# Parallel Reviews
**Vendor:** Parallel  
**Category:** [Financial Analysis Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/financial-analysis)  
**Average Rating:** 4.9/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 28
## About Parallel
Parallel is an easy-to-use financial modeling platform built for early-stage companies helping them understand their runway, revenue, burn, and the impact of decisions without needing to build complex financial models.



## Parallel Pros & Cons
**What users like:**

- Users appreciate the **effective forecasting capabilities** of Parallel, enabling informed decisions for various business scenarios. (6 reviews)
- Users value the **exceptional customer support** from Parallel, noting their dedication to ensuring tool effectiveness and usability. (5 reviews)
- Users commend the **ease of use** of Parallel, facilitating quick financial modeling and seamless integration for better decision-making. (5 reviews)
- Users love the **easy setup** of Parallel, allowing quick implementation and efficient decision-making in just hours. (4 reviews)
- Users value the **speed to insight** offered by Parallel, enabling quick, informed decisions for business growth. (4 reviews)
- Users value the **data-driven decision-making** capabilities of Parallel, enhancing their confidence and speed in business choices. (3 reviews)
- Integrations (3 reviews)
- Customer Experience (2 reviews)
- Fast Implementation (2 reviews)
- Features (2 reviews)

**What users dislike:**

- Users have faced **occasional bugs** with Parallel, particularly early on, though stability has improved over time. (2 reviews)
- Users experience a **steep learning curve** with Parallel, especially without prior finance knowledge, though support helps ease the transition. (2 reviews)
- Users experience **download issues** that hinder exporting financial views, though feedback has led to prompt improvements. (1 reviews)
- Users experience a **learning curve** with Parallel, especially those without a finance background, though support helps ease the process. (1 reviews)
- Users experience a **limited visualization** of finances in Parallel, causing initial confusion despite excellent customer support. (1 reviews)
- Users desire **more features** in Parallel to enhance its functionality as a complete accounting system. (1 reviews)

## Parallel Reviews
  ### 1. Easiest Financial Modeling Tool to Stress Test Big Decisions

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Mason S. | Chief of Staff, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2026

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

Speed to insight. Parallel keeps modeling simple. This allows for quickly stress-testing decisions before making them which is game changer when scaling a venture backed company.

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

Requires an initial investment of time to onboard, but Parallel's support team is top notch and really helps you understand the most important things to focus on at each stage of the startup journey.

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Quickly making decisions about where to allocate capital and impact on our runway. We recently stress tested our marketing budget and in a half our meeting, we were able to build 5 different scenarios from scratch and see the impacts of spending X, Y, and Z amounts in marketing and how that would impact our cash position. Would've taken hours to build in sheets and compare in a clean and easy to understand format.

  ### 2. Empowering Financial Forecasts with Seamless Integration

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Richie S.

**Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2026

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

I have had a great experience on Parallel. It's insightful and helps me think through building a forecast and model starting with the basics. The tool helps me build a budget for my startup tech business and offers a budget vs actual report. It aids in building out my headcount forecast, driving my budget from both an expense and revenue perspective, especially if the headcount is sales-related. The customer success team is fantastic, knowledgeable about FP&A for tech businesses, and assists with setting up my budget and any questions about using the tool. They also help with financial reporting and preparing for equity raises. I love how seamlessly the system integrates with my accounting system, pulling historical data and making life easier. It's easy to create different scenarios on top of my standard budget and compare them to my main forecast. It's designed so that even a non-technical finance person like an operating founder can use it, making it very insightful. The scenarios are useful for deciding on hiring, revenue changes, product adjustments, and sales team planning. The initial setup was very easy, with the team onboarding me quickly and great training. I no longer have to manage spreadsheets and formulas as I did before using Excel and Google Sheets.

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

I would like to see revenue by customer in the system, so I can think through how each customer when I am reviewing my model. They are working on adding this feature here shortly, however.

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Parallel simplifies building budgets and forecasts for my startup, integrates with my accounting system for easy scenario planning, and helps me understand cash runway and headcount costs, all without needing to manage spreadsheets.

  ### 3. Parallel is a game-changer for early-stage founders!

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Chandler R.

**Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2026

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

Honestly, one of the best things about Parallel is the level of support and attention to detail. The team REALLY cares and works so hard to help us make sure that Parallel was actually useful to me and our business. I love being able to see multiple scenarios so I can plan for different business situations, whether it's doing well or struggling. It helps me understand the impact of headcount and other factors. I like that it connects my expenses with my revenue model, helping me understand how spend impacts revenue growth and whether we should hire more or wait. I like that it's built around helping me make faster decisions as a founder, which is really critical. That's something I would never take the time to do without Parallel.

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

I found there was a bit of a learning curve coming into Parallel simply because I didn't have a strong finance background. It was a little hard at first to wrap my head around how I should be thinking about my finances, but the customer success team was incredibly helpful and made it way easier to get up to speed.

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Parallel brought clarity and confidence to our finances, helping us make better hiring and planning decisions. It allows me to plan for different scenarios and understand the impact of expenses on revenue, making faster decisions possible. And it's been really helpful as we've been preparing to fundraise to feel confident that we have the right data room put together!

  ### 4. Clarity and Ease with Parallel's Financial Modeling

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Tyler M.

**Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2025

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

I love the scenarios feature in Parallel because it allows me to test out different assumptions and see how they would affect our business as a whole. This feature provides me with a logical and quantitative approach to evaluating various business decisions, enhancing our strategic planning process. It was incredibly easy to set up our full financial model with Parallel, taking less than an hour, which has been efficient and has worked reliably for months. The integration with QuickBooks is seamless, enabling a more cohesive workflow. Overall, Parallel has significantly improved the clarity and understanding of our financial model, which was not achievable with our previous approach of using a fractional CFO. The ease of use and valuable features make me very likely to recommend Parallel to others.

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

I wish Parallel had more features to function as a complete accounting system in the future.

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I use Parallel for its clarity and scenarios feature, which helps manage our financial model efficiently, allowing easy exploration of business changes, and quantitatively assessing assumptions.

  ### 5. Amazing, everyone on the Parallel team is so great & helpful

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Paloma P. | Operations, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2026

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

I love how financial forecasting and accounting is centrally located on one dashboard. It's easy to navigate for someone who doesn't have tons of finance experience. Customer support is always quick and efficient.

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

Small bugs from time to time that prevent me from using all of the products features. That being said they get fixed pretty quickly.

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Parallel is helping us understand exactly how much we can spend per department. Their scenario feature is awesome and very helpful.

  ### 6. Board ready in days!

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Roshan K. | Founder &amp; CEo, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2025

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

Finance is this black box that as a founder I need the answers from, but don't want to waste hours learning. I love how easy they break it down and fast they were able to show me how my business is operating and give me the ability to run the what-ifs. Not to mention how fast it was to get onboarded and how responses their team has been. With a few clicks we were connected to our system and are able to pull our expenses daily!

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

Nothing right now, it's really lived up to the hype!

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It's made forecasting and financial modeling super easy, any time a board member has a question we have the answer. Every executive team meeting we can hop in and find out what are the next things we need to focus on, what's at risk and we feel confident about the next steps. 

Basically, it solves our need to get answers to the decisions we are trying to figure out on a daily basis. We know our burn, our revenue growth, our burn multiple etc etc and how to change theem.

  ### 7. Easiest Scenario Modeling Experience

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Cory M. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2025

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

Parallel is so easy to use. They've created it in a way that is tailored to founders and the way they think.  I've used other forecasting and scenario modeling tools and no matter how hard I tried to use them, my work always needed to be changed by their internal teams because I never did it the way they intended me to. So there was always so much friction in the past. Parallel is easy to use, implement, and get started with. I was up and running immediately and I haven't needed much hand holding. Parallel's team is so good too. We have a dedicated slack channel with their team and they are so responsive. They are very open to feedback as well. What I love most about their team is most of the time when I have feedback or suggestions on things they can change, it's like they read my mind because they have already implemented those changes before I bring them up. They are constantly shipping new features and working hard to release helpful things. I use Parallel consistently as things are always changing in our business. Parallel has also become part of my closing the books process. Whenever I close the books, Parallel is a huge aspect of that process where I input my actuals and adjust my modeling for the future based on my actuals.  I love the team and product over at Parallel.

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

Even though I love the simplicity of how they built the platform, there are scenarios where I wish they had more advanced functionality.

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

As a founder, you have to forecast and model out future scenarios. You are always constantly thinking through different scenarios and how they will affect the business from sales to engineering to hiring to pretty much anything. However, there is an opportunity cost to the time spent modeling fictitious scenarios. It's great to talk about something hypothetically, but at some point you need to pull the trigger and execute on those things. So it's a fine line to walk. You can find yourself spending hours modeling and forecasting instead of actually executing which can end up being such a waste of time. So it's important that you have the right tools to help you use that modeling/forecasting time as efficiently as possible. That's what parallel does for me. I've built models in spreadsheets and I've also built them out in other forecasting softwares. I can say with 100% confidence that Parallel has made modeling/forecasting the easiest of any spreadsheet or forecasting software I've ever used. They allow me to be so efficient in my time spent in this area. Which allows me to make quicker decisions and get insights faster than I otherwise would. They also have built Parallel to focus on the things that matter most to a founder. Which is a huge distinction. What I care about as a founder is not the same as what my future finance team will care about. I care about how much cash I have, what our burn is, and how certain decisions will affect our cash position and our burn rate. Parallel simplifies things and helps you focus on what matters.

  ### 8. Helped me be confident in spending money!

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Jacob C. | VP Data Science, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2026

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

Being able to easily and quickly model out the impact of spend. I feel like as a founder I'm always hesitant to spend money on growth when I think extra work on my part could do it instead (which almost always is way slow), and this has helped me to recognize when I should be spending money to speed things up.

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

There are always tradeoffs when using software to provide what traditionally a hire would (finance hire), but it's been well worth it.

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Giving insight into how I can allocate spend to grow faster

  ### 9. Fast Onboarding with Instant Scenario Modeling

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Danny O. | Founder &amp; CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2025

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

Parallel easily integrated into our QuickBooks in under 1 hour had our entire business modeled, auto-refreshing forecasts and giving us insight for runway, burn, revenue and more. Chargebee doesn't provide much out of the box when it comes to forecasts, so Parallel took it upon themselves to export the data monthly and provide updated revenue forecasts based on all the subscription data. They also give you the attention you need with their support team!

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

Nothing I dislike. For a non-finance founder, can't wait to see what they come up with AI coaching:)

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I wanted to focus on building and selling, but every month forecasting took too much time and the tools were too complicated to get answers quickly. We needed a solution to pull data from Quickbooks and Chargebee to understand cash flow and when we could hire more resources.

  ### 10. Best for founder-led finance

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Brice D. | Founder &amp; CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2025

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

My alternatives are long spreadsheets or no finance. With Parallel, I can easily model out future scenarios with very little finance background. 

Basic & intermediate financial modeling advice is baked into the product, and the AI calls out when I do something that may be incorrect.

The support/success is unparalleled as well!

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

I don't find myself using it extremely often. I'm not sure it's connected to quite enough data sources to be a live source of truth. 

Even though the Quickbooks integration is great, I would love to pass other data in there as well: Headcount, MRR, etc.

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Parallel lets me model out the future without needing a full-time finance person or spending days building a complicated model. It's the perfect medium for founder-led finance.

  ### 11. Amazing product that gave me a vision for my finances as an early stage startup

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Ahmed E. | Co-founder &amp; CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2025

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

We are a small team, early stage and don't have an accountant in-house who will prepare dynamic reports for cashflow and budgeting, Parallel does that, I can confidently predict the next months and mitigate any risks. In addition to it's ease of use, amazing support from the team and they keep on top of the quality.

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

I would want to see more features that recommend personalized actions to be taken based on my financials but I believe they are working on that.

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Forecasting and budgeting is the main problem I use Parallel to solve, this helps me mitigate risks and plan for the next 12 months with confidence.

  ### 12. Very intuitive- Even with no finance background

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Henry G. | Chief of Staff, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2025

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

Set up took 30 minutes.. we connected to puzzle, created the expenses, pulled our headcount and we had all the data we needed to run scenarios... Our CSM jumps on calls, and shares tips before I ask. Parallel replaced my monster spreadsheets and stress.

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

No CRM integration yet but I know they’re working on it.

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We used to pay a ‘frac CFO’ thousands every month just to close the books and update our runway. Parallel is a fraction of the cost and gives us a lot more clarity than just runway. Our entire model was custom made for us.

  ### 13. Second-to-None Onboarding with a Super Helpful Team

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Edgar C. | CEO &amp; Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2026

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

The onboarding was second to none. The team is there to help with any questions.

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

Nothing. It’s been of huge value to our core team.

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We can run scenarios in an instant and make decisions much faster.

  ### 14. Parallel provides so much more clarity

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Riley O. | Chief Sales Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2025

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

I've been living in spreadsheets trying to forecast and spreadsheets can only get you so far. Parallel solves that problem and more. The analytics are very clean and I can clearly see where we are heading as a business.

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

There is not anything specific I dislike, this is lightyears ahead of my old spreadsheets.

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The main problems are forecasting and showing run rate. Additionally the ability to track true cost of headcount and being able to share this with my other executives.

  ### 15. Excellent product

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Garrett F. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2025

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

Parallel really helped us to dial in our model for raising. What would've taken us weeks in spreadsheets was made extremely easy with Parallel's tools, and it gave us something that we felt confident giving to investors. It's an awesome product!

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

There are a few features that would be nice to have, but completely understandable that they don't have them given their stage of business.

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Parallel helped us model our forecast and financials for our raise.

  ### 16. FP&A at the Speed we Need!

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** James P. | COO, Co-Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2025

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

I'm finally able to interact with my data in an intelligent real time way straight out of quickbooks with ease. Customer support and hands on CEO is awesome. Was super easy to integrate into our tech stack.

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

New software always has a learning curve but getting better each day.

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It' s helping us with financial forecasting, pricing modeling, and getting ahead of our burn before it gets ahead of us.

  ### 17. I made my most important decisions as a founder with Parallel open on a screen.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Jonathan G. | Co-Founder &amp; CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2025

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

Parallel allows me to understand how much time I have to hit specific milestones before I have to raise again.

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

Would be cool to be able to talk to a chat that would change the numbers in the model.

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Parallel shows me which levers I need to use to grow my company.

  ### 18. Incredible Team

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Ethan W. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2025

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

The team is available non stop around the clock and will do whatever it takes to make sure customers are happy and sucesfull.

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

Legitimately nothing, they have been perfect to work with.

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Financial forecasting, has gotten us out of spreadsheets and made it exciting to forecast.

  ### 19. Amazing software that helps me forecast and plan better

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Andrew B. | Operations Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2025

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

I use Parallel for my forecasting and book keeping. 

By combining these two things together I am able to understand where I am spending money today, and make decisions on how I should spend it tomorrow. I couldn't live without it.

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

Nothing, software is great and the team is shipping new features quickly.

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I am able to understand 
- Cash burn 
- Revenue per employee 
-Runway 
-Targets for the month, quarter and year 
-Can see how changing quotes effects us long term.

  ### 20. Quick intuitive FPA

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2025

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

Ease of use and simple design. Parallel doesn't over complicate a model like some other providers do.

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

My biggest issue was not being able to export a view of the financials that included actuals and the forecast. However, i provided that feedback and the team built it quickly.

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Ability to tell the financial story of the business. Easy scenario planning. AI insights to review forecast vs actuals.

  ### 21. Amazing team and very well built product.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Zack M. | Account Executive, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2025

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

Parallel is the best tool out there! Super user friendly, easy to view and change the dashboard. Highly recommend!

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

That I didn't find them earlier! I wish I found them long ago.

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Finance Forecasting

  ### 22. Parallel Review

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Eman M. | Executive Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2025

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

Straightforward interface and easy to update relevant fields

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

Unable to trace changes made by other users

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

it helps forecast ARR and MRR

  ### 23. Quick and Easy Viewing Of The Metrics That Matter

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Evan L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2025

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

The service is phenomenal. Quick viewing of metrics that matter most.

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

With it being a newer product there are less integrations than others but they are growing QUICK since I first started using them

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Visualization of our financial data in a way for internal and external stakeholder to view.

  ### 24. Amazing for scenario building when fundraising and hiring

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Stephanie G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2025

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

Customer service is great and it is a great tool to manage forecasting and impacts on your business when building scenarios and hiring plans.

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

As all companies experience, there is the occasional bug.

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Managing burn and forecasting for seed raise.

  ### 25. We use Parallel to make smart bets instead of budgets

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Caleb H. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2024

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

Early stage venture-backed companies don't need to make budgets, they need to make smart bets. 

Instead of GAAP financials, Parallel gives us 'decisionmaking financials' that help us decide when something we want to do actually accrues value to the company.

It was super easy to implement, we got to making decisions in a couple of hours instead of weeks for similar sfotware.

Want to hire an engineer? Let's check it increases velocity for the business. What about shut down this costly program? We use Parallel to show us what that _actually_ means for the company. Ultimately, it's finding the right things to optimize and care about.

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

They're building fast, but Parallel is still early, the AI is always improving (which also means it's not perfect). But their success team is incredible at filling in the gaps while they're building.

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Decisionmaking financials, helping me model and think through the bets we want as a company.

  ### 26. Great for startup projections and runway

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Cory M. | Co-Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2024

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

Quick setup
Easy to run different scenarios of your business model
Easy to contact customer support
Can share a custom view of your model with investors easily

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

It's built as a tool to fully replace my manual spreadsheet - which can be a good thing, but has taken some time to migrate off of my sheet

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Parallel is a platform that lets you enter your business model, connect driving metrics, run scanarios, and predict cashflow/growth/etc.

  ### 27. Changed how we run our business

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Chase M. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2025

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

Before using Parallel, we made alot of decisions in our business off of "feeling" or what our customers said that day. Since using Parallel, we've made our all of our decisions based off our models, which has helped us feel more confident in the decsions we're making.

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

I was one of the earlier customers of Parallel, so I had some bugs in the beginning, but haven't had issues in the last six months.

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It's helping us make more data-driven decisions with our business

  ### 28. Game changing for startup finance

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 30, 2024

**What do you like best about Parallel?**

It's turned hours (and hours) or excel modeling into a few minutes of work every month. I know exactly what my burn is, how a new bet will impact that number, and helps me stay more on top of our finances.

**What do you dislike about Parallel?**

I've been a customer for a few months and haven't found anything I dislike yet.

**What problems is Parallel solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Significant time-saving in financial modeling and decision making.



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## Parallel Integrations
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## Parallel Features
**Budget Creation**
- Data Import
- Budget Hierarchies
- Versioning
- Formulas
- What-If
- Budget Periods

**Data Management**
- Data Import
- Data Consolidation
- Data Validation

**Agentic AI - Accounting & Finance**
- Autonomous Task Execution

**Budget Management**
- Consolidation
- Adjustments
- Workflows

**Reporting Structure**
- Reporting Hierarchy
- Report Templates
- Report Types

**Forecasting**
- Historical Data
- Reforecast
- Forecast Types
- Rolling Forecasts
- AI

**Standard Analytics**
- Standard KPIs
- Standard Reports
- Financial Statements
- Drill Down

**Analytics**
- Variance Analysis
- Forecasts Comparison
- Forward Looking

**Custom Analytics**
- Dashboards
- Custom KPIs
- Custom Reports
- Self Service
- Multiple Entities

**Agentic AI - Budgeting and Forecasting**
- Natural Language Interaction
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making

**Agentic AI - Financial Analysis**
- Cross-system Integration
- Decision Making

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