Financial-Model

A founder I know discovered last year that her runway was off by four months. Not because her assumptions were wrong. Because a SUM range in row 47 didn’t include the last three hires she’d added to the team sheet. The formula referenced B12:B24. Her team list went to B27. She’d been making hiring decisions based on a number that was silently, confidently wrong. No error message. No red cell. Just a clean-looking spreadsheet telling her she had until March when she actually had until November. ...

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. ...