Liberty Latin America (LLA) faced significant challenges with their forecasting process:
<aside> What financial challenges is your team facing?
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"When you miss forecast targets in a public company, it's not just a finance issue. It becomes a trust issue - with Wall Street, the board and internal teams. People lose jobs over it."
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<aside> What solutions did you try and why it doesn’t work?
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"We've tried a lot - BI tools, Anaplan, Oracle, Excel power users, even an in-house project. But nothing connects data to human reasoning. The cost of a single forecast miss is massive, and we're still flying blind in between board meetings."
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It's that public companies still miss forecasts despite having:
BI dashboards
Modern FP&A tools (Pigment, Anaplan, Cube)
Large analyst teams
Clean data pipelines
<aside> They still miss because forecasting is not just a math or UX problem. It's a judgment problem - a complex, evolving web of numbers, narratives, relationships and decisions across the organization.
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Octopus AI provides a unified, AI-powered platform that automates data aggregation, root cause analysis for every variance and context enrichment and forecast generation. This ensures all teams work from the same, trusted set of rolling forecasts, updated in real time.
<aside> Automated Data Integration
Connects to ERP, and external market feeds to ingest and harmonize data instantly.
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<aside> Context-Aware AI Models
Leverages historical patterns, market signals, and operational context to generate accurate, scenario-based rolling forecasts.
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<aside> Collaborative Workflow
Enables finance, operations, and cost centers leaders to align on assumptions, drivers, and forecast outputs in one place.
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<aside> OPEX Rolling Forecasts
90% improvement in Velocity of Forecasts updates. Teams can adjust plans faster based on live data and agent recommendations. Rolling forecasts become reality, not just theory.
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<aside> OPEX Rolling Forecasts
33.41% improvement in accuracy of the Forecast (from 64.98% to 98.39%). Teams can adjust plans faster based on live data and agent recommendations. Rolling forecasts become reality, not just theory.
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<aside> Root Cause Analysis
Analysis of 99% of anomalies, completed in hours, not weeks. Cuts down investigation loops with cost centers and business units. Faster board prep, faster course-correcting.
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