Most plans start going off course the day they’re approved. vsActual shows you where, long before the quarterly review.
What's at stake
The gap between strategy and execution is getting wider
AI speed is table stakes now. What’s missing is context. Teams, external business partners, and agents move at full speed, each working from a different picture of the plan. Small departures add up to execution drift: the growing distance between what leadership committed to and what actually gets delivered. Leaders usually find out only after a target is missed.
Where the gap shows up
Funding not tied to impact Requests get funded on a snapshot of budget and capacity that’s stale before the meeting ends, and on how well they’re argued rather than what they’ll deliver.
No single view across the business Once initiatives are underway, they spread across teams, functions, and regions, and leaders lose sight of what’s in flight and whether it’s moving.
Problems surface too late Status reports stay green, held there by hard work, until a missed target exposes trouble that’s been building for months.
Reports already out of date Every executive update takes weeks of exports and manual reconciliation, only to present data that is already stale.
Faster, but not together AI gets every team to an answer faster, but each answer comes from that team’s own data and its own definition of success.
Funding not tied to impact
Requests get funded on a snapshot of budget and capacity that’s stale before the meeting ends, and on how well they’re argued rather than what they’ll deliver.
No single view across the business
Once initiatives are underway, they spread across teams, functions, and regions, and leaders lose sight of what’s in flight and whether it’s moving.
Problems surface too late
Status reports stay green, held there by hard work, until a missed target exposes trouble that’s been building for months.
Reports already out of date
Every executive update takes weeks of exports and manual reconciliation, only to present data that is already stale.
Faster, but not together
AI gets every team to an answer faster, but each answer comes from that team’s own data and its own definition of success.
The #1 barrier executives name to reinventing their business is a disconnect between planning and execution.
PMI CEO survey of 300 senior executives, 2025¹
Only half of projects deliver value worth the effort and expense, and 13% fail outright.
PMI, Step Up: 2025 Project Success report²
64% of organizations say they have traced a confidently wrong AI answer to missing or inconsistent business context.
VentureBeat Intelligence August 2026 Research³
Meet vsActual
From commitment to results
AI agents do the legwork. You make the calls. vsActual is an AI-native platform from Smartsheet for the leaders accountable for enterprise strategy.
Turn your strategy into one plan
vsActual turns what’s already in your decks, budget memos, and business cases into one plan. Leadership approves it as the plan of record: one current version, not another deck that’s stale by the end of the quarter.
Tie the plan to delivery
Once the plan is set, vsActual links every funded initiative to live execution, across Smartsheet, other work tools, and the business systems around them. Teams see which company goal their work supports, and leaders see progress against the plan.
Catch execution drift early
When work drifts from the plan, vsActual flags it and models recovery options against budget and capacity. Leaders review and approve the change, and the plan updates with a record of what changed and why.
Your teams keep working in the tools they use today. vsActual sits above them, so leaders and teams finally work from the same plan.
vsActual in action
From planning season to the board meeting
Every initiative is tied to a target up front, so funding follows the strategy, not the strongest pitch.
It’s planning season. vsActual reads the strategy deck, the budget, and headcount data, drafts the plan, and ranks every initiative against the targets. Along the way, it flags any goals without targets and any initiatives without owners, so they get fixed on the spot.
Leaders see where things stand across the business, without waiting on someone to painstakingly build a report.
It’s a new CFO’s first week. From her AI assistant, she asks vsActual how to fund a $3.5M facility without raising the budget. vsActual lays out three options with their trade-offs. She holds the budget steady and revisits the facility at the next replan.
Getting the plan back on track becomes a call you make in the next review, not a lesson you learn at year-end.
It’s the midyear review. vsActual proactively flags that a program is trending over budget, and recommends three options. Leadership picks one, and the fix is in place well before the goal is impacted.
The executive summary comes straight from the plan of record, built by vsActual agents, so your strategy team gets weeks back, and the numbers hold up.
It’s board prep week. The head of strategy asks vsActual for an executive summary of the plan and has a polished report in hand, instead of spending two weeks pulling numbers together.
vsActual has the potential to take that value even further
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vsActual is just the start
It’s part of the Execution Hub, and one of several announcements from Smartsheet ENGAGE. See what else is new in the full recap.
vsActual is an AI-native platform from Smartsheet for the leaders accountable for enterprise strategy. It turns your strategy into one plan of record, connects that plan to the work delivering it, and flags execution drift early, so you can change course while there’s still time.
vsActual is built for the executives who set strategy and fund the work, like COOs, CFOs, and transformation leaders, and for the strategy and planning teams who run the planning cycle.
vsActual is in early access today, with a group of enterprise design partners using it on their real planning cycles. General availability is planned for early 2027. Sign up for updates to hear about early access and launch news first.
vsActual is designed as a standalone platform that can work with Smartsheet and the other work tools and business systems your teams already use.
No. Teams keep working in the tools they use today, without disruption. vsActual adds the strategy layer above them, so leaders and teams work from the same plan.
No. vsActual’s agents gather data, analyze it, and recommend options, and they show their reasoning. Nothing in the plan of record changes until a person approves it, and every change is recorded.
It’s the single, approved version of your strategy: the goals, funded initiatives, budget, and capacity that leadership committed to. Instead of a deck that goes stale, it stays current, and vsActual measures progress against it.
Most planning tools record decisions in one place and leave execution somewhere else. vsActual keeps the plan connected to the work after funding, shows where the two are drifting apart, and helps leaders decide what to do about it.
Yes. vsActual is designed to work with the AI assistants leaders already use, including Amazon Quick, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini Enterprise Plus, and Microsoft 365 Copilot, so you can ask about the plan from wherever you work.
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Where the gap shows up
