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Break free from repetitive reporting.
Finance teams still spend huge amounts of time pulling data from multiple systems, running manual analyses, and drafting commentary. Outliers must be chased down, ad-hoc questions trigger new extracts, and under time pressure, insights can be shallow and inconsistent. Too much effort goes into describing the past instead of anticipating the future.
PwC’s Talk to Your Data changes this. By combining generative AI, advanced analytics, and conversational interfaces, it lets users interact with their data in natural language. Standard reports are enriched with AI-generated commentary, which drafts narratives on outliers, drivers, and KPI movements. Controllers simply validate and refine the text before publishing. For one-off requests, just ask and the system retrieves the relevant data, disaggregates KPIs, and returns dynamic visualisations with narrative insights.
The outcome: quicker reporting cycles, reliable commentary, and more time for forward-looking work.
Introducing PwC’s Talk to Your Data
Talk to Your Data is a self-service solution that transforms how finance teams engage with data and reporting. Instead of static decks and manual write-ups, teams can simply ask questions in plain language – for example: “Show me the revenue gap between plan and forecast over the last 10 years by product segment and explain this year’s deviation.” The solution instantly retrieves the data, analyses the drivers, and produces a clear, human-like commentary draft.
Auto-commenting enriches standard reports with AI-generated explanations of KPI movements, while custom prompts enable expert-style recommendations – such as: “Suggest actions to improve margins in the next two quarters.” Behind the scenes, generative AI creates the narrative, and interactive drill-downs provide context, outlier detection, and root cause analysis.
Together, these capabilities transform reporting into an interactive process – and commentary into an automated, ready-to-use draft.
Our auto-commenting feature generates instant commentary, so finance teams can focus on decisions, not descriptions.
Peter KepplerDirector Finance Transformation, PwC SwitzerlandOur services
PwC’s Talk to Your Data offering combines conversational analytics with auto-commenting to streamline reporting and deliver real-time insights.
Automated pre-commentary for standard reports
With auto-commenting, AI generates draft commentary on KPI movements, highlighting outliers and trends. Controllers validate and refine the text, saving hours of manual write-up time.
Conversational analysis for ad-hoc requests
Users ask questions in natural language – from revenue variances to risk forecasts. The system retrieves, analyses, and visualises the data instantly, delivering both quantitative and qualitative insights.
Custom prompts for expert recommendations
Beyond standard analysis, custom prompts allow users to derive structured recommendations, such as strategies to increase revenue or mitigate risks.
Dynamic drill-downs and root cause analysis
Interactive dashboards enable seamless exploration of KPI drivers, supporting deeper insights and consistent explanations.
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How Talk to Your Data drives value for your business
PwC’s Talk to Your Data delivers tangible benefits for your finance function:
- Faster, more consistent reporting with auto-commenting
- Major efficiency gains by freeing controllers from repetitive write-ups
- Enhanced accuracy and transparency through AI-powered narrative and drill-down analysis
- New insights and recommendations that go beyond expert opinion
- Self-service access to data, reducing reliance on IT and manual extraction
- An intuitive user experience that makes data interaction as simple as asking a question
In practice, this means less time spent compiling reports and more time shaping decisions – turning finance into a proactive partner for the business.
Why PwC for Talk to Your Data?
PwC combines finance expertise, generative AI capabilities, and implementation know-how to deliver reporting solutions that truly change how teams work. We have implemented intelligent automation and AI-driven reporting in organisations across industries – helping them cut reporting cycles, improve commentary quality, and gain new insights.
Our differentiator lies in connecting technology with real finance processes and governance needs. With PwC, Talk to Your Data becomes a trusted, secure, and scalable solution – not just another chatbot.
Ready to talk to your data?
Contact us to explore how PwC’s Talk to Your Data solution – with auto-commenting – can automate reporting, accelerate insights, and free your finance teams for higher-value work.
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Peter Keppler