The UI Layer Is Gone: Welcome to Agentic FP&A | Austin Gardner-Smith, Drivepoint

AI is changing FP&A from a tool-assisted workflow into something closer to an operating system for business planning.

In this episode of Terminal Value, Nik Singh sits down with Austin Gardner-Smith, Founder & CEO of Drivepoint, to discuss why financial planning and forecasting are especially critical in consumer, retail, and CPG businesses.

The conversation covers why forecasting can be “life or death” when inventory, cash flow, and margins are on the line; why vertical software may beat horizontal FP&A tools; how AI changes the value proposition of SaaS; and what happens to finance teams as software moves from organizing work to actually doing the work.

Drivepoint is building agentic planning software for consumer and retail brands, helping teams connect data across Shopify, Amazon, retailers, ERP systems, inventory systems, and finance workflows.

Topics covered:

* FP&A software
* Vertical AI
* Agentic planning
* Retail and CPG forecasting
* Inventory planning
* Strategic finance
* Office of the CFO
* SaaS pricing models
* AI and finance jobs
* Data quality and context layers
* Drivepoint

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