Know exactly how far the round carries
Burn, runway and every scenario in one model — day by day from your accounting, board-ready without a night in a spreadsheet.
Forecasting
Forecast
Income vs Expenses
· Past + projected · dashed = forecast| Jul 26 | Aug 26 | Sep 26 | Oct 26 | Nov 26 | Dec 26 | Jan 27 | Feb 27 | Mar 27 | Apr 27 |
| Revenue | ||||||||||
Recurring revenue | €27,900€27,900 | €30,800€30,800 | €34,000€0 | €34,000€0 | €34,000€0 | €34,000€0 | €34,000€0 | €34,000€0 | €34,000€0 | €34,000€0 |
Active customersStripe | 82 | 91 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
Revenue per customer | €340 | €340 | €340 | €340 | €340 | €340 | €340 | €340 | €340 | €340 |
Services & onboarding | €9,500€9,500 | €9,500€9,500 | €9,500€0 | €9,500€0 | €9,500€0 | €9,500€0 | €9,500€0 | €9,500€0 | €9,500€0 | €9,500€0 |
| Total revenue | €37,400 | €40,300 | €43,500 | €43,500 | €43,500 | €43,500 | €43,500 | €43,500 | €43,500 | €43,500 |
| Operating expenses | ||||||||||
Payroll | −€62,000−€62,000 | −€71,000−€71,000 | −€71,000€0 | −€71,000€0 | −€71,000€0 | −€71,000€0 | −€71,000€0 | −€71,000€0 | −€71,000€0 | −€71,000€0 |
| 6000 · Salaries | −€50,840 | −€58,220 | −€58,220 | −€58,220 | −€58,220 | −€58,220 | −€58,220 | −€58,220 | −€58,220 | −€58,220 |
| 6010 · Employer costs | −€11,160 | −€12,780 | −€12,780 | −€12,780 | −€12,780 | −€12,780 | −€12,780 | −€12,780 | −€12,780 | −€12,780 |
Cloud & hosting | −€8,400−€8,400 | −€8,400−€8,400 | −€8,400€0 | −€8,400€0 | −€8,400€0 | −€8,400€0 | −€8,400€0 | −€8,400€0 | −€8,400€0 | −€8,400€0 |
Marketing | −€14,000−€14,000 | −€14,000−€14,000 | −€14,000€0 | −€14,000€0 | −€14,000€0 | −€14,000€0 | −€14,000€0 | −€14,000€0 | −€14,000€0 | −€14,000€0 |
| Total operating expenses | −€84,400 | −€93,400 | −€93,400 | −€93,400 | −€93,400 | −€93,400 | −€93,400 | −€93,400 | −€93,400 | −€93,400 |
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The status quo
The capital is in the bank. How far it carries is the open question.
Every answer already sits in numbers you have — in the ledger, in Stripe, in the payroll journal. Nothing pulls them together, and the board asks anyway.
How far does the round actually carry?
The bank balance is known. The month it turns is the number the board asks for.
What does the next hire really cost — and when?
Salary isn't the number in the contract, and the runway shortens from month one, not from first revenue.
Which plan extends the runway most?
Two hires fewer, a bigger ad budget, one tool gone — the combination decides it, not any single move.
What's missing is a model that runs forward — and corrects itself with every new booking.
The challenge
Why runway is so hard to forecast
Six things make it hard. A forecast has to handle every one of them before the number in it belongs in a board deck.
Runway is a date, not a division
Cash ÷ average burn assumes every month is the same month. The one where a tax payment, an annual renewal and two hires land together is not.
Payroll steps, it doesn't slope
A hire moves the burn from their start month at the full amount. Spread across the year as an average, that step disappears exactly where it mattered.
A salary is not what a person costs
Employer contributions add roughly a fifth on top, and they're due whether the hire has ramped up or not.
Growth spend has to move revenue, not only burn
A plan where a bigger budget only ever costs money will always recommend spending nothing. The revenue it buys has to be in the same model.
The board asks for scenarios, not a plan
Base, downside, and the one where you hire ahead of revenue. Three tabs of a spreadsheet stop agreeing with each other by the second update.
Actuals arrive weeks after the month
By the time the close is done, the number the board saw is six weeks old. A plan that doesn't correct itself is out of date the day it's built.
So it takes more than cash divided by burn. It takes a model that handles all six of them by design.
The solution
One financial model that answers every question you have
Foreqast isn't three separate tools. It's one model of your money — prebuilt from your accounting data, then sharpened by every driver that syncs into it.
What you connect
Based on your accounting
Actuals, accruals and open items — already assigned to an account.
Improve with additional data
Billings, refunds, fees, spend per channel.
Perfectionize with your assumptions
Hiring plan, growth budget, contracts, payment terms.
Forecasting
Forecast
| May 26 | Jun 26 | Jul 26 | Aug 26 | Sep 26 | Oct 26 | Nov 26 | Dec 26 | Jan 27 | Feb 27 |
| Revenue | ||||||||||
Recurring revenue | €27,900€27,900 | €29,400€29,400 | €30,800€30,800 | €34,000€34,000 | €34,000€0 | €34,000€0 | €34,000€0 | €34,000€0 | €34,000€0 | €34,000€0 |
Active customersStripe | 82 | 86 | 91 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
Revenue per customer | €340 | €340 | €340 | €340 | €340 | €340 | €340 | €340 | €340 | €340 |
Services & onboarding | €9,500€9,500 | €9,500€9,500 | €9,500€9,500 | €9,500€9,500 | €9,500€0 | €9,500€0 | €9,500€0 | €9,500€0 | €9,500€0 | €9,500€0 |
| Operating expenses | ||||||||||
Payroll | −€62,000−€62,000 | −€62,000−€62,000 | −€62,000−€62,000 | −€62,000−€62,000 | −€62,000€0 | −€71,000€0 | −€71,000€0 | −€71,000€0 | −€71,000€0 | −€71,000€0 |
| 6000 · Salaries | −€50,840 | −€50,840 | −€50,840 | −€50,840 | −€50,840 | −€58,220 | −€58,220 | −€58,220 | −€58,220 | −€58,220 |
| 6010 · Employer costs | −€11,160 | −€11,160 | −€11,160 | −€11,160 | −€11,160 | −€12,780 | −€12,780 | −€12,780 | −€12,780 | −€12,780 |
Growth & marketing | −€14,000−€14,000 | −€14,000−€14,000 | −€14,000−€14,000 | −€14,000−€14,000 | −€14,000€0 | −€14,000€0 | −€14,000€0 | −€14,000€0 | −€14,000€0 | −€14,000€0 |
Cloud & tools | −€8,400−€8,400 | −€8,400−€8,400 | −€8,400−€8,400 | −€8,400−€8,400 | −€8,400€0 | −€8,400€0 | −€8,400€0 | −€8,400€0 | −€8,400€0 | −€8,400€0 |
| AssetsBalances at period end | ||||||||||
| Cash | €933,000 | €887,500 | €843,400 | €802,500 | €761,600 | €711,700 | €661,800 | €611,900 | €562,000 | €512,100 |
| AnalysisBurn & runway | ||||||||||
| Net burn | €47,000 | €45,500 | €44,100 | €40,900 | €40,900 | €49,900 | €49,900 | €49,900 | €49,900 | €49,900 |
| Runway | 20 mo | 20 mo | 19 mo | 20 mo | 19 mo | 14 mo | 13 mo | 12 mo | 11 mo | 10 mo |
| Cost per new customer | €640 | €640 | €640 | €640 | €640 | €640 | €640 | €640 | €640 | €640 |
Capabilities
What does the next hire take off the runway?
How much capital is left?
What are we actually burning a month?
Which month does the round run out?
What does a new customer cost us?
The use cases
Now start working with your numbers
See the month it turns
Not cash divided by burn, but a date that corrects itself with every new booking.
Liquidity & runway
Burn, and the month it ends
| Jul 26 | Aug 26 | Sep 26 | Oct 26 |
| Operating expenses | ||||
Payroll | −€62,000−€62,000 | −€71,000−€71,000 | −€71,000€0 | −€71,000€0 |
| 6000 · Salaries | −€50,840 | −€58,220 | −€58,220 | −€58,220 |
| 6010 · Employer costs | −€11,160 | −€12,780 | −€12,780 | −€12,780 |
Cloud & hosting | −€8,400−€8,400 | −€8,400−€8,400 | −€8,400€0 | −€8,400€0 |
Marketing | −€14,000−€14,000 | −€14,000−€14,000 | −€14,000€0 | −€14,000€0 |
| Total operating expenses | −€84,400 | −€93,400 | −€93,400 | −€93,400 |
| Change in cash | −€47,000 | −€53,100 | −€49,900 | −€49,900 |
| Cumulative cash | €933,000 | €879,900 | €830,000 | €780,100 |
Cost every hire first
Start date, salary, employer contributions — and the weeks of runway the hire costs.
Hiring
Payroll & hiring plan
| Jul 26 | Aug 26 | Sep 26 | Oct 26 | Nov 26 | Dec 26 |
| Operating expenses | ||||||
Payroll | −€57,600−€57,600 | −€57,600−€57,600 | −€57,600€0 | −€65,280€0 | −€65,280€0 | −€65,280€0 |
| 6000 · Salaries | −€48,000 | −€48,000 | −€48,000 | −€54,400 | −€54,400 | −€54,400 |
| 6010 · Employer contributions | −€9,600 | −€9,600 | −€9,600 | −€10,880 | −€10,880 | −€10,880 |
Freelancers | −€7,200−€7,200 | −€7,200−€7,200 | −€7,200€0 | −€7,200€0 | −€7,200€0 | −€7,200€0 |
Tools & software | −€2,400−€2,400 | −€2,400−€2,400 | −€2,400€0 | −€2,400€0 | −€2,400€0 | −€2,400€0 |
| Total operating expenses | −€67,200 | −€67,200 | −€67,200 | −€74,880 | −€74,880 | −€74,880 |
New Role
Hiring planRole
Start
Monthly salary
Fully loaded €7,680 / mo — employer contributions included.
Base case and downside side by side
Every assumption is a switch — combine them freely, without touching the real plan.
Decisions
Impact before you commit
| Jul 26 | Aug 26 | Sep 26 | Oct 26 | Nov 26 | Dec 26 |
| Change in cash | −€3,700 | −€3,700 | −€3,700 | −€2,700 | −€2,700 | −€2,700 |
| Cumulative cash | €144,300 | €140,600 | €136,900 | €134,200 | €131,500 | €128,800 |
Simulate decisions
Together, from Oct 2026
That puts every number in one model. What follows is the daily work with it — one decision at a time.
Liquidity & runway
See the month the capital runs out — day by day, and always current.
Foreqast syncs your accounting and payment providers, spreads every booking into daily accruals, and carries burn and runway forward from there. Revenue keeps growing on its drivers, payroll and contracts sit in the plan as dated items — so the runway month isn't an estimate, it's a date that corrects itself with every new booking.
Liquidity & runway
Burn, and the month it ends
| Jul 26 | Aug 26 | Sep 26 | Oct 26 |
| Operating expenses | ||||
Payroll | −€62,000−€62,000 | −€71,000−€71,000 | −€71,000€0 | −€71,000€0 |
| 6000 · Salaries | −€50,840 | −€58,220 | −€58,220 | −€58,220 |
| 6010 · Employer costs | −€11,160 | −€12,780 | −€12,780 | −€12,780 |
Cloud & hosting | −€8,400−€8,400 | −€8,400−€8,400 | −€8,400€0 | −€8,400€0 |
Marketing | −€14,000−€14,000 | −€14,000−€14,000 | −€14,000€0 | −€14,000€0 |
| Total operating expenses | −€84,400 | −€93,400 | −€93,400 | −€93,400 |
| Change in cash | −€47,000 | −€53,100 | −€49,900 | −€49,900 |
| Cumulative cash | €933,000 | €879,900 | €830,000 | €780,100 |
Hiring & payroll
Plan the next hires with a start date — and see what each one takes off the runway.
Create every planned role with a start month, salary and contracted week, long before anyone signs. Foreqast adds employer contributions automatically, plans the cost from the start month, and shows the new runway immediately. Push a start date back two months and you see straight away how many weeks that buys.
Hiring
Payroll & hiring plan
| Jul 26 | Aug 26 | Sep 26 | Oct 26 | Nov 26 | Dec 26 |
| Operating expenses | ||||||
Payroll | −€57,600−€57,600 | −€57,600−€57,600 | −€57,600€0 | −€65,280€0 | −€65,280€0 | −€65,280€0 |
| 6000 · Salaries | −€48,000 | −€48,000 | −€48,000 | −€54,400 | −€54,400 | −€54,400 |
| 6010 · Employer contributions | −€9,600 | −€9,600 | −€9,600 | −€10,880 | −€10,880 | −€10,880 |
Freelancers | −€7,200−€7,200 | −€7,200−€7,200 | −€7,200€0 | −€7,200€0 | −€7,200€0 | −€7,200€0 |
Tools & software | −€2,400−€2,400 | −€2,400−€2,400 | −€2,400€0 | −€2,400€0 | −€2,400€0 | −€2,400€0 |
| Total operating expenses | −€67,200 | −€67,200 | −€67,200 | −€74,880 | −€74,880 | −€74,880 |
New Role
Hiring planRole
Start
Monthly salary
Fully loaded €7,680 / mo — employer contributions included.
Scenarios & growth spend
Test decisions and see the impact on profit and cash flow — before you commit.
Every hire, every ad budget and every contract is its own switch in the simulator. Turn them on alone or in combination and compare the forecast with and without. The switch above the table gives you both sides of it: the profit view for the board deck, the cash view for the runway date. “We could grow harder” becomes a plan with two numbers next to it — and none of it touches your real forecast until you keep it.
Planning
Simulator
Decisions
First lands Oct 2026
Net monthly
Better, every month
Ad-budget changes
No planned spend steps
Simulate decisions
Together, from Oct 2026
Your configuration
Choose how accurate your forecast should be
It depends on what you give it — so here's the whole ledger, and you can click through it. Every input carries a fixed weight, and only the things you have to keep current cost you time. Accounting alone already reads Solid, at zero hours a week. Add the hiring plan and it reads Max — which is the level a board deck deserves.
One-time setup
Integrations
Ongoing tracking
Your forecast quality and automation
Success stories
Startups that know their runway
How other funded teams plan runway, hiring and scenarios — in their own words.
PLECOM4 min read
How PLECOM separates its own money from its clients' ad budgets
An eCommerce agency running retainers, shop builds and client ad budgets through one account. PLECOM connected accounting to Foreqast and now plans against a cash curve where pass-through spend is money that was never theirs.
12 months
of cash visibility
Arclane3 min read
How Arclane knows which month a project pays for itself
A software agency whose revenue arrives in milestones and whose costs run every single day. Arclane connected accounting and now plans developer capacity against a cash curve that already contains every signed milestone.
12 months
of cash visibility
Watchbaze4 min read
How Watchbaze sizes every restock before the money leaves the account
A Shopify watch shop where each restock ties up five figures for weeks. Watchbaze connected accounting and shop to Foreqast and now orders against a cash position it can see twelve months out, instead of against a bank balance.
20 min
to first forecast
Works with your stack
Accounting and your payment provider are enough to start
Time to value
Set up in 30 minutes — after that the forecast runs itself
It takes exactly one connection: your accounting. Foreqast builds burn and runway out of it automatically — no model to set up, no template to fill in. The hiring plan comes after that.
- 2 min
Connect accounting and Stripe
DATEV, lexoffice or Xero over OAuth. That is the whole setup — no CSV, no bank statement.
- Automatic
Burn and runway are live
Bookings arrive already categorized, get accrued day by day and roll twelve months forward.
- ~30 min
Team and planned hires in the plan
Every role with a start month and a workload — Foreqast adds the employer contributions itself.
Usable from the accounting connection alone, sharper with every step after it: billing and payment integrations · growth channel syncs · contracts and cloud spend · board scenarios
Why Foreqast
All the data, none of the pre-board spreadsheet night
The runway model holds every number somebody puts in it — which is why it hangs on that one person, and why actuals go in by hand. Traditional FP&A is built for finance teams you don't have yet. Foreqast joins the two: the data from your accounting, carried forward automatically.
| Spreadsheets | Traditional FP&A | Foreqast | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data basis | Anything you type in | After the implementation | Real accounting data |
| Actuals | A manual export each month | Automatic, once connected | Continuous sync |
| Runway as a date | A monthly average | Monthly granularity | Day by day, always current |
| Hires with start dates | A column per role | A workforce module | Start month, fully loaded |
| Growth spend with revenue impact | Only ever a cost line | With a driver model | Budget moves revenue |
| Scenarios | End up as five tabs | Versioned scenarios | Switches, compared live |
| Cash and profit view | Whatever you model | Both, maintained apart | Both, one switch apart |
| Board reporting | A rebuild before each update | Standard reports | Always current, exportable |
| Setup | Days to weeks | Weeks to months | 30 minutes |
| Price | Free | Five figures a year | From €49/month |
The short version: the spreadsheet is quick to stand up, but it hangs on one person. FP&A can do everything, but it's built for a team you don't have yet. Foreqast has both — and costs less.
FAQ
The questions funded teams ask
What funded teams want to know before they start — answered briefly. The long version lives in the documentation and the academy.
Still have a question?
The documentation explains every field; the academy walks the whole way from actuals to a finished plan.
How is the runway calculated?
From your day-by-day cash position: actuals up to today, then the driver-based forecast including taxes, payment terms and contracts.
Can I plan roles nobody fills yet?
Yes. A planned role gets a start month, salary and workload and runs in the forecast from that month — nobody has to be employed.
Are employer contributions included?
Yes. Foreqast adds payroll on-costs to the gross salary and plans the fully loaded cost, not just the contract amount.
Can I hold several scenarios side by side?
Yes. Each decision is its own switch; combine them freely and compare the forecast with and without, without touching the real plan.
Does a bigger growth budget move revenue too?
Yes. Growth spend is a driver: budget divided by acquisition cost gives customers, and those customers sit in the same model.
Does it work without much history?
Yes. You model revenue drivers, the team and contracts directly; actuals fill in as the months pass.
What about board and investor reporting?
Burn, runway and the cash plan are always current and exportable, so there's no rebuild before every update.
How current are the numbers?
Every sync carries actuals and drivers forward. The plan stays the same one and corrects itself, instead of being six weeks old.
Is my data secure?
Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and only ever used to build your own forecast.
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