Cash Runway & Burn Health Check
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cash-runway-and-burn-health-check-q1
Firmographic
What funding stage are you at?
Bootstrapped / friends & family
Pre-seed
Seed
Raising or raised Series A
Series A and beyond
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Firmographic
What's your current monthly burn?
Under £10k
£10k – £50k
£50k – £150k
£150k – £500k
£500k+
cash-runway-and-burn-health-check-q3
Diagnostic
Do you know your exact current cash balance right now, without checking?
No idea
Rough idea
Know it within a few thousand
Know it exactly
Know it exactly, plus what's committed or pending
cash-runway-and-burn-health-check-q4
Diagnostic
Do you have a rolling cash forecast?
No forecast
One-off forecast done ages ago
Forecast updated occasionally
Forecast updated monthly
Forecast updated weekly, driver-based
cash-runway-and-burn-health-check-q5
Diagnostic
How is burn rate tracked?
Not tracked
Reviewed reactively when cash gets low
Reviewed monthly after the fact
Tracked and reviewed proactively each month
Tracked in real time against forecast
cash-runway-and-burn-health-check-q6
Diagnostic
Do you know your runway in months, right now?
No idea
Rough guess
Know an approximate figure
Know an accurate figure
Know the figure and model multiple scenarios around it
cash-runway-and-burn-health-check-q7
Diagnostic
If you made a big hire or signed a big contract, could you say how runway would change?
No idea how to calculate this
Would need manual work to figure it out
Could estimate it roughly
Can model it fairly quickly
Can model it instantly with existing tools
cash-runway-and-burn-health-check-q8
Diagnostic
Do you have visibility into upcoming large cash outflows (tax, payroll spikes, annual contracts)?
No visibility at all
Occasionally caught by surprise
Aware of most, tracked loosely
Tracked and planned for
Fully mapped and factored into forecast
cash-runway-and-burn-health-check-q9
Diagnostic
If burn increased 20% next month, would you notice in time to act?
Probably not until it's a problem
Might notice late
Would likely catch it within a month
Would catch it within the month, with time to react
Would be flagged automatically before it happens
cash-runway-and-burn-health-check-q10
Diagnostic
How does cash visibility affect your decision-making (hiring, spending)?
Decisions made without reference to cash position
Occasional gut-check against cash
Cash checked before major decisions
Cash forecast actively informs planning
Cash forecast is central to all major decisions
Cash Runway & Burn Health Check
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Flying Blind
You don't have a reliable read on your own runway — which means real risk could be closer than it looks.
A cash crunch could arrive with little or no warning
Decisions today are being made without the numbers to back them
This is the single highest-risk area to fix first
Reactive Runway
You react to cash problems after they show up, rather than seeing them coming.
You're one bad month away from a scramble
A basic rolling forecast would remove most of this risk
This is quick to fix and pays for itself immediately
Managed Cash
You've got real visibility into cash — the next step is making it more forward-looking and automatic.
You're already ahead of most founders at your stage
Scenario planning would sharpen big decisions further
Worth automating what's currently manual
Cash Command
Cash is genuinely under control and actively shaping your decisions — rare at this stage.
This is a real operational strength
Worth benchmarking against best-in-class peers
The opportunity now is leverage, not risk reduction