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Why we compare BI and reporting tools on these topics
| Topic | Finadeck | Control.dev |
|---|---|---|
| 01 The work around the report | KPIs and report frames built in onboarding Finadeck’s paid onboarding builds the company’s own KPIs and report frames turnkey1, and a CFO quoted on its home page says her team adjusts reports and KPIs itself as the group changes2. | Your team changes it, or asks Claude Your finance team edits the functional P&L, its allocation keys and a layout per audience, AI suggests the account mapping for the team to accept, and Claude drafts a dashboard you apply or discard, with no consultants to pay. |
| 02 When the second ledger arrives | Minority interests from an ownership history Finadeck describes eliminations by account or dimension, transaction-level intercompany matching and IFRS entries3, with minority interests and associates calculated from an ownership history4. | Eliminations in their own column, CTA kept apart Control.dev consolidates the ledgers each entity keeps, calculates Currency CTA and Elimination CTA apart from the eliminations, your AI client lists the intercompany pairs that do not match, and every figure opens to its entries. |
| 03 Planning on the same numbers | Balance sheet budgeting and rolling forecasts Finadeck describes rolling forecasts, a budgeted balance sheet kept in balance that helps build the cash flow forecast, and personnel costs budgeted by person5. | A budget from a prompt, versions you can lock The P&L, balance sheet and cash flow are planned together, every version keeps its history and a locked one refuses every write, and your AI client drafts values with a reason on every cell. |
| 04 AI on the numbers | AI insights in the dashboards Finadeck describes AI insights in its real-time dashboards6 and lists AI-assisted custom reports for the second half of 20267. | Claude, ChatGPT or Codex on the consolidated group They work over MCP with the user’s own role in every plan, and that MCP is built and tested for group accounting. The client starts from the statements and the group structure, not a raw export of the general ledger: it finds what needs attention and traces it to the entries. It also reviews a month’s bookings on request and drafts the board pack, and Control.dev’s own AI chat processes data in the EU. |
| 05 Time to live, and how you leave | Onboarding without a costly project, per-company prices, three months’ notice Finadeck’s FAQ says onboarding is fast with no costly projects8, its prices are per company per month, shown billed annually9, and its general terms run open-ended with three months’ notice for the customer10. | Live in under two hours for most companies, no setup fee, billed monthly Our team sets up the integrations and the mapping and most companies have live data in under two hours, the prices are public with no setup fee and no multi-year contract, the notice period starts from one month, billing is monthly and the free trial runs 30 days. |
Control.dev consolidates the ledgers a group already runs into one group view with eliminations.
Where Finadeck is the better choice
- Minority interests and associated companies calculated from an ownership history in the tool today4. Control.dev handles minority interests with group-level manual entries.
- A lower entry price for a single company with EUR 1M or more in revenue: from EUR 109.90 a month, billed annually9.
- Entities on Finnish ledgers Control.dev does not connect, such as Fennoa, Fivaldi, Heeros, Lemonsoft or Visma L711.
When teams look at Control.dev
From what finance teams have told us about the moment they started looking. We name no customers.
- Scenarios worked, budget entry did not. Teams liked the scenario tools but still keyed the budget in by hand.
- Leadership reads, finance builds. Teams wanted leadership to ask questions of the numbers directly, not only receive a report.
- The group accounts had to stand up to an audit or a funding round, with the same statements in an internal layout and in the official one.
Which fits your finance team
Choose Finadeck if you want minority interests and associated companies calculated from an ownership history, with your reports built in a priced onboarding.
Choose Control.dev if you want the setup done with you at no extra fee, monthly billing, layouts your team edits itself and your own AI client on the consolidated group.
30 minutes on your ledgers and your first question.
Working with Control.dev
- Live in hours or days, not months Our team sets Control.dev up with you. Most companies have live data in under two hours from the first call, a larger group takes days, the hardest a few weeks, and there is no setup fee at any size. The comparison hub shows how long each vendor says its own rollout takes.
- Prices on one page, nothing billed on the side EUR 249, 499 and 999 a month excluding VAT, on the pricing page, with no multi-year contract and a notice period from one month. Support, user changes and settings changes are in the price, and nothing is billed per ticket or per request.
- Close support from the people who build the product Your questions go to the team that builds Control.dev, most are answered within minutes and almost all the same day, and we work through accounting and group-structure questions with you, not only software questions.
- Your AI client on a structure built for group accounting Claude, ChatGPT or Codex works on Control.dev over an MCP built and tested for group accounting. The client starts from the statements and the group structure, not a raw export of the general ledger: it finds what needs attention and traces it to the entries, within the access your role allows.
- Built with the finance teams that use it, at pace Our roadmap comes from our customers, demanding finance professionals, and a gap in a feature list is the best news we can get. A missing feature typically ships in days and a larger one in weeks. A ledger connector we would build anyway comes at no extra cost; today Control.dev connects Netvisor, Procountor, Easor (Talenom), Fortnox, Spiris (formerly Visma eEkonomi), Tripletex, e-conomic, Xero, QuickBooks, Zoho Books, Odoo, Xledger and NetSuite, plus Stripe.
- A younger product, and who it is for Control.dev is built by Finata Oy in Helsinki since 2024, by a team from finance roles and finance systems. It fits a team that already works with AI tools, or wants to, and would rather not keep data engineers or system consultants for its reporting. If AI is not something your company wants to work with, we are probably the wrong partner, and where another tool covers more than Control.dev, the page above says so.
What switching looks like
- 1 Run both side by side for a period. Control.dev reads your ledgers with read-only access by default, so Finadeck and your ledgers stay as they are while you compare the numbers. The 30-day free trial covers up to three integrations.
- 2 Send us screenshots of the three or four reports your board already knows, and we rebuild them in Control.dev first, so the first month looks familiar.
- 3 Your contract and notice period decide when you leave the current tool. Control.dev has no implementation fee and no multi-year contract, and its notice period starts from one month, so the parallel run can start well before then.
Questions
Is Control.dev an alternative to Finadeck?
For many groups, yes. If you want minority interests and associated companies calculated in the tool, Finadeck covers more of that today4. If your group wants the eliminations and CTA in view, a budget drafted with a reason on every cell and reports its own team changes, Control.dev is built for that.
What do setup and later changes cost?
With Control.dev, our team sets up the integrations and the mapping at no extra fee, most companies have live data in under two hours, and Inven connected its sources and ran its first automated sync in hours. Later changes to a mapping, a layout or a dashboard are made by your team or its AI client, with no consultants to pay. Finadeck’s onboarding training costs EUR 2,490 to 4,490 depending on the plan, and onboarding you run yourself is free12.
How do the prices compare?
Both publish them. Finadeck charges per company per month, shown billed annually, from EUR 109.90 for reporting and EUR 239.90 for the plan with group consolidation, plus EUR 99.90 a month for the group environment9. Control.dev publishes its monthly prices, excluding VAT: EUR 249 for one entity and one integration, EUR 499 for consolidation with three integrations and EUR 999 with five, where a Stripe connection counts as one integration, with no implementation fee, no multi-year contract and a notice period from one month. Add up both for your own number of entities.
Can we use our own AI assistant?
With Control.dev, yes: Claude, ChatGPT and Codex work with the consolidated group over MCP, draft the budget with a reason on every value and draft dashboards you apply or discard. The client starts from the statements and the group structure, not a raw export of the general ledger. The product docs show how to connect each client, and MCP is in every plan. Finadeck’s pages describe AI insights in its dashboards6 and AI-assisted report building on its roadmap7; for access from your own assistant, check with Finadeck.
Which ledgers does each connect to?
Finadeck says it integrates with more than 30 accounting systems13, among them Netvisor, Procountor, Fennoa, Fivaldi, Visma L7, Heeros and Lemonsoft11, and its release notes added QuickBooks, NetSuite and Business Central from 2025 on14. Control.dev connects Netvisor, Procountor, Easor (Talenom), Fortnox, Spiris (formerly Visma eEkonomi), Tripletex, e-conomic, Xero, QuickBooks, Zoho Books, Odoo, Xledger and NetSuite, plus Stripe for billing data, and German entities on DATEV come in as an export through an AI client.
Where is the data stored?
Finadeck says its data is stored on servers in the EU15. Control.dev’s data is hosted on Google Cloud in Hamina, Finland, encrypted in transit and at rest, and its own AI features process data in the EU.
What support do we get?
Close support on every plan. Your questions go to the team that builds Control.dev, most are answered within minutes and almost all the same day, and we work through accounting and group-structure questions with you, not only software questions. Support, user changes and settings changes are in the price, and Enterprise adds a dedicated Slack channel and priority support.
