Three scenes from startup life that shouldn’t still be happening in 2025. Scene one. A first-time founder sits in a WeWork, staring at a downloaded financial model template. It has 14 tabs. One of them is called “Assumptions” but half the actual assumptions live in formulas scattered across other tabs. She changes the headcount in month 6 and the model spits out negative cash for month 4. That’s not possible. She spends two hours finding the broken formula. She has a pitch in three days. ...

Every startup founder has lived this moment: you open a Google Sheet, stare at a blank grid, and try to turn your business into rows and columns. Maybe you download a template. Maybe you copy one from a friend who raised a Series A. Either way, you spend the next two weeks building something fragile, praying nobody asks you to change an assumption. We built Burncast because that process is broken, and it doesn’t have to be. ...