What you'll do with it
Build a 3-year monthly budget. Track expenses and hires. Model equity, debt, and grant funding. Watch your cash balance roll forward and see exactly when you run out, and what changes when you cut, hire, or close a round.
Lighter than the Standard Financial Model. No prebuilt revenue logic, paste your revenue assumptions in and focus on the spend side. Most early-stage founders don't need a complex revenue forecast; they need to know the burn picture is right.
Edit with AI
Every cell open. Inputs in blue, formulas in black, rows documented. Built so you and your AI can edit without breaking it.
- Context primer, paste into Claude or ChatGPT before any change.
- Prompt guide, ready-made prompts for setup, hire planning, scenario modeling, board prep.
- Connect MCP, Claude Desktop or Claude.ai pulls model context automatically.
- Verify before trusting, sanity-check prompts catch hallucinated numbers and wrong references.
Common questions
What's the difference between this and the Standard Financial Model?
This is cost-focused. Plug your own revenue numbers in. The Standard adds a full prebuilt revenue model, pick that one if you need to forecast acquisition, conversion, churn, MRR/ARR, etc.
Excel or Google Sheets?
Both. All formulas open, no macros.
Pay what you want?
Yes. Set the price you think is fair. Updates are free for the major version.
What if I outgrow it?
Move to the Standard Financial Model when you need real revenue modeling. The cost structure carries over.
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