You can find life sciences financial planning tools by matching your finance need to a category: FP&A platforms for runway and program cost, accounting systems for actuals and spreadsheets for ad hoc analysis. Abacum is the AI-native business planning platform for scaling enterprises. It brings all your data, business logic and business context into one governed place. This directory shows where to look for each need. In life sciences, runway is the plan: 33% of public US and EU biotechs had under 12 months of runway at the end of 2025 (EY, via BioSpace, 2025).
Directory by finance need
Finance need | Where to look | Examples |
|---|---|---|
Rolling cash and runway forecast | FP&A and business planning platforms | Abacum, Jirav, Pigment, Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning, Planful |
Spend by program and phase | FP&A platforms connected to your ledger | Abacum, Jirav |
Milestone and financing scenarios | FP&A platforms with scenario modeling | Abacum, Pigment, Anaplan |
Actuals and close | Accounting systems | Sage's biotech and pharmaceutical accounting suite and other ledgers |
Ad hoc analysis | Spreadsheets and add-ons | Excel, Google Sheets, Cube, Datarails, Vena |
What to look for in life sciences planning tools
A cash forecast you can re-plan week by week.
Cost by program and phase.
Scenarios for trial readouts, delays and the next raise.
A budget built on the same accounts as your actuals.
Outputs that explain themselves, so you can answer investor and board questions.
Where Abacum fits
Runway you re-forecast as often as the science changes, planned week by week and board-ready.
Know what each program really costs, without a data team.
Scenarios around milestones and financing events on the live plan.
A budget that matches the GL, so budget versus actuals reconciles without mapping Excel to the ledger by hand.
AI Modeler. Describe the model you need in plain language, or bring the spreadsheet you already built, and get a working model in minutes. Add a program or a new variable by asking, even in models you inherited.
Governance. The agent proposes, the engine calculates and you approve. Nothing saves until you approve.
Included, not metered. No credits, no meter, no hidden fees.
We position Abacum on the finance layer, above your ledger. Spreadsheet users keep their flexibility: import a budget or forecast as a version and export platform work to a spreadsheet in Excel or Google Sheets.
Pigment is a flexible modeling platform for teams willing to build and maintain their own planning models. Your team or an implementation partner designs it and keeps it running, so confirm who will own the model after go-live.
