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Pigment

FINANCE
Velocity5.0

Hardening change management for enterprise planning — granular and local Test and Deploy with deployable User Groups.

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◆Current state
Pigment has spent the last month tightening the deployment story for its enterprise planning platform: granular deployment to push specific changes (not whole environments), local deployment to test inside a Workspace using temporary Application copies, and User Groups now flowing through Test and Deploy with their access assignments. Modeling-side tooling has caught up too — bulk Dimension substitution across Applications, frozen columns in the grid, and contextual BY-formula hover hints. Just outside the 6-entry window, the Modeler Agent and Claude Code/Cursor plugins set the directional tone.
◆Where it's heading
Two parallel arcs are visible: AI-assisted model construction (Modeler Agent, scheduled Analyst Agent missions, IDE plugins) is widening the on-ramp for new model authors, while the Test and Deploy pipeline is maturing into something resembling proper software CI/CD — enterprise FP&A has historically been weak here, and Pigment is closing the gap. The cluster of releases on or around April 21–28 suggests a coordinated platform release, not just steady-state polish.
◆Prediction
Expect the Modeler Agent to expand into Application-level scaffolding (full model from a brief, not just templates) and the deployment pipeline to gain CI integration and scheduled deploys. The Claude Code/Cursor plugin pattern will likely lead to a public Pigment SDK or programmable model API for IDE-driven workflows.

◆Recent moves

  1. 23d ago

    🎉 Scale model changes with bulk Dimension substitution

    Bulk Dimension substitution lets modelers replace many Dimensions at once with autofill matching across Applications, including importing Templates from the Hub and bulk-swapping into an existing model. Removes a real bottleneck in multi-Application model maintenance.

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  2. 26d ago

    🎉 User Groups now supported in Test and Deploy

    User Groups can now be deployed through granular deployment — access assignments travel with the group, but user assignments stay environment-specific. Dependencies on required Applications are resolved automatically. Closes a long-standing gap where access management had to be recreated manually in Production.

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  3. 28d ago

    📣 Local deployment: bring Test and Deploy to Application workflows

    Local deployment lets teams sync multiple Applications inside the same Workspace, use temporary Application copies to test in isolation, and deploy only the slice that needs to change. Brings something close to a feature-branch workflow to Pigment for the first time.

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  4. 1mo ago

    🎉 Freeze columns in your grid

    Frozen columns in the grid, including grouped-column freeze. A small but persistently-requested grid ergonomics feature that any spreadsheet-native FP&A user expects out of the box.

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  5. 1mo ago

    🎉 Understand your BY formula's behavior in one hover

    Hover hints on BY formula keywords now explain Dimension behaviour inline — showing aggregation vs allocation, replaced Dimensions, and warnings for formulas that might produce unexpected results. A targeted improvement for the kind of advanced formula authoring where Pigment's flexibility historically created footguns.

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  6. 1mo ago

    📣 Granular deployment: deploy with greater precision

    Granular deployment lets customers move specific changes from one environment to another with surfaced dependencies, instead of pushing whole-environment promotions. The foundational primitive on which the User Groups and local deployment releases build.

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