Causal has been really helpful for us to visualize how we are tracking our projections vs. our actuals and present this information to our shareholders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The system requires a bit of getting used to and is not super intuitive at first. The Causal team though is very responsive and always eager to help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Causal makes forecasting for businesses so easy. I appreciate the API will connect in to lots of places and pull live data. This means I can create great rolling forecast data that is more accurate. It's a lot easier and faster to use than excel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a bit of a learning curve to Causal for those unfamiliar with it. However, they have a wealth of training material on their website. You can also try the FinOps Academy Causal training course for extra help.

Once you're used to the system it's an absolute joy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Visualisation and live dashboard with customizability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can be quite confusing for new users who are unfamiliar with Causal capabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Causal can easily connect outside data sources from google sheets, bigquery data tables, netsuite and more. They also have a team that is very responsive to questions and platform feedback. Causal allows users to easily build models and present the data in customizable graphs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have faced a few challenges with causal. One of the challenges is getting a new employee up to speed on the platform. Causal offers a large amount of training but there is a learning curve between the simple trainings and a companies fully built complex model structure. Another challenge is due my companies vast usage of causal and the amount of interconnected models and scenarios we have there have been speed and model size issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Causal is built as a modeling tool for earlier-stage businesses. Version control capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lots of potential for improvements:

1. Not currently useful as a reporting tool - this, to me is the biggest deficiency - it's more of a modeling tool, and I need both

2. Lots of low-hanging fruit to make it more user-friendly - UI, suppressing zeros was just launched, which is an improvement, 1:1 planning dimensions not always practical

3. Access and user permissions are labor intensive and could be prone to error. You have to modify via views which is confusing and could be a lot more efficient as a backend permission Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That the tool is relatively 'free form', if I need a single calculation, it can do that, if I need an entire model or multiple calculations it can also do that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has a relatively steep learning curve, but the video tutorials and previous SQL database experience made the tool very intuitive. The only other issue from an individual user standpoint is the price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

People in Causal are helpful, when we have a problem, they will solve it promptly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The cell limit was too low, we need to ask the team to adjust it for us. Sometimes the category part is not working which need to be fixed in back end. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Causal makes financial scenarios for our business easy to put together and share. We can create and save multiple different scenarios. The Causal team also has great support and will help out quickly if we have a question. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Due to the complexity of financial modeling and Causal's extensive feature set, it takes some time to get up to speed with how to use Causal effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Fast support to a real human on a chat interface

- easy to structure models

- cohort modeling is native and super helpful

- charting is quick, and outputs are attractive

- you can build and share an Executive Dashboard in which the variables can be changed to see the impact upon outputs. This doesn't change the underlying model, so all the hard work of structuring is protected.

- models can be copied easily for others to use and play with

- scenario modelling and exciting ways to display the outputs

- versioning to keep track of changes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- large models can get slow in calculating outputs, but this is evident only in the free plans. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Visualisation and dashboard building is taken to a whole different level with causal. This is a no code solution for building financial models and reporting suites which are easy to modify to each audience you have. I really like that you can pull in live data from different sources and have it update in your models on your terms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the dropping and dragging can be a bit glitchy but I've already spoken to the teams about this and it seems that a lot of this is already in development. I would say one thing people have to get over is the initial learning curve but its honestly worthwhile! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.