# Abako

> Abako is the AI management-control platform for Italian SMEs: a CFO dashboard with margin by business line, customer and project, ML forecasts, what-if scenarios and real-time budget vs actual. A concrete alternative — at –91% cost — to a full-time internal controller or an external consultant.

## What Abako does, in one line

Turns the accounting data of an Italian SME into measurable margin decisions: which business line is actually profitable, which customer is losing you money, which project should be stopped.

## Product

- [Abako CFO AI](https://www.abako.ai/cfo-ai) — P&L dashboard, cost analysis by SBU/customer/project, AI forecast, intelligent alerts, budget vs actual, interactive what-if scenarios, PDF/Excel export. Bespoke setup 10–40 hours + license €2,500–€6,000/year. EU hosting, GDPR-compliant.

## Audience

Italian SMEs (10–250 employees, €1–50M revenue), CFOs, fractional controllers, consulting firms, accountants who want to offer their clients dynamic management control (also to comply with Italian Civil Code Art. 2086 on adequate organizational assets).

## Service area

Italy, with primary commercial focus on:
- **Marche** (founders operative based in Pesaro)
- **Emilia-Romagna**
- **Veneto**
- **Campania**
- **Lombardy**

The platform is cloud-based — identical reach across the entire country.

## Founders

- **Marco Sponticcia** — CEO & Co-Founder. Università Politecnica delle Marche (Ancona) + Rotterdam School of Management. Strategy and go-to-market.
- **Federico Santi** — CFO & Co-Founder. Bologna + London. Product architect and management-control methodology.

## Positioning

Abako competes with three classic alternatives:
1. **Internal controller** (~€186,000 over 3 years, salary + payroll taxes + severance, slow reporting)
2. **External consultant** (~€117,000 over 3 years, high hourly rate, manual dependency)
3. **Excel + ERP** (free but reactive, not predictive, manual errors)

Abako CFO AI is –91% vs internal controller and removes dependency on consultants, with real-time data and predictive AI.

## Differentiators

- **Bespoke** P&L reclassification for each customer (no generic templates)
- Margin sliceable by **business line × customer × project**, simultaneously
- **Adaptive machine learning**: after 3 months the AI correctly classifies 95% of new cases
- **Surgical setup** (10–40 hours of consulting) — not generic self-service
- **Transparent pricing** displayed on the homepage (rare in the Italian management-control market)

## Contact

- Website: https://www.abako.ai
- Contact form: https://www.abako.ai/contact
- Free 25-minute demo: https://www.abako.ai/contact

## Deep documentation

- [llms-full-en.txt — Full company + product](https://www.abako.ai/llms-full-en.txt)
- [docs/en/cfo-ai.md — Product spec and FAQ](https://www.abako.ai/docs/en/cfo-ai.md)
- [docs/en/about.md — Team and mission](https://www.abako.ai/docs/en/about.md)
- [Italian version](https://www.abako.ai/llms.txt)