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.
In this example, week 7 is where it breaks. Payroll lands four days before a large invoice clears. The business is $14,200 short — and can see it six weeks early.
We read what owners in this spot write about it on Reddit. The same things keep coming up.
Materials and payroll go out every week. Clients pay 30 to 90 days after the job is done.
The forecasting spreadsheet works until something unexpected lands. Then the whole plan falls apart.
What feels safe to spend keeps turning out to be too optimistic.
Most people end up checking the bank balance and hoping for the best.
This is what Runway does, in the free web version today. Everything else is left out on purpose.
An invoice sent today on net-60 terms is money that arrives two months from now. Runway plans around when cash actually lands, and lets you flag the clients who always pay 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.
Most of your bank balance is already committed. Runway shows what's genuinely free after every scheduled payment is covered.
Twelve weeks, and no further. Past that, a forecast is mostly guesswork. The weeks that can actually hurt you are the ones you can still change.
Planned price for the paid version, with the Monday email and your numbers saved on any device. The forecast itself stays free. The alternatives are a spreadsheet you stop updating, or a $450-a-month platform built for a finance team you don't have.
Planned at launch: 14-day free trial, cancel anytime. Early list members get 50% off for the first year. If your week 7 never breaks, you shouldn't be paying us.
The free web version works today. The paid version will save your numbers on any device and email you every Monday with whether you're covered. Leave your email and we'll write to you either way. If it launches, early list members get 50% off for the first year: $24.50 a month instead of $49. Nothing is charged today.
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Thanks. You'll hear from us either way — a launch date, or an honest update. When we write, feel free to reply and tell us how cash comes in and goes out in your business. It directly shapes what we build.