Scenarios & What-If Modeling
Overlay scenarios on your actual cash trajectory. See how hiring, revenue changes, and new commitments affect your runway in seconds. Every scenario starts from your confirmed data, so the "what if" reflects your real position, not an idealized model.
The problem
Every major decision (hiring, cutting costs, raising prices) has a financial ripple effect. Most founders make these decisions on gut feel because modeling them in a spreadsheet takes hours and the formula might be wrong.
The solution
RunwayCal's scenario engine lets you adjust seven levers (revenue, payroll, tools, commitments, funding, growth rate, and hiring pace) and see the exact runway impact in real time. Every result is deterministic arithmetic from your current financial state. Create multiple scenarios, compare them on Mission Control's overlay chart, and decide with confidence.
Your Actual Numbers, One Variable Changed
Traditional scenario planning starts with a blank spreadsheet. You estimate your current position, then layer assumptions on top. If the baseline is wrong, every scenario is wrong. RunwayCal scenarios start from your live financial data. Your actual cash, actual burn, actual revenue, actual team. Then you change one variable and see the exact impact. The difference between "I think we can afford this hire" and "this hire costs us 1.6 months of runway" is the difference between guessing and knowing.
Scenario Overlay on Mission Control
Scenarios you create here appear as dashed lines on Mission Control's cash trajectory chart alongside solid actuals and the base case. Founders see every future path at once, toggle lines from the legend, and keep decisions grounded in the same chart they already trust.
5 Data-Driven Suggestions
RunwayCal suggests up to five scenarios from current data patterns, still deterministic, still transparent. Each suggestion is one tap to load the sliders so you explore the idea instead of inventing it from scratch.
Auto-Recalculation
Every slider move instantly recomputes runway impact from your latest founder-defined state. No batch jobs, no black-box refresh, just immediate arithmetic so what-if modeling keeps pace with how fast you think.
How it works
Start from your current state
Scenarios begin with your real financial data as the base case, no assumptions to set up.
Adjust the sliders
Modify any combination of the seven levers, revenue, payroll, tools, commitments, funding, growth rate, and hiring pace. See the impact on runway, burn, and cash-out date in real time.
Save and name your scenario
Save scenarios with descriptive names like "Hire 2 engineers" or "Cut tools by 30%".
Compare on Mission Control
All saved scenarios appear on the scenario overlay chart alongside your actuals and base case.
Who it's for
Founders weighing a hire
See exactly how many months of runway a new hire costs before making the offer.
Founders cutting costs
Model different cost reduction strategies and compare which one extends runway the most.
Founders preparing for board
Walk into the board meeting with pre-modeled answers to "what if growth slows?" questions.
Related features
Model the decision. See the impact. Then commit.
Every scenario starts from your real data and computes results with deterministic math, not AI predictions.
Try scenario modeling → Start FreeNo credit card required · Set up in under 5 minutes · No finance expertise needed · Founding+ plan feature