Case Study: Starburst Achieves Fast What-If Analysis with Pigment

How Starburst enabled powerful what-if analysis by creating a single source of truth for headcount

Starburst, a technology company with 501–1000 employees, turned to Pigment to improve its FP&A processes, especially headcount planning, OPEX planning, and P&L reporting. Its spreadsheet-based approach was hard to scale, lacked a single source of truth, and made it difficult to consolidate data from systems like Salesforce, NetSuite, UKG, and QuickBooks for reliable analysis.

With Pigment, Starburst built its cost and expense model in under two months and became autonomous in the platform quickly. Pigment gave the team a single source of truth, enabling fast what-if analysis, real-time scenario testing, and more confident decision-making; tasks that once took hours or days could now be done in minutes, including an urgent request completed in just 15 minutes.

Starburst

Nir Tropp

Director of FP&A