TECHNOLOGY
BUSINESS LOGIC
AI must do more than retrieve answers – it must compute them with precision and confidence
Anaplan’ s latest innovations centre on CoModeler, Custom Analyst and Agent Studio, alongside a new set of out-ofthe-box applications. Together, these additions bring conversational, generative, predictive and agentic AI more directly into enterprise planning workflows, with a particular emphasis on helping finance and other business teams make faster, better-informed decisions. CoModeler is designed to help model builders create, extend, troubleshoot, and optimise planning models through natural-language conversations, while also supporting structured inputs such as CSV specifications. It can help with model building, performance optimisation, documentation and model health, and it is activated through Agent Studio.“ The mandate to adopt AI has created a new critical challenge for business decision-making: AI must do
Adam Thier Chief Product and Technology Officer
Anaplan more than retrieve answers – it must compute them with precision and confidence,” says Adam Thier, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Anaplan. Custom Analyst gives business users a conversational way to explore custom planning scenarios and get trusted, governed, permission-aware insights from their models. It can return context-rich answers, generate charts and summaries, and show data lineage so users can validate results with confidence. Agent Studio serves as the centralised environment for building, testing and managing these AI capabilities across planning models. For finance teams especially, the broader platform story is about combining Anaplan’ s deterministic planning engine with conversational AI to support more transparent, auditable and scalable decision-making
94 September 2026