Built from the roots
Not black boxes configured by a consultant. Each blueprint is an ordinary Novi model: the structure is visible, and the lineage reads at a glance.
The Commons
A working model the week you sign.
Working models, a shared vocabulary, and data connections, ready on day one. Every asset in the Commons is built by Novi from the same three blocks you build with: dictionaries, tables, and links. Open them. Read them. Change them. They are yours.
What's inside
· Why start here
Most teams should start from a working model, not a blank canvas.
The industry has normalised three-to-six-month implementations. The Commons is how a serious model starts the week you sign, not the quarter after.
Correctness inherited
Sound structure is inherited rather than invented: fewer mistakes to make, and easier ones to catch when you do.
A day, not a quarter
Open a blueprint, point it at your data, and a serious model is running, the week you sign, not the quarter after.
01· Blueprints
Working models
Pre-built models, built to be opened.
Models for the planning problems most finance teams share, and for the industries Novi is built for. Each one is a real Novi model. Start from it rather than a blank canvas. Anything not yet ready is marked.
Model
Three-Statement Core
Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow linked end to end, ready to extend. The canvas a Novi model usually grows out from.
Model
Headcount & Workforce Plan
Hiring planned by role, team and start date: fully-loaded cost, ramp and attrition flowing straight into the P&L.
Model
13-Week Cash Flow
A direct weekly cash forecast: receipts, disbursements and rolling liquidity, reconciled back to the plan.
Model
SaaS Revenue & ARR
An ARR bridge by cohort (new, expansion, contraction and churn) driving billings and deferred revenue.
Model
Driver-Based Revenue Plan
Revenue from the drivers that move it: volume × price by product and channel, straight into the plan. The counterpart to ARR for businesses that aren't subscription.
Model
Manufacturing Cost & Margin
Bill of materials to unit cost to gross margin: standard costs, variances and volumes carried through to the statements.
Model
Services Revenue & Utilization
Billable hours, rates and utilization by team and project: revenue and project margin, with the bench in view. For services firms run across several entities.
Model
Long-Range Plan
A three-to-five-year view built on the same drivers as the budget, not a spreadsheet living off to the side.
Model
Board & Investor Reporting Pack
Dashboards and Stories that turn the model into a board read, narrated by CLARA. Limited next to a full BI suite, enough for the pack.
Model
Demand Planning
Volume and price by product and channel, feeding both revenue and supply. Sample data included so it runs on open.
Model
Opex Monthly Reforecast
A standing monthly reforecast: actuals in, forecast updated, variance explained. The rhythm of the month, not a rebuild.
Model
Capex Initiatives & Projects
Projects and initiatives with phasing, depreciation and the cash they consume: capital planning that ties back to the statements.
Model
DCF Valuation
Free cash flow, discounting and terminal value: a valuation that reads end to end, with the logic on the surface.
Model
Management Consolidation
Multi-entity roll-up with intercompany eliminations and currency translation, built on dictionaries and D-Tables, no ledger required. Management consolidation, not statutory close.
Model
M&A Model
Acquisition modelling: purchase price, accretion and dilution, synergies and financing. Delivered first as the fixed-scope M&A Burst.
Coming soon
02· Dictionaries
A shared vocabulary
The standard ground you don't have to type out.
Dictionaries are one of Novi's three blocks: they encode the vocabulary a model reasons in. The Commons ships reference dictionaries: standard ground you can attach to any model without building it from scratch.
Accounts & statements
- IFRS Chart of AccountsAn IFRS-aligned chart of accounts: the account structure most groups start from, there to adopt or adapt.
- Group Consolidation AccountsA consolidation account structure for group reporting: intercompany, eliminations and adjustments, ready to map.
- Sample Financial StatementsIncome statement, balance sheet and cash flow account sets: a working statement structure to model around.
Reference dimensions
- Countries & StatesISO country and region lists: geography to attach to any model without typing it out.
- CurrenciesISO 4217 currencies: the dimension every multi-entity and FX model begins from.
- ScenariosA standard scenario set (Actuals, Budget, Forecast, Reforecast, what-if) the version dimension planning runs on.
- Units of MeasureCommon units (quantities, weights, volumes, time) for demand, manufacturing and operational models.
These are reference vocabulary, not your business. The dimensions specific to your organisation (your entities, cost centres, products) live in your own model, where they belong. The Commons gives you the shared, standard ground to build on.
03· Connectors
Your data, in
Connect your data without a connector zoo.
Novi connects to your data without asking you to maintain dozens of brittle integrations: cover most teams with files and warehouses, add reference data, then build native integrations one at a time.
Working draft · catalogue not yet finalFiles
CSV works well, and Excel is close behind. Pre-mapped templates accept the exports finance teams already produce.
CSV
Excel
Trial balance
General ledger
DATEV (DACH)
Database & warehouse
Direct connections to the warehouse a mid-market data team already runs. The backend makes this a short path, not a project.
PostgreSQL
Snowflake
BigQuery
Market & reference data
The macro series most plans assume, kept current, starting with FX, with inflation and rates alongside.
FX rates
Inflation: CPI / HICP
Interest rates
Financial & ERP systems
Import templates mapped to the common systems first. Broader coverage through a unified API, with native connectors built deliberately over time.
Xero
Sage
QuickBooks
NetSuite
Dynamics
Three layers, in the order worth building them. First, pre-mapped import templates for trial balance, general ledger and DATEV: most mid-market teams, almost no engineering. Second, warehouse connections, which the backend makes inexpensive. Third, a unified accounting API to reach NetSuite, QuickBooks, Dynamics and others through a single integration rather than thirty brittle ones. Native, per-system connectors come last, each built only when it earns its place.
· What's coming
What isn't here yet.
Naming this plainly is part of how Novi works. The Commons grows in sequence, and each addition ships only when it meets the same bar as everything already in it.
- Later Statutory Consolidation: the ledger-based sibling of Management Consolidation, for the close rather than the management view.
- In progress A fuller connector catalogue, built out from the draft above, one system at a time rather than as a launch-day list.
- In time Community-contributed blueprints, reviewed and vouched by Novi. Today, everything in the Commons is built by us.
Every plan opens the whole Commons. Blueprints, Connectors and Templates, all the Common Assets, come with every plan; there is no per-tier limit on how many you use. What varies is how an asset is priced, not which plan you are on.
Most assets
Free
Included with every plan, at no extra cost.
Premium
Standard price
A single published price, the same whichever plan you are on.
Custom-built
Individually priced
When we build an asset for your business, it is quoted per engagement.
A working model the week you sign. Yes, you can.
The Commons opens with the platform on September 1, 2026. Early-adopter seats are open now. Tell us about your team and we'll get you in.