Alternatives
Fathom alternatives
Fathom is a management reporting platform that also builds a three-way forecast from your Xero or QuickBooks data, and is widely used by accounting firms. bluprnts builds the same statements from your operational drivers, starting from your website address rather than a ledger. Pick Fathom for reporting depth and multi-entity consolidation; pick bluprnts when there are no books to build on.
First — is Fathom actually the problem?
Switching costs time, so it's worth being clear about what you'd be giving up. Here's what Fathom does well:
- Management reporting is the product's centre of gravity: custom KPIs, benchmarking, divisional analysis on Xero tracking categories, and a large library of brandable report templates. bluprnts does none of that.
- Multi-entity consolidation at a scale we do not attempt. Fathom consolidates reporting and forecasting across a large number of entities, which matters enormously to a firm or a group and not at all to a single business.
- A three-way forecast that ties P&L, balance sheet and cash flow together, running years ahead, rather than a cash-only projection.
- Every figure drills down to its source, so it is auditable in the same spirit bluprnts aims for. Not a dimension where we are better, only one where we start from different source data.
- Long established in the Xero ecosystem and widely used by accounting firms. Your accountant may already know it, which can be worth more than any feature.
Stay with Fathom if Pick Fathom if reporting is the job. If you need polished management report packs, benchmarking, KPI dashboards and consolidated reporting across several entities or a portfolio of clients, Fathom does all of that properly and bluprnts does none of it. Pick it too if your books are clean and current and you want the forecast anchored to them, or if your accountant already works in it. Its Quick Start baseline needs at least three months of history before it will produce anything.
Where bluprnts fits
Pick bluprnts when the forecast has to exist before the accounting data does, or has to describe something the accounts have never seen. A pre-revenue company, a new venture, a new product line, a second site. The model is built from your products, prices, people, costs and financing, so nothing needs connecting first, and a decision you are weighing up is an input you change rather than an adjustment layered on a projection of history.
For the full feature-by-feature breakdown, see bluprnts vs Fathom.