Management reporting commentary
Writing the commentary is the part of reporting that gets done late at night. This agent drafts it from the numbers finance has already signed off, in the structure your pack uses, with each figure pointing back to where it came from. The finance lead edits and approves before the pack goes anywhere.
Step by step
Take the signed-off numbers
The agent works only from the approved reporting workbook for the period, not from drafts still in progress.
Read last period's pack
It picks up the structure, headings and phrasing your readers are used to, so the pack stays comparable from month to month.
Draft the movements section
Each section is drafted describing what moved and against what, with the sheet or table behind every figure cited.
Pull the existing explanations
Where a note, ticket or thread already explains a movement, the explanation is quoted and linked rather than invented.
Mark what is unexplained
Movements with no supporting explanation are flagged as open in the draft, so finance chases them before the reader finds them.
The finance lead approves
The finance lead edits the commentary and approves the pack. Nothing is circulated before that happens.
Exactly what this agent can see, touch and change
The same five controls sit behind every Askollo agent. These are this one's settings — visible before you build it, not buried in an admin screen afterwards.
Context
What reaches the modelFinance leads and FP&A teams producing a monthly pack for management, especially where the same commentary is rewritten from a blank page every period.
Escalation
When it asks a personThe finance lead approves the commentary before the pack is circulated
Applications & Rights
Which tools it uses, and what it may do in each
SharePointRead only
NotionRead only
Google DriveReadWrites newCreates new records or documents. Never edits, moves or deletes anything that was already there.Verification
How you know it’s rightEvery claim links to the document it came from. A statement the agent cannot cite does not make it into the output — which is what makes the result reviewable in minutes rather than re-read end to end.
Who it’s for
Finance leads and FP&A teams producing a monthly pack for management, especially where the same commentary is rewritten from a blank page every period.
What you’ll need
- An approved reporting workbook
- Last period's pack for structure
- An agreed materiality for commentary
- A finance lead to approve
What you get
- Drafted commentary in your pack structure
- A citation for each figure used
- A list of unexplained movements
What it doesn’t do
It writes about numbers you have already approved. It does not calculate results, adjust figures, or decide what is material, and it will not explain a movement your connected sources do not explain.
We build the first one with you
Not a template you configure alone. We sit with your team, build it on real data, and hand over the controls.
Scope
One session with the people who actually do the work. We agree what the agent reads, what it may write, and who approves.
Co-build
Built on your own data, not a sandbox. You watch it being made, so you know why it behaves the way it does.
Handover
You own the controls. Change the context, tighten the rights, move the approval gate — without coming back to us.
Parts of the work currently spread across the categories below. It does not replace any of those products outright.
Frequently asked
Does it produce the numbers?
No. It reads the workbook you have signed off and writes about it. If the numbers change, you rerun the draft. Keeping the calculation in your own model is deliberate: the audit trail stays where your reviewers expect to find it.
How do we know a figure in the text is right?
Every figure is cited to the sheet, cell or table it came from, so a reviewer clicks through and checks. Anything the agent could not tie to a source is left out of the draft and listed separately.
Can it match our house style?
Yes. It takes the structure and phrasing from your previous packs, and the finance lead's edits at approval feed the next draft. Where you have a written style guide, we connect it during the co-build.
What if a movement has no explanation anywhere?
It marks the movement as unexplained rather than reaching for a plausible reason. That list is often the most useful part of the draft, because it is exactly what management will ask about.