Decision simulator

Test a hire, a price change, or a raise against your live forecast before you commit.

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The Simulator answers one question: what does this decision do to my cash? You build the decision, and the forecast is recalculated with it and without it, side by side, day by day.

What you can simulate

A hire — salary, employer contributions and a start date.
A price or budget change — a different ad budget, a new price point.
A cost change — a contract cancelled, paused or renegotiated.
A purchase — a restock, a piece of equipment, a deposit.

How to read the result

The simulated path is drawn against your baseline, so what you are looking for is not the new number but the gap between the two lines, and the date the gap opens. A hire that looks affordable in the monthly average can still put you below zero in the week the first salary run and a quarterly tax payment land together — which only a day-level comparison shows.

Simulating more than one decision

Decisions compose. Add a hire and an ad budget increase together and the forecast shows their combined effect, not two separate what-ifs, because the second decision runs against the cash the first one has already spent.

The Advanced Simulator extension adds saved scenarios, so a simulation you want to come back to can be kept and compared later rather than rebuilt. See Building scenarios.

Costing a decision before committing to it is what simulating a fixed cost is for.