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About Ayspire
Ayspire helps finance leaders close the gap between strategy and execution, bringing together EPM and ERP expertise with hands-on advisory to connect data, align teams, and turn finance transformation into tangible business performance.
With deep experience in the EPM and ERP space, Ayspire serves clients across Financial Services, Manufacturing, Technology, Consumer & Retail, Media & Entertainment, and Pharmaceuticals in North America and Asia, helping enterprises design connected planning models, accelerate financial close, and build driver-based profitability frameworks.
Why This Partnership
Ayspire works with finance teams that have outgrown their current planning processes. Organizations still heavily reliant on spreadsheets or a legacy EPM tool that isn't keeping pace with the business, and that don't yet have the internal capacity to drive a transformation on their own.
These are exactly the teams that benefit most from Drivetrain’s AI-native business planning capabilities helps finance teams build integrated plans, budgets, and forecasts, track progress against targets, and surface insights across the business. With 850+ integrations, powerful multi dimensional modeling, and fast onboarding (most teams are live in eight to ten weeks), Drivetrain complements the enterprise planning foundation that Ayspire builds for its clients.
Ayspire's deep finance transformation expertise across various EPM systems, combined with Drivetrain's AI-native planning engine, creates a partnership that delivers end-to-end strategic and technological value, helping finance leaders move from complexity to clarity with confidence.
Together, Ayspire and Drivetrain will help finance teams:
- Move from periodic to continuous planning — with real-time data syncs and AI-powered forecasting that keep plans current as the business moves
- Connect financial planning to operational drivers — bridging the gap between FP&A, sales, workforce planning, etc.
- Accelerate time-to-value — combining Ayspire's implementation expertise with Drivetrain's fast deployment model to get teams productive quickly
- Extend the value of existing EPM investments — layering Drivetrain's AI-native capabilities on top of the platforms Ayspire's clients already use
What This Means for Finance Teams
For CFOs and finance leaders working with Ayspire, this partnership means access to a AI-native planning platform purpose-built for how modern finance teams actually work: collaborative, real-time, and deeply integrated with the systems they already rely on.
For Ayspire's delivery team, it means a new tool in their arsenal: one that's fast to implement, flexible enough to model any business, and backed by a team that consistently ranks #1 on G2's Relationship Index for FP&A.
"We've seen firsthand how finance teams struggle with fragmented data and planning cycles that can't keep pace with the business — spending more time reconciling spreadsheets, enhancements and adjustments in aging legacy systems than driving strategy. Drivetrain gives our clients an AI-native planning platform that connects their enterprise data landscape and turns planning into a real-time capability. Together, we can accelerate the kind of finance transformation that creates enduring impact — from system implementation all the way to strategic performance." — Roshin Rasheed, CEO, Ayspire
Looking Ahead
This partnership is just the beginning. Ayspire and Drivetrain will be collaborating on joint enablement, co-marketing, and go-to-market initiatives to bring AI-native planning to finance teams across North America and Asia.
If you're a finance leader looking to modernize your planning capabilities, or an Ayspire client curious about what Drivetrain can add to your stack, we'd love to talk.
Frequently asked questions
Billable hours are an absolute number—the total hours billed to clients in a period. Utilization is a rate, that is, billable hours as a percentage of available hours. Both measure client work, but utilization is far more useful for benchmarking and planning because it accounts for the size of your team and the time available.
There are three categories of available hours:
- Paid hours, that is, total hours in the period
- Working hours, that is, paid hours minus company holidays
- Net available hours, that is, working hours minus PTO and planned non-billable time
Each category not only provides a different utilization rate from the same billable output, but also different signals for decision-making.
Start with contracted hours, then subtract actual company holidays and expected PTO. Since sick time is unpredictable and typically averages out across the firm over time, it should not be subtracted upfront. Bench time should remain within the utilization metric instead of being deducted from capacity; doing so masks underutilization rather than surfacing it. Lastly, since different roles have different non-billable obligations, it is crucial to build your capacity model at the role level and then take it up to the team and firm levels.
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