Continuous spend visibility for finance teams
Sphere’s Cost Intelligence AI sits on top of your ERP and spend systems, classifying every transaction, surfacing anomalies, and giving finance back the hours currently lost to data gathering. Integrated with your existing finance stack without replatforming.
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Finance is doing the wrong job
When finance teams spend the majority of their time pulling and validating data, the analysis CFOs actually need to act on never gets done. The result is reactive budgeting, late-cycle surprises, and the same inefficiencies showing up quarter after quarter.
1. Data gathering crowds out analysis
Accenture’s research puts FP&A time on data preparation as high as 85%, leaving 15% for the work that drives decisions. Top-quartile finance teams have closed this gap; most have not.
2. Hidden inefficiencies stay hidden
Duplicate vendor payments, off-contract spend, pricing drift, and unenforced policy exceptions sit invisible in the ledger. By the time a quarterly review surfaces them, the dollars are gone.
3. Manual reviews are too slow for current volatility
Spend patterns shift weekly. Quarterly cost reviews tell you what happened, not what’s happening. Finance needs a continuous view, not a rear-view mirror.
Outcomes
The strongest finance teams are moving from periodic spend reviews to continuous, AI-informed cost control. Sphere’s Cost Intelligence AI is built for this shift — putting analytical hours back in finance’s hands and surfacing the spend leaks that quarterly reviews miss.
Hours of analysis time recovered each week, per FP&A analyst
Off-contract and duplicate spend identified within days, not quarters
Cost center owners notified of anomalies in their budget in near real time
Documented savings pipeline tracked from identification through capture
Audit trail on every classification, override, and savings action
Use Cases
Mid-market manufacturing
Direct and indirect spend categorization across multiple plants and ERPs. Identifies maverick buying, duplicate vendor records, and contract-price drift. Typical first-year savings opportunity: 4–7% of indirect spend.
Healthcare systems
Clinical and non-clinical spend classification with HIPAA-compliant data handling. Surfaces GPO contract leakage, supply chain duplication, and physician preference item variance.
Professional services firms
T&E and software spend optimization across practice groups and geographies. Detects unused SaaS licenses, policy exceptions, and pricing inconsistencies between vendor contracts.
Multi-entity finance teams
Consolidated spend visibility across subsidiaries, currencies, and ERPs. Eliminates the manual reconciliation that nearly 40% of multi-entity finance teams lose a day per week to.
Enterprise retail chains
Category-level spend optimization across hundreds of stores and distribution centers. Identifies pricing inconsistencies between regional vendor contracts and consolidation opportunities across overlapping supplier relationships.
How it works: Sphere's 5-step deployment process
Discovery and ERP integration audit
Sphere's solution architects run a 2-week discovery: ERP and spend system inventory, API availability, chart of accounts mapping, and historical transaction sampling. Deliverable: a Cost Intelligence Integration Blueprint.
Data Ingestion & Model Training
Connect to ERP, expense, and procurement systems. Ingest 12–24 months of historical transactions. Custom classification models trained on your chart of accounts and category taxonomy.
Anomaly tuning and dashboard configuration
Anomaly thresholds calibrated to your spend patterns. Cost center dashboards configured to your reporting structure. Three rounds of finance team feedback before go-live.
Pilot Deployment (Human-in-the-Loop)
30-day supervised pilot on one business unit or category. Weekly review of detected anomalies and savings opportunities. Models refined based on finance team feedback before full rollout.
Full Rollout & Continuous Learning
Deployment across all cost centers and entities. Monthly model retraining as new transactions flow in. Quarterly business review with realized savings tracked against opportunity pipeline.
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ROI & business impact
4–7%
of indirect spend typically identified as recoverable in the first 12 months
60%+
reduction in finance team hours spent on month-end spend reconciliation
Days
Anomaly detection in days, not quarters — measured against the prior manual review cycle
<12 mo
ROI payback period: typically under 12 months on engagements above $250K
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Lee Ebreo
VP of Engineering at Credit Ninja
These things would not have been achievable if we did not build our own in-house system and if we did not partner with Sphere to help us achieve our goals.
Selah Ben-Haim
VP of Engineering at Prominence Advisors
Our experience with Sphere and their team has been and continues to be fantastic. We keep throwing new projects at them, and they keep knocking them out of the park (including the rescue of a project that was previously bungled by another vendor).
Ben Crawford
Senior Product Manager at Enova Financial
I would expect to be delighted. It's been a really positive experience, working with Sphere, and I would expect you to have the same.
Mark Friedgan
CEO at CreditNinja
Sphere consistently prioritizes the needs of their clients, demonstrating both agility and teamwork. As an offshore team, they have been an integral part of our organization and we plan to continue growing with them.
René Pfitzner
Co-Founder at Experify
Sphere provided excellent full-stack development manpower to augment our team and help push our product forward. They are easy to work with, tech-savvy and proactive.
Bruce Burdick
Chief Information Officer at Integra Credit
We've been working with Sphere and its excellent consultants since our founding. I've found that they are true partners in the success of our business.
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CEO at Dabble
The resources and developers that Sphere Software provides are skilled and have the required technical expertise, but more importantly, they have helped us build a culture of excellence within our team.
Arthur Tretyak
Founder and CEO at IntegraCredit
With Sphere, we were able to migrate in half the time it would take to train an additional FTE… and for a fraction of the cost. Our experience with Sphere has been exceptional.
Lee Ebreo
VP of Engineering at Credit Ninja
These things would not have been achievable if we did not build our own in-house system and if we did not partner with Sphere to help us achieve our goals.
Selah Ben-Haim
VP of Engineering at Prominence Advisors
Our experience with Sphere and their team has been and continues to be fantastic. We keep throwing new projects at them, and they keep knocking them out of the park (including the rescue of a project that was previously bungled by another vendor).
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