Pigment Alternative
Connected planning that goes beyond the spreadsheet, and beyond finance.
Pigment plans the numbers. Forest connects them to the teams, roadmaps, and decisions delivering them.
Why COOs choose Forest over Pigment
Pigment is a powerful financial planning tool built for finance teams. It models budgets, forecasts spend, and runs scenarios, and it does that well. But it stops at the financial layer. There’s no roadmap, no capacity plan, no initiative tracking, no governance workflow. The moment a number changes in Pigment, someone still has to manually figure out what that means for the teams delivering the work.
Where Forest goes further
Forest connects the financial plan to the execution layer. When a strategic priority shifts, the impact on capacity, budget, and delivery is visible immediately, without leaving the platform.
Strategy meets execution
Pigment models your financial plan. Forest connects it to the initiatives, milestones, and teams delivering it. Every objective has a budget, a capacity allocation, and a live delivery status, in one place.
Built for the COO, not just the CFO
Pigment is designed for finance teams and FP&A professionals. Forest is built for the COO who needs strategy, capacity, and finance connected, without needing a dedicated financial modeller to run it.
Live in days, not months
No implementation fees, no model-building team required. Forest’s guided onboarding gets your strategy, capacity, and financial plan connected, without the weeks of configuration that Pigment and Anaplan require.
Compare Forest vs Pigment
Every capability, side by side, so you can make the right decision.
| Capability | Forest | Pigment |
|---|
Strategic planning
| Strategic objectives & themes |  | |
| Scenario planning | | |
| Issue-to-strategy mapping | | — |
| Initiative & roadmap management | | — |
| Timeline & Gantt view | | — |
| OKR support | | — |
| One platform subscription | | — |
Capacity & resources
| Cross-team capacity planning | | — |
| Resource-to-strategy alignment | | — |
| Capacity heatmaps | | — |
| Employment type management | | — |
| Predictive demand modelling | | — |
Financial planning
| Live budget forecasting | | |
| Budget variance analysis | | |
| Multi-currency | | |
| Real-time re-forecasting | | — |
Governance
| Initiative review & approval workflow | | — |
| Full decision audit trail | | — |
AI
| Agentic AI planning | Soon | |
Platform
| No implementation fees | | — |
| Guided onboarding | | — |
| Unlimited free viewers | | — |
| SSO / SAML | | |
| API access | | |
Great businesses don’t run on disconnected plans
Discover how Forest connects strategy, capacity, and finance into one living platform, and what that means for the way you lead.