What exactly is Control?
Control is a financial reporting platform that connects your existing accounting systems to provide consolidated reporting across multiple entities. We automate the data collection and consolidation processes that finance teams typically handle manually, allowing you to maintain complete visibility as you scale without expanding your finance team.
How is Control different from an ERP system?
Control gives you many of the consolidation and reporting benefits of an enterprise ERP without the high costs, complex implementation, or disruption to your existing workflows. While ERPs require you to replace your current systems, Control sits on top of your existing accounting software, enhancing rather than replacing what already works.
Is Control a BI tool?
No. BI tools can combine data from many sources, but finance still has to build and maintain every financial definition on top. Control ships that finance logic as the product: consolidation, statement structures, intercompany eliminations, FX and CTA, with drill-down from any group figure to the source transaction.
How long does implementation take?
Most companies go from first call to live data in under two hours: automated AI-driven setup connects your systems, downloads the data, and drafts the chart of accounts mapping. Most customers have set all their needed customizations within two weeks. Traditional financial systems typically take 3-6 months to implement.
Which accounting & billing systems does Control integrate with?
Control supports direct accounting integrations with Netvisor, Procountor, Fortnox, Visma eEkonomi, Tripletex, e-conomic, Xero, QuickBooks, and Xledger, plus a separate Stripe integration for billing and payment data. If you use another accounting system, contact us about CSV import or a direct integration.
Do I need technical resources from my team for implementation?
No. For simple setups, your finance team connects your accounting system in a few clicks and reviews the AI-generated mapping. We handle the heavy lifting, and only need additional input when you have custom reporting requirements. No developer resources are required from your side.
What happens to our month-end close?
Nothing about your close process needs to change. Bookkeeping, accruals, and period locks stay in each entity's accounting system. Control syncs the books as they close, applies the group consolidation (currency translation, CTA, eliminations), and produces the group statements. Entries backdated after a sync are detected and re-synced automatically.
Can we keep our Excel and Google Sheets models?
Yes. Your models, formulas, and report templates stay where they are. Control replaces the export and copy-paste layer that feeds them, and connected MCP tools can refresh the numbers in a workbook in place. Inven runs its existing Google Sheets models on daily accounting data this way.
Is Control secure and compliant?
Yes. Finata Oy's information security management system is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified. Control's core platform is EU-hosted, processes customer personal data under a GDPR Data Processing Agreement, and uses human approval gates and audit trails for AI-assisted changes to support EU AI Act readiness.
Can Control help with financial forecasting?
Yes. While our core focus is on streamlining financial data from your actual results, our platform creates the clean, structured data foundation needed for accurate and automated forecasting.
How does Control help prepare for AI implementation?
The biggest challenge for implementing AI in finance is the lack of clean, structured data. Control creates this foundation by automating data collection, standardizing formats, and building proper data models. This means when you're ready to implement AI for financial insights, you'll have the high-quality data required for meaningful results instead of "garbage in, garbage out."
Joona Puro and the Inven team 
