For the founder.
Cash, hiring and fundraising calls in one model.
Until you hire a CFO, every money decision comes back to you. Startup Suite is built to show each option's runway and dilution before you choose.
“Raise $6M now, or wait a quarter and raise $8M at a higher price?”
Only if ARR reaches $2.4M to support a $40M pre-money.
- Raise $6M now$24M pre-money, pool topped up to 12%.47.1%Founder stake
- Wait, raise $8M$40M pre-money, same pool top-up. Needs $2.4M ARR.49.1%+2 ptsFounder stake
- Option pool12% of the pre-money covers 14 planned hires over the next 18 months.12%Pre-money
- Cash at closeWaiting a quarter leaves less room to negotiate.10 mo-3 moIf you wait
When every financial question waits on you
You're the bottleneck
Every financial question routes through you, and the company stalls waiting on your answer.
Spreadsheets eat your week
The hours you should spend deciding go to maintaining formulas instead.
Hiring, spending and raising don't connect
The biggest calls only you can make sit in different files that never line up.
Explore a sample founder planning workspace
See the decisions a founder runs from one model (cash, hiring and investor commitments) side by side, with a clean CFO handoff.
Run the founder's decisions from one model: cash allocation, hiring timing and investor commitments side by side, with a clean CFO handoff.
- Assumptions
- Model
- Scenarios
- Mentor Review
- Outputs
AI mentorCurrent plan: runway covers the milestone and ownership holds.
The question only you can answer
The calls that come back to you until a CFO arrives.
Hire the team or extend the runway? Raise now or wait a quarter? These are the calls that are yours alone, and Startup Suite is built to lay them side by side so you can compare the options and their runway cost before you decide.
- Hiring, spending and fundraising modelled side by side
- Set up from plain-English answers
- Hand off cleanly when your CFO arrives
The money decisions only a founder makes
The money decisions that land on a founder's desk before there is a finance team.
What the founder model covers
Every option in one model
Hiring, spending and raising options all draw on the same cash balance, so they compare like for like.
Numbers for investor meetings
The burn and dilution figures you quote come from the model you plan in.
Time back
The model handles the formulas, so your time goes on the decisions.
Built to carry on
The same model carries from pre-seed through your later rounds.
From setup to a clean handover to your CFO
- Step 1
Set up your workspace
Answer plain-English questions about the business to build your first model.
- Step 2
Bring the team in
Share visibility as you hire your first finance leader.
- Step 3
Run the company off it
Forecasts, scenarios and the cap table in one model.
- Step 4
Hand off cleanly
Your CFO starts with a working model and the history of how it changed.
Questions founders and CEOs ask
I'm not a finance person. Is this for me?
It's built for that. It's designed so a founder can run capital decisions without a finance background: the model is built to do the maths and you make the call.
What happens when I hire a CFO?
It's designed so they inherit the model and its change log, not a folder of spreadsheets.
Will it grow with us?
The same model carries from pre-seed through later rounds, so you're not switching tools at every stage.
Other stages and roles
See all solutionsMake your next money decision with the numbers in front of you
Answer a few plain-English questions about your business and see runway, hiring and fundraising options on your own numbers.