Introducing First Cell Tess 2.5 — Autonomous Financial Analyst Powered by Ficells Labs

Finance Tools Show You What. Tess Shows You Why.

Agentic financial analyst that plans, queries, and reasons across your data before giving you an answer.
When a metric moves, it does not show you a chart it traces the exact cause and tells you what to fix.

What's wrong with your business?
Tess finds it in minutes.

Think

Reads every number across your business. Understands how each one connects to the rest.

Analyse

Revenue dropped 18%. Tess already knows why.

Investigate

14 churned accounts. Same cohort. Same acquisition channel.

Explain

Plain English. Ready for your next team meeting.

[00] USE CASES / UNDERSTAND YOUR BUSINESS

The Agentic Analyst That Already Knows the Answer. Before you open a spreadsheet, before you pull a report, before you even know something is wrong. Tess has already traced it, explained it, and surfaced what to do next.

You have the questions. Tess has the answers.

  • "Which acquisition channel from this quarter is producing customers with healthy LTV today, and how does it compare to spend?" Such complex answers used to take days.
  • Tess finds them in seconds from your data. Any combination. Any depth. No formula to write. No analyst to brief. Ask Tess directly for the truth.
Explore metrics →

Every number change has a cause. Tess finds it.

  • When revenue, costs, or profit shifts, Tess automatically traces the change back to the exact driver — no manual dashboard investigation required.
  • See exactly what changed, where it happened, and how much it impacted your business.
See root cause →

Track the real impact of every dollar.

  • Tess analyzes where every dollar you spent actually created value or not.
  • It can prove that a campaign from six months ago is still driving profitable customers today, while another that looked successful actually produced low-value churned users.
Track impact →

Forecast the Future. Test Your Decisions.

  • Automatically forecasts the financial impact of hiring, marketing spend, churn, and revenue growth — projecting runway, burn rate, and cash position as your business evolves.
  • Test major decisions before you make them. Cut marketing by 15% or hire three engineers, and Tess instantly projects how CAC, pipeline growth, revenue, and cash runway will change.
See forecast →

Your finance team finds out about overspend on day 29. Tess finds it on day 3.

  • Most companies find budget overspend after the month ends. Tess monitors salaries and marketing in real time against your plan.
  • When spending diverges, Tess surfaces the exact line item, magnitude, and impact. You need a reason, not just an alert. Tess gives both.
See budget tracking →

Every metric you track is a summary.
Tess reads everything underneath it.

No analyst. No software. No limits. Tess goes deeper than any mind or machine, revealing the hidden truths of your business before the questions even start.

You see CAC. Tess sees the real performance of every dollar you spend. What is the true cost to acquire a customer? How fast is that money actually coming back into your bank? Which marketing channels are paying for themselves, and which are just expensive? Tess audits your growth with the precision of a full finance team.

You see LTV. Tess sees the long-term health of your customer base. Which groups of customers are staying with you the longest? Which acquisition months are the most profitable over time? Tess exposes the patterns in your retention that simple spreadsheets hide for years.

Tess creates board-ready, investor-grade reports.
Formatted. Personalized. Ready to present.

Your team meeting is in one hour. You need a P&L, a variance analysis, and an MRR bridge — Tess generates all of it in seconds, with live numbers and narrative context.

P&L Report
MRR Bridge

The hours you used to spend building it? Now it's a conversation.

[08] TESS IDENTITY / YOUR CFO HAS AN EMAIL ADDRESS

Tess Has a Work Email.

Send your general ledger, bank export, CRM data, or payroll sheet whether you are mid-flight, on the metro, or between back-to-back calls.
Tess reads the attachment, normalises the data, classifies every transaction, understands the context, and replies with the analysis.
If something is missing, Tess asks. The conversation continues in your inbox.

[09] LIVE ALERTS / YOUR RULES. TESS WATCHES.

Your first alert arrived before you opened your laptop.

  • Tell Tess to alert you when your budget variance is more than 10%, when marketing spend spikes, or when your burn rate increases unexpectedly.
  • Tess monitors around the clock. The moment something crosses your line, you are notified on email or in the app with the root cause already attached.
Burn Rate crossed threshold
Engineering up 18% · Triggered 6:14 AM
EmailIn-AppRoot cause attached
MRR dropped below growth target
2 churned accounts this week · Triggered 11:30 PM
In-AppBreakdown ready
Runway back above 14 months
After November collections · Triggered 8:02 AM
Email
[10] WITH EXCEL / WITH TESS / THE TESS DIFFERENCE

Stop opening spreadsheets just to figure out what's happening in your business.

Every minute spent digging through rows and tabs is a minute you could spend actually fixing the problem.

For early stage SaaS companies where every decision is make or break.

0%
Of FP&A automated
0+
Hours saved per month
10 min
From connect to first answer
Excel/Sheets Tess
Built for SaaS metrics
MRR, NRR, CAC, Churn, Rule of 40, Payback
Manual setup

build every formula yourself

Automated

not just calculated. explained, connected, and put in context

Always watching 24/7
without being asked
Manual check

you have to open it yourself

24/7 Monitoring

active alerts for any anomalies

Tells you WHY
Root cause of every change explained
Surface level

you figure it out from sheets

Root Cause

tells you which metric caused it and by how much

Knows what's coming
run the numbers before you make the call
Static

you rebuild it every quarter

Live Projection

100 probabilistic scenarios run against your real data

Budget vs Actuals
catches overspend before month end
Found late

you discover it during monthly close

Flagged early

alerted the moment a category exceeds plan

Connects all tools
QuickBooks + Mixpanel + Google Analytics + LinkedIn B2B Ads
Siloed

manual export + VLOOKUP

Unified

all tools synced into one source

Automated board reports
With narrative, not just charts
Manual reports

3–5 days manual work each month

Instant AI narrative

automated board-ready commentary

Ask it anything
Natural language query
Limited

Copilot = $30/user add-on

Native AI

deep intelligence at your fingertips

Setup time
Days

blank file from zero

Minutes
Start working with Tess
[12] PRICING / CHOOSE YOUR PLAN
Pricing

Simple, Transparent Pricing

Choose the plan that works best for you. Upgrade or downgrade at any time.

Starter

Perfect for early-stage teams exploring agentic finance.

$240 /month
  • Full access to all features
  • 450 AI queries / month
  • Email support
  • Community access
Get Started
Popular

Growth

For teams scaling their finance ops and workflows.

$310 /month
  • Full access to all features
  • 800 AI queries / month
  • Priority support
  • Advanced analytics
Subscribe

Enterprise

For organizations that need full scale and control.

$435 /month
  • Full access to all features
  • 1,600 AI queries / month
  • Dedicated onboarding
  • SLA guarantee
Contact Sales
[13] FAQ / COMMON QUESTIONS

Frequently asked questions.

Reach us at hello@ficellslabs.com and you will hear back from a real person who knows the product deeply. We are a small team and that is intentional. No bots. No ticket queues. No copy-paste responses. Every conversation you have with us is with someone who genuinely cares about your outcome and can actually help.

We built everything ourselves. Tess runs on our own semantic data models, causal stack, and an optimised forecasting engine. The moment your data arrives, our semantic ingestion layer reads every transaction and categorises it by type, department, cash behaviour, and strategic intent. Nothing is a raw number inside Tess. Everything is understood. That depth of comprehension is what makes root cause analysis, probabilistic forecasting, and complex financial reasoning possible without expensive third-party infrastructure. Early-stage companies now get the same financial intelligence that enterprise teams spend years building.

Tess is built for real-world data, not perfect data. It validates what it receives, flags anomalies at ingestion, and tells you clearly what it knows and what it does not. It will never hallucinate a number to fill a gap. If it cannot answer with confidence, it tells you exactly what data would help it answer better.

We do not offer a self-serve trial. Instead, we run a live demo directly on your data so you can see Tess working on your actual finance stack, not a sandbox. Book a 30-minute call and we will connect your tools, run a live analysis, and you will leave with a clear picture of what Tess can do for your specific business.

Connected and running in under 10 minutes. Just connect your finance stack and Ficells does the rest automatically.

No. Tess works on an optimised engine that learns from whatever data you have from day one. Even 2 months of history is enough to generate meaningful forecasts and answers.

Not at all. Tess explains everything in plain language. Built for founders who hate spreadsheets as much as finance teams who are tired of them.

Those tools are mirrors. They reflect your data back to you and then step aside. You still have to find the pattern, form the hypothesis, and dig for the answer. Tess is not a mirror. It is an analyst. The moment your numbers move, Tess tells you what changed, traces it to the specific driver behind it, and surfaces what you should watch next. No tab switching. No formula writing. No waiting. Looker gives you a dashboard. QuickBooks gives you a ledger. Tess gives you an answer. That is not a UI difference. That is a fundamentally different category of product.

Your data belongs to you. It never touches anyone else's pipeline, it is never used to train any model, and it is never shared with any third party. Every connection is encrypted in transit and at rest. Your data is isolated at the row level. Even our own team cannot access your data without explicit controls in place. We built the security layer with the understanding that financial data is the most sensitive data a company holds. You do not need a compliance team or a security audit to trust us with it. We made that decision for you.

Yes. Tess is built on a proprietary multi-step agent reasoning protocol that plans, queries, and reasons across your specific history—not industry averages. It learns from your customer segments, pricing structures, and acquisition channels to autonomously handle advanced questions like causal attribution and multi-variable scenario modeling. In edge cases where it cannot answer with full confidence, it tells you exactly what it knows and what additional data would unlock a complete answer. It will never guess or fill a gap with a made-up number.

Yes. You can invite your finance team and co-founders directly. Everyone works from the same live data with no version conflicts.

The vanguard of founders replacing spreadsheets with an autonomous financial analyst.

Your Numbers Moved This Week.
Something Changed.

You haven't had time to figure out what. Connect in 10 minutes.
Tess will already have the answer.