A weekly cash forecast for businesses that do the work first and get paid months later. It shows the week your balance goes under — while there's still time to do something about it.
Week 7 is where it breaks. Payroll lands four days before the Miller invoice clears. You're $14,200 short — and you can see it six weeks early.
Every owner doing project work says a version of the same thing.
“I had to buy all the material up front, pay my guys weekly over three months, and the client paid on ninety day terms after delivery. There was a week I genuinely thought I was going to miss payroll.”
Fabrication shop owner“I build a spreadsheet to forecast, but something's always missing or changed. An unexpected expense shows up and the whole plan collapses.”
Owner, 9 employees“I thought I knew what I could safely spend. Turns out I was being way too optimistic.”
Agency founder“I'd love to hear from people who are past the stage of checking the bank account and praying.”
The post that started thisEverything else was left out on purpose.
An invoice sent on the 1st with net-60 terms is money that arrives in March. Runway plans around when cash actually lands, and lets you mark the clients who always run late.
Insurance, quarterly tax, annual software, the truck repair. The expenses that wreck a plan get set aside monthly instead of ambushing you in week nine.
Your bank balance is a lie — most of it is already committed. Runway shows what's genuinely free after every scheduled outgoing is covered.
Twelve weeks, and no further. Anyone selling you a twelve-month forecast is selling fiction. The weeks that can actually hurt you are the ones you can still change.
The alternatives are a spreadsheet you'll stop updating by March, or a $450 platform built for a finance team you don't have.
14-day trial. Cancel in two clicks. If your week 7 never breaks, you shouldn't be paying us.