Anaplan Unveils AI Innovations to Advance Enterprise Decision-Making
AI / Machine Learning | 5 min read
Anaplan, the leading AI-driven scenario planning and analysis platform, announced a significant expansion of its AI capabilities on 25 March 2026 at its Miami event — unveiling the availability of Anaplan CoModeler, Custom Analyst, and Agent Studio, alongside the launch of 12 new purpose-built, out-of-the-box applications. Together, these innovations bring decades of deep domain expertise and predictive, generative, and agentic AI directly into key enterprise planning workflows — positioning Anaplan as the decision infrastructure enterprises can rely on to make better, faster decisions at scale. More than 2,600 global brands currently plan with Anaplan, including leading AI organisations such as AWS, Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, OpenAI, ServiceNow, and Salesforce.
"The mandate to adopt AI has created a new critical challenge for business decision-making: AI must do more than retrieve answers — it must compute them with precision and confidence. That is why we've architected our platform to be the computational engine that connects every operational choice to its financial outcome. This gives our customers the ability to see the full impact of a decision before they make it, allowing them to respond to market changes faster and capitalise on opportunities others can't see."
— Adam Thier, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Anaplan
Three New AI Innovations: CoModeler, Custom Analyst, and Agent Studio
Building on the introduction of intelligent role-based agents in December 2025, the March 2026 launch expands Anaplan's AI capabilities with three new offerings:
- • Anaplan CoModeler — an intelligent, role-based AI agent for the architects of enterprise planning. CoModeler turns natural language requests into structured models, logic, and calculations — allowing model builders to create, extend, and optimise planning models in minutes rather than days or weeks. It automates the development and deployment of complex logic with embedded best practices, adapts its guidance to specific industries, functions, and use cases, and strengthens governance by documenting every step of its process for transparency and consistency at scale
- • Anaplan Custom Analyst — a toolkit that allows customers to leverage generative, conversational AI to gain immediate insights from their custom-built models, reducing development time while ensuring full governance and control for deploying custom AI assistants tailored to unique business needs and workflows
- • Agent Studio — enables customers to build and deploy secure, fit-for-purpose AI agents by utilising Anaplan's embedded AI capabilities and bespoke planning workflows, giving organisations the ability to create custom AI analysts with the transparency and control required for enterprise-grade deployment
12 New Domain-Specific Applications
Alongside the new AI capabilities, Anaplan launched 12 new purpose-built, out-of-the-box applications — each grounded in decades of deep functional expertise and optimised for the age of AI. Two highlighted examples reflect the breadth of the portfolio: Project Cost Planning, which connects project spending directly to financial strategy with real-time visibility into budgets, timelines, and resource allocation; and Sales Forecasting, which enables accurate, intelligent go-to-market forecasts with dynamic scenario modelling and real-time pipeline visibility to drive predictable, repeatable revenue performance.
"Our applications are optimised for the age of AI and based on decades of deep functional expertise. Each application reflects the complex relationships and trade-offs that define how modern businesses operate. By combining domain expertise and AI, we give our customers more than insights — we give them a clear path to making fast, informed, and effective decisions."
— EJ Tavella, EVP and GM of Integrated Business Applications, Anaplan
The Platform Architecture: LLMs + Deterministic Planning Engine
Anaplan's technical differentiation lies in how it combines the conversational access and reasoning power of large language models (LLMs) with a deterministic planning engine — promoting accurate, traceable, and auditable calculations that go beyond what pure LLM-based tools can guarantee. Built on proven machine learning, explicit business logic, and real-time calculation models, the platform delivers precise, reliable insights rather than probabilistic approximations. Because Anaplan is deeply integrated across enterprise systems and workflows, it continuously generates proprietary scenario data — a structural advantage that drives faster insights and more confident decisions over time. The platform draws on over a decade of domain expertise across finance, supply chain, sales, and workforce planning to provide the business context AI needs to interpret enterprise data accurately.
Key Takeaways
- • Anaplan has launched CoModeler, Custom Analyst, and Agent Studio — three new AI innovations expanding its role-based agent capabilities — alongside 12 new purpose-built, out-of-the-box applications at its 25 March 2026 Miami event.
- • CoModeler converts natural language into structured planning models in minutes vs. days — automating complex logic development with embedded best practices and full governance documentation for enterprise-scale deployments.
- • Custom Analyst and Agent Studio enable customers to build and deploy bespoke AI analysts tailored to their unique models and workflows — with full governance, explainability, and enterprise-grade security.
- • Anaplan's architecture combines LLM reasoning with a deterministic planning engine for traceable, auditable calculations — a critical differentiator from pure LLM-based tools for high-stakes enterprise decision-making.
- • More than 2,600 global brands plan with Anaplan — including AWS, Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, OpenAI, ServiceNow, and Salesforce — relying on the platform for their most complex and critical business decisions.