powerhouses they were always meant to be.

Centage is no longer just budgeting software. We’re a Financial Performance Management platform—and we’re just getting started.

Let’s build the future of finance together.

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‍Paul Lynch

CEO, Centage

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