We left the big firms
because clients deserved better.
PlanFlamingo was built on a simple belief: the people who scope your project should be the people who build it — and they should have done it before. We are Anaplan and Pigment specialists with over a decade of combined enterprise implementation experience, no vendor agreements, and a delivery model built around senior expertise from day one.
The problem with big-firm planning implementations
Here's something most consulting firms won't tell you: when you hire a large consultancy for an Anaplan or Pigment implementation, the senior practitioners who sold you the engagement usually aren't the ones building your model. They hand the project to junior consultants who are learning the platform — and your business — for the first time. On your dime.
We know this because we saw it from the inside. Before founding PlanFlamingo, our team came up through large firms — doing Anaplan implementations at companies ranging from mid-market SaaS to enterprise orgs with $3 billion in revenue. We were good at what we did. But we watched the firms around us sell expertise they didn't always deliver.
We started PlanFlamingo because we knew we could do it better. Not bigger — better. Senior practitioners on every engagement, from scoping call to go-live. A team that has seen the same problems before and knows how to solve them without burning your timeline.
"The reason you get burned on implementation projects isn't the platform. It's the people — and whether the people actually know what they're doing before they start."
I founded PlanFlamingo after several years as an Anaplan implementation consultant at Slalom Consulting, a large professional services firm where I worked on enterprise planning projects across some of the most complex sales and finance organizations in the country. I was good at the work. I had a harder time watching how it got staffed.
My background is in industrial engineering and data analytics — disciplines that train you to understand systems end-to-end before you change anything. That foundation matters more in planning implementations than most people realize. Anaplan and Pigment models aren't just reports. They're interconnected systems where a single assumption change cascades across dozens of calculations. Understanding that architecture before you build it is the difference between a model that works and one that breaks the moment your comp plan changes.
I've been building in Anaplan since before Pigment existed. When Pigment emerged — with a data model designed for the modern cloud stack and a configuration layer that non-technical finance teams could actually own — we built that practice deliberately. Not because a vendor pushed us to. Because our clients started asking, and I wanted to give them an honest answer based on real experience in both platforms.
Today, PlanFlamingo has implemented both platforms at enterprise companies, migrated clients between them, and built planning systems across FP&A, Revenue Operations, commissions, and workforce. We've recommended Anaplan when it was the right fit and Pigment when it wasn't. The platform is a means to an end. The outcome is what matters.
Senior practitioners. Every engagement. No exceptions.
We don't run a bench of junior consultants learning on client projects. The person who scopes your work is the person who builds it — with the platform experience to back it up.
Senior-led from day one
You'll never be handed off. The practitioner who joins your scoping call is the same one building your model. No account managers in between. No junior analysts learning the platform for the first time on your project.
Platform-agnostic advice
We work with both Anaplan and Pigment — and we've migrated clients in both directions. Our recommendation is always based on what fits your situation. We've told clients to stay on Anaplan when that was the right answer. We've told clients not to migrate when the timing wasn't right. The platform is a means to an end.
A partner, not just a launch
Some clients want a clean handoff. Others want a long-term partner who keeps the model evolving as the business changes. We support both. Our managed services clients stay with us for years — not because they're locked in, but because having a dedicated planning partner is far better than starting from scratch every time something changes.
A few things we won't compromise on
Ready to talk about
your planning build?
A 30-minute call is enough to understand where you are, what you're trying to build, and whether we're the right fit. No pitch deck. No discovery questionnaire. Just a real conversation.
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