What is Becide?
Becide is CFO decision intelligence for finance teams. A managed, tenant-scoped financial data lake with an AI analyst on top — it drafts your monthly management report from live curated data and answers board follow-ups in seconds, with every figure cited back to the query that produced it.
What Becide is — and isn't
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Fixes the data first
GL exports, billing, payroll, spreadsheets — ingested, cleaned, and curated into one governed picture.
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Reads, never writes
The product layer sits on top of governed data. It explains every number and never modifies your systems.
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Not a replacement ERP
Your systems of record stay where they are. Becide reads from them, doesn't replace them.
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Not a DIY data lake
Ingestion, cleaning, and curation are managed for you — no data engineering team required.
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Not a raw-file chatbot
The AI only reads governed, curated layers. Never your raw files or connector credentials.
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Not an overseas wrapper
Data is hosted and processed onshore in Australia — including AI inference.
Who it's for
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CFO
Generates the pack in minutes and answers follow-ups with evidence during the meeting.
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Finance team
One curated layer feeds both reporting and Q&A — connect once, report and ask from the same data.
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Board & executives
Exported management reports plus cited answers to questions raised in the room.
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Administrators
Role-based permissions, workspace scoping, and activity logs across the organisation.
Getting started
Typical onboarding is days, not months — the data foundation is provisioned as part of onboarding, not built as a project.
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Week 1 · Tenant provisioned
Isolated storage, dedicated encryption key, and workspace. You connect your first data source.
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Week 1–2 · Data flows
Raw, clean, and curated layers populate. A knowledge base maps business questions to your real tables.
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Week 2 · First pack
Generate your first management report from live workspace data and start asking follow-up questions.
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Ongoing
The pack regenerates on your reporting cadence; the assistant handles ad-hoc questions between cycles.
Product surfaces
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Management Report
Board-ready monthly pack: P&L, variance to budget, segment revenue, overheads, balance sheet, cash flow — with methodology and source query links on every section.
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Ask Assistant
Plain-language questions over the same governed data. Multi-step reasoning you can inspect, with citations and a methodology note on every answer.
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Connectors
CSV upload and Amazon Athena in v1. Every connection is tested before saving, with schema discovery and clear error reporting.
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Workspace controls
Role-based permissions, standing report instructions, connector health, and activity logs across the organisation.
Data layers
Your organisation's data lives in three layers in Sydney. AI can read only approved layers for your tenant.
- Raw
- Exact copies of uploads. You can export or download. Never surfaced to models.
- Clean
- Normalised, searchable text and vectors. Used for grounded retrieval.
- Curated
- Aggregated tables, KPIs, and reporting-ready metrics. Feeds both the pack and the assistant.
Privacy & encryption controls
- Dedicated encryption key
Every client receives an AES-256 key provisioned at onboarding.
- TLS 1.2+ in transit
Every request encrypted from browser to backend.
- Tenant isolation
Scope enforced at identity, storage, search, encryption, and AI run layers.
- AI guardrails
Read-only, no raw access, no secrets, no cross-tenant data, no training on your data, PII redacted.
- Audit trail
Every run is recorded with tools used and safety checks applied.
- Client-controlled exit
Export, then key destruction — ciphertext becomes unreadable, including in backups.
See Becide against your data landscape — from the pack to the assistant to the audit trail.