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Startup Runway Management

Know your cash, burn and zero-cash date every week, with a 13-week forecast, red-line triggers, spending rules and a cut plan written long before the money gets tight.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Startup Runway Management, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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Pillar

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Area

50

Projects

200

Starter tasks

🚀 Founding & Startups

Startup Runway Management

Tracking burn and months of runway, setting spending rules and planning cuts or milestones well before the money runs short.

  1. True cash position across every account
  2. Twelve-month burn history from the books
  3. Gross and net burn definitions agreed
  4. Months of runway and the zero-cash date
  5. Committed costs and contract notice periods
  6. Thirteen-week cash flow forecast
  7. Eighteen-month runway model with headcount plan
  8. Runway red lines and minimum cash floor
  9. Spending authority and approval limits
  10. Monday cash check
  11. Monthly burn and runway close
  12. Runway line in the monthly investor update
  13. Quarterly software subscription audit
  14. Forecast versus actual variance review
  15. Weekly roll of the thirteen-week forecast
  16. Quarterly reforecast of the runway model
  17. Weekly receivables chase
  18. Monthly supplier payment run
  19. Cloud and infrastructure cost watch
  20. Reading a cash flow statement as a founder
  21. Burn multiple and capital efficiency measures
  22. Fully loaded cost of each hire
  23. Cash timing of annual and monthly billing
  24. Base, downside and severe runway scenarios
  25. Multi-currency cash and exchange exposure
  26. Grants and tax credits that extend runway
  27. Default alive or default dead assessment
  28. Three-tier cost reduction plan on the shelf
  29. Supplier contract renegotiation round
  30. Annual prepayment offer to existing customers
  31. Office and workspace cost decision
  32. Hiring plan gated by runway milestones
  33. Venture debt and revenue-based finance evaluation
  34. Founder salary level decision
  35. Milestones the remaining runway must buy
  36. Fundraise start date worked back from runway
  37. Insider bridge round preparation
  38. Board meeting runway section
  39. Year-end tax and annual bill cash plan
  40. First ninety days after the round lands
  41. Founder-funded runway before the first cheque
  42. Solo founder runway with contractors only
  43. Runway reset after a fundraise falls through
  44. Hardware runway with inventory and lead times
  45. Largest customer loss runway response
  46. Runway for lumpy or seasonal revenue
  47. Treasury policy for idle cash after a raise
  48. Payroll continuity if the main bank fails
  49. Probability-weighted runway forecast
  50. Burn benchmarking against stage peers

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

True cash position across every account

Before any runway number means anything, you need one figure for the cash the company can actually spend today. That means every bank account, card balance, payment processor float and currency wallet, less money that is already spoken for, such as payroll going out on Friday or customer deposits you may have to refund.

First tasks

  • List every bank, card, processor and currency account the company holds
  • Pull each balance on the same day and convert to one currency
  • Mark deposits, grant funds and next payroll as committed cash
  • Write the spendable cash total and date at the top of the sheet

Twelve-month burn history from the books

Burn is a fact about the past before it is a forecast about the future, and most founders guess it low by forgetting annual bills, contractor invoices and card spend. Rebuilding the last twelve months of cash in and cash out from the bank feed shows the real monthly burn and how much it swings.

First tasks

  • Export twelve months of transactions from every company bank account
  • Group spending into no more than eight cost categories
  • Flag one-off payments that will not repeat
  • Calculate the average and trailing three-month burn

Gross and net burn definitions agreed

Gross burn is everything the company spends in a month, and net burn is that figure less the cash customers paid in. Co-founders, the accountant and investors often quote different numbers simply because they define burn differently, so writing one definition down ends that confusion before it reaches a board pack.

First tasks

  • Write a draft definition of gross burn and net burn
  • Decide how grants, loans and tax refunds are treated
  • Send the definition to co-founders and the accountant for comment
  • Paste the agreed wording into the runway model

Make it yours.

Install Startup Runway Management, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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