startup-financial-modeling¶

Builds 3-5 year financial models with revenue projections, cost structures, cash flow analysis, and scenario planning for startups. Use when user needs a spreadsheet-ready financial model or mentions 'financial model,' 'burn rate,' 'runway,' 'cash flow,' or 'financial projections.' For market sizing (TAM/SAM/SOM), see market-sizing-analysis. For broader competitive and strategic analysis, see startup-analyst.

Area: Strategy
Category: product management
Level: intermediate
Input: conversation
Output: document
Setup: none
Roles: CEO / Founder, Finance Manager

Builds 3-5 year financial models with revenue projections, cost structures, cash flow analysis, and scenario planning for startups.

How you ask¶

“Build a 3-year financial model for our SaaS startup”
“Project our burn rate and runway for the next 18 months”
“Create a cash flow analysis with scenario planning”
“Model our revenue growth with different pricing assumptions”

Inputs¶

request — The business model, modeling horizon, and known assumptions — triggers a complete revenue, cost, cash-flow, and 3-scenario model.
scope — company, or a client-id under {company.clients}/ — a string with one reserved value, not a closed set
request — The runway or funding-timing question and the known cash position — triggers a cash flow, burn, and runway analysis.
request — What is known and what is sparse — triggers a documented assumption set with provisional outputs and flags for what must be verified next.

Outputs¶

Current cash, monthly burn, runway in months, and the funding-need date, traceable to the stated cash and expense assumptions.
Documented assumption set, each entry marked placeholder or confirmed, with provisional outputs and the follow-up verification needed before it can be treated as a full model.
Full model — key assumptions, 3-year summary, unit economics, cash position, and scenario comparison across conservative, base, and optimistic cases.
{scope.knowledge-base.product}/startup-financial-modeling-{YYYY-MM-DD}.md