Planning workspace · capability

Scenario planning your team will actually use.

An editable, live workspace where planners model a change and watch it reconcile — not a report they export and forget.

Planning·Cycle workspace · SS27 buildLast sync · just now

One surface the whole team plans on

Cycles, owners, sign-off gates and versions on one governed surface — not nine copies of a file over email.

SS27 build · sign-off due in 8 days
127 submitted
4Signed off
3Need you
6Owners
SS27Cycle
One surface, governed
1
surface for the team
±2%
auto-signs within envelope
100%
edits audited
v6
versioned
Needs you
3 waiting ›
Outerwear · sent back · +6.4% over envelopereviewreview
Knitwear · awaiting your sign-offsign offsign off
The numbers behind it

Why the workspace is where decisions get made.

14 pts

Full-price sell-through gap between retail leaders and the industry — most of it down to how the team plans together.

Source: Incisiv × WRC × Anaplan 2026

~53%

Share of unplanned markdown cost attributed to upstream planning friction.

Source: Coresight industry research

12 / 12

Plan owners working in one workspace through a typical SS27 build cycle.

Source: Representative mid-market retailer

The problem today

What breaks before planning workspace runs to plan.

Planning·Planning in spreadsheets · SS27
Copies emailed
9
of the same file
Owners of record
0
no one accountable
Sign-off trail
none
approved over email
Which is live?
ask Maya
lives in her head
Last saved
unknown
no version history
Version sprawl · the same plan, five files
nobody knows which is live
Same plan · five conflicting copies · which is live?$27.1Mv5Maya5 days ago$28.6Mv6Sarah3 days ago“FINAL”?$28.6Mv6_FINALMaya2 days ago$29.4Mv7_MPMayayesterday$29.1Mv7_reviewedPippa6 hrs ago
The cycle lives in the inbox
RE: RE: FW: knitwear numbers — latest?
Sarah C. · 5 replies · 2 attachments
sign off dresses before Friday??
Maya P. · no approval recorded
outerwear over budget — whose call?
Pippa C. · +6.4% · unresolved
which version is final — v6 or v7?
James W. · 3 people asking
Single point of failure
The plan lives in someone’s head.
When they’re out, the cycle stalls.
Diagnosis — nine copies, no owner, no gate, no trailSource: representative mid-market cycle · Incisiv × WRC planning-maturity benchmark
How Tightly does it

Three steps from spreadsheet to a surface the team plans on.

Tightly · Workspace live· three stages from data to decisionLive
01One surface
SS27 BUILD · ONE SHARED GRIDPLANCOMMITOWNER · EDITINGKnitwear$3.7MSCliveDresses$3.7MMPliveOuterwear$3.7MSCliveTops$3.7MPClive

The whole team works on one plan

Every category owner works the same live plan — no emailed copies, no merging spreadsheets. Everyone sees the same numbers, states and comments as they change.

one live surface
02Owners + gates
SUBMIT · RECONCILE · GATEWorkingSubmittedSignedWithin ±2% of envelopeAuto-signed · Knitwear −1.6%Over envelope · +6.4%Outerwear sent back to owner · variance attached

Submit runs the check; ±2% auto-signs

Every plan has an owner and a state. Submitting runs the reconciliation check against the envelope — within ±2% it auto-signs, over budget it routes back for rework with the variance attached.

±2% auto-sign · else route back
03Signed off
VERSION LOCKED · AUDIT TRAILv7Signed · roll-back readySarah Chensubmitted knitwear9:14Systemauto-signed · within ±2%9:14Maya Pateledited dresses commit9:31Yousent outerwear back9:47

Versioned, with a full audit trail

Sign-off locks a version you can roll back to, and every edit and approval is logged — who changed what, when. The plan never lives in one person’s head again.

versioned · fully audited
See it run

Plan in the system, not in a spreadsheet.

An editable, live workspace where planners model a change and watch it reconcile — not a report they export and forget.

Planning·Workspace · SS27 buildSign-off due · 10 Jul
Plans assigned
12
SS27 build
Submitted
7
into sign-off
Signed off
4
locked + versioned
Needs you
3
reviews + sign-offs
Sign-off due
8 days
cycle close
Line plans in this cycle
Sign off 2 ready
PlanOwnerStatevs envelopeNeedsVer
KnitwearSarah ChenSubmitted$3.74M · −1.6%your sign-offv6
OuterwearSarah ChenSent back$2.87M · +6.4%reworkv5
DressesMaya PatelWorking$4.12M · −1.9%@you commentv7
Wide-Leg PantsMaya PatelSubmitted$5.31M · −0.8%your sign-offv8
Tops & TeesPippa ColeSigned off$2.36M · −1.7%v4
Recent activity
PC
Pippa Cole signed off Tops & Tees
12m ago
SC
Sarah Chen sent back Outerwear · +6.4% over envelope
1h ago
MP
Maya Patel submitted Wide-Leg Pants
2h ago
Every edit & sign-off logged — who, what, when.
One surface — owners, sign-off gates, versions, auditSubmit within envelope auto-signs; else routes to the ownerSS27 · 4 of 12 signed off
Why teams change

What changes once the team plans in the system.

A worksheet, not a wall of tabs

One interactive canvas that holds the MFP, the OTB, the line plan, the forecast and the in-season view in one place.

Edit columns and views like a planner

'Show me Q3 footwear, by channel, against forecast.' No formula language, no admin ticket. Tia authors the view.

Tabular numbers, hairline grids, instant recalc

Built for fast eyes on big grids, not for marketing screenshots. The first thing a planner asks for, done right.

Every decision, with its lineage

Every cell records where its value came from. Nothing in the plan is unaccountable, and nothing is hidden in a back-office macro.

Your agents

Meet your Analytics agent

Surfaces the patterns and anomalies worth acting on, so the workspace shows you what changed and why.

Meet the agents
Tightly agent
just now · within your limits
Live

Re-forecast ready — 3 categories have drifted from plan this week. Want me to stage the moves for your review?

Drifted vs plan · this weekΔ wmape
Tailored Trousers+9%8%
Woolly Layers−12%11%
Activewear+5%9%
Rebalance 240u DC → SFRe-baseline OTB Q3Hold buy on OCN-072
Stage movesReview firstLogged · audit ready
What this replaces

The workspace you have today, and the one Tightly delivers.

Shared drive · SS27 plan
SS27_PLAN · EMAILED COPIES9 versions
SS27_plan_v6_FINAL.xlsx$28.6M
SS27_plan_v7_MP_edits.xlsx$29.4M
SS27_plan_v7_reviewed(2).xlsx$29.1M
which one is live?no ownersign-off over emailno audit trail
The plan is nine emailed copies with conflicting totals. No plan has an owner, sign-off happens over email, and when the one person who holds the status is out, the whole cycle stalls.
Tightly · Workspace · SS27 build
ONE SURFACE · OWNED · SIGNED OFFv8 · versioned
PlanOwnerStateTops & TeesPippaSignedKnitwearSarahSubmittedOuterwearSarahSent back
one live surfaceevery plan ownedsign-off gateversioned + audited
The whole team plans on one live surface — every plan has an owner and a sign-off gate, submit auto-signs within envelope, and every edit is versioned and audited. No more guessing which file is live.
FAQ

Questions buyers ask, answered straight.

Something not covered here? Talk to the team.

How do roles and permissions work?

Per-category owners + reviewers + approvers, configurable. Most teams gate at owner submits → reviewer comments → approver signs off. Audit log captures every action.

Can different cycles run in parallel?

Yes. SS26 hindsight, SS27 build and SS28 baseline can all be open at once. Each cycle has its own dashboard and gate sequence.

Does it integrate with Slack / Teams for notifications?

Yes. Status changes, sign-off requests and gate transitions can fire into Slack or Teams channels. Most teams configure a #planning-cycle channel.

What happens if an approver is OOO?

Configurable backup approver per gate. If the primary is unavailable, the backup gets the request automatically with an OOO notice in the audit log.

Plan, don't export. An editable workspace that reconciles live.

There's nothing to rip out. Tightly runs on your existing ERP, EDI, e-commerce and POS. Give us 30 minutes and we'll show it on your own categories.