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● NEW — Plaicel Skills

20 TM1 AI skills.

Finished work, not just answers.
Plaicel’s TM1 AI skills turn a plain-English question into the finished deliverable: a model health check, a TM1 12 readiness report, month-end commentary, a variance bridge. Each skill follows a tested procedure on your live IBM Planning Analytics data, read-only and with your own TM1 rights.
Plaicel Skills  ·  Planning Analytics READ-ONLY
YOU
Is this model ready for TM1 12?
SKILL · TM1 12 readiness 127 cubes 482 processes 37 chores
TM1 12 READINESS · REPORT
Not ready yet. One blocker, and most of the work repeats one template across about 20 processes, so it's a pattern fix.
SEVERITYFINDINGSOBJECTS Blocker11 High825 Medium22 Low35
Also Health check Variance analysis Month-end commentary Rule review +16 more
HOW A SKILL WORKS

A senior TM1 consultant's checklist, run in minutes

A tool reads a cell. A TM1 AI skill knows what to read, in what order, and how to turn it into something you can hand to your CFO or your developers.

1. Ask in plain English

“Is this model ready for TM1 12?” or “Why is Net Sales under budget?” No MDX, no TI, no setup per question.

2. The skill follows a proven procedure

It reads the right cubes, rules, processes and logs through the Plaicel TM1 MCP Server, in the order an expert would.

3. You get the finished deliverable

A ranked report, a variance bridge or a commentary draft, with every finding tied to the object it came from.
THE 20 SKILLS

The 20 TM1 AI skills: what you ask and what you get back

Grouped by who uses them. Every skill reads your model through the Plaicel TM1 MCP Server and never changes it.
FINANCE & FP&A

For finance teams

Explain the numbers, write the narrative and test scenarios without waiting on a TM1 developer.

Variance analysis

The gap measured and broken down through TM1’s own consolidations and rules, with the drivers listed largest first.
“Why is Net Sales under budget?”

Month-end commentary

A headline, a short variance table, commentary bullets and data notes, ready for the management pack.
“Write the September commentary”

Forecast accuracy

Forecast error and bias by period, plus the products, customers or regions that were forecast worst.
“How accurate was our Q3 forecast?”

What-if analysis

The effect on your plan, worked through your model’s own logic. Nothing is written to TM1.
“What if price rises 3%?”

Reconciliation

Matching lines, differences above tolerance and one-sided items, with totals that tie or a gap that is shown.
“Reconcile the trial balance to the Finance cube”

Cell trace

The rule and consolidation path behind a value, traced down to the inputs that drive it.
“How is this number calculated?”

KPI dashboard

A visual summary of live TM1 numbers you can share.
“Build a dashboard of Q3 results”

Business user guide

A plain-English guide to what the model holds and how to use it.
“Explain this model to the finance team”
MODEL OWNERS & ADMINS

For TM1 administrators

Keep the model healthy, the loads running and the security tight.

Model health check

Rules, feeders, processes, chores, settings and logs reviewed. Every finding says what was found, why it matters and how to fix it.
“Run a health check on this model”

Data freshness

Each cube marked current, stale or unknown, with the loads, failures and last changes behind the status.
“Are September actuals loaded?”

Data audit

Totals that don’t add up, missing or odd values, feeder gaps and recent data changes.
“Do our totals tie?”

Process troubleshooting

The failing process and step, the cause from the error logs, and the fix.
“Why did last night's load fail?”

Security audit

Users, groups, admin rights and cube, element, process and chore access, with the risks flagged.
“Review our TM1 security”

Impact analysis

Every rule, process, chore, view and subset that uses it, grouped by how badly a change would hurt.
“What breaks if we rename this element?”

Feeder trace

The feeder statements that cover a cell, or a warning when a rule-calculated cell looks unfed.
“Is this cell fed?”

Rule review

Each rule region in plain words, likely problems with line numbers, and suggested rewrites.
“Review the rules on the Sales cube”
DEVELOPERS & UPGRADES

For developers and upgrade projects

Review code, document models and plan the move to TM1 12.

TM1 12 readiness

Blockers and required changes, each tied to the object, the line and IBM’s published guidance.
“Is this model ready for TM1 12?”

TI code review

Findings by tab and line, why each one matters, and the fix.
“Review this TurboIntegrator process”

Technical documentation

Dimensions, rules, feeders, processes, chores and views in a developer handover pack.
“Document the Sales cube for handover”

Dynamic report builder

A Planning Analytics for Excel dynamic report build sheet with the exact formulas and cells.
“Build a P&L report in Excel”
WHERE THEY RUN

Run them in Claude, wherever you work

Skills run wherever Claude is connected to the Plaicel TM1 MCP Server.

Claude in Excel

Explain a variance beside the live Plaicel report it came from.

Claude for Google Sheets

Write month-end commentary straight into a spreadsheet.

Claude Desktop

Run long reviews such as a full health check or TM1 12 readiness report.

Claude on the web

Ask from any browser, with no install.
SAFE BY DESIGN

Built to be trusted with a production model

Skills sit on the same read-only, per-user foundation as the Plaicel TM1 MCP Server.

Read-only

Skills read data, metadata, rules and logs. Nothing is written, run or deleted.

Your TM1 rights

Every request runs as the signed-in user, so a skill sees only what that person can see.

Shows its work

Findings name the cube, process or rule and the line they came from, so they can be checked.

States its limits

Reports say what was checked and what wasn’t, instead of guessing.
HOW YOU GET THEM

Included with the Plaicel TM1 MCP Server

The 20 skills come with the Plaicel TM1 MCP Server in the Plaicel Enterprise plan, and are set up once for your organization. Mix Professional and Enterprise users on one team.

See a skill run on your own model

Book a working session and we’ll connect the Plaicel TM1 MCP Server to your Planning Analytics environment, on-premise or Cloud, and run the skills that matter to you on your real cubes, rules and processes.

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