Runway analysis for US businesses

A named person on our team owns your file and reviews everything that leaves it. Software does a real share of the grinding underneath it — coding, matching, flagging the obvious gaps — but nothing regulated happens without a person’s judgement, and nothing here is signed or filed by an algorithm.

No — runway analysis is operational work inside your books, not something submitted to IRS. Where a filing does sit downstream of it, inside advisory more broadly, that stays with your CPA or enrolled agent, never with us.

Whatever you already run. Most commonly QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage, Zoho Books and a handful of others — we work inside your system rather than moving you onto one of our own.

A short, free read-only look at what you already have, and a written note on what we found. A scoping call decides the size of the engagement — nothing here commits you to anything.

There is no published price for runway analysis — it depends on volume, how many entities are involved, and how far behind the books are. We quote after the read-only review, which is free.

Runway analysis sits inside advisory, alongside Cash flow forecasting, Budgeting and forecasting, Margin analysis. Most clients end up buying the category as a whole rather than one leaf at a time, but starting narrow is fine.

Gross burn is every dollar out the door in a month, nothing netted. Net burn subtracts what was actually collected. We report both, every time — a figure built on only one tells half the story.

Cash on hand divided by net burn gives months; we convert that to a calendar date and state the balance and burn it's derived from, so it's checkable.

No — that's your decision, made with your board and counsel. We hand over the cash-out date, the assumptions, and how that date moves under a few named scenarios.

Usually two or three things: a planned hire's timing, whether the largest invoice collects on terms or slips, and whether a major vendor renews at the current rate. We model the date under each named scenario.

Monthly, tied to close, by default. Companies burning fast enough that a month is too coarse move to a weekly rolling update, the same cadence as a 13-week cash flow model.

Yes — quarterly 941 deposits, and the more frequent dates on a semi-weekly schedule, come from your CPA or payroll provider's filing calendar as scheduled outflows.

Then a flat average doesn't go into the model. We flag step changes and recalculate off the most recent actual month rather than smoothing a spike into a blend.

No. A cash flow forecast projects receipts and disbursements across a horizon. Runway analysis answers a narrower question: given cash and burn today, what month does it run out, and how much does that move under a few scenarios. That's a separate engagement.

No. The date is built from cash you hold today and burn you're actually running — an unclosed raise doesn't belong in a number meant to tell you honestly what happens if it doesn't come through.

A named advisor reviews the model and every assumption before it reaches you. AI pulls the data and recalculates the figures; it doesn't sign off. If an assumption changes, that's stated at the next refresh, not corrected silently.