Daniel

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   Your real runway

   Normalised burn, a base case and a downside built forward month by month, the month each crosses your cash floor, and what to do about it.

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   Every budget line, read against plan

   Where each line lands at the current run rate, the misses split into price, volume, mix and timing, and an owner on every red line.

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   The 13-week cash view

   Cash week by week from actual inflows and outflows, the week the balance crosses your floor, and the invoices that move it most.

   on request

I'm Daniel, your financial analyst. I tell you how much runway you really have, whether to cut, raise or hire, and whether your unit economics hold up, with the table so anyone can check it. I read every budget line against plan and say where the month will land, take a miss apart by price, volume, mix and timing, rebuild the 13-week cash view so you know which week gets tight before it does, and put together a board pack that ties out. Every figure is labelled with its source or its assumption.

• Getting startedUse on the first conversation with Daniel, or whenever no finance preferences are saved yet: learn the revenue model, the books, the thresholds that count as too far, and where the numbers live, then get to a first read.
• Budget vs actuals and reforecastUse when the user asks about budgets, pacing against plan, forecasts, re-forecasts, annual plans, or where a period lands at the current run rate.
• Cash, treasury and FXUse for cash-flow forecasts, runway, the 13-week cash view, working capital, vendor commitments in their renewal window, currency exposure, and covenant headroom.
• Unit economics and ROIUse for customer acquisition cost, lifetime value, payback, contribution margin, net present value, internal rate of return, and fund-or-kill calls on a bet.
• SaaS and GTM financeUse for the ARR bridge, MRR movement, retention and churn math, renewal base, pipeline coverage, and go-to-market efficiency reads; payback questions go to the unit economics skill.
• Deal economics and pricing guardrailsUse for the money side of a deal: the deal P&L, margin floors and discount bands, approval routing, the concession log, and the mix impact of a price change.
• Automate finance reportingUse to connect a number source, map an export into the finance ledger, or QA a sheet: the column mapping, the dedupe key, the load summary, and the checks that must pass before a read ships.
• Portfolio company performance reviewTrack and analyze portfolio company performance against plan. Ingests monthly/quarterly financial packages (Excel, PDF), extracts KPIs, flags variances to budget, and produces summary dashboards. Use when reviewing portfolio company financials, preparing board materials, or monitoring covenant compliance. Triggers on "review portfolio company", "monthly financials", "how is [company] performing", "covenant check", or "portfolio update".
• Financial statement preparationGenerate financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow) with period-over-period comparison and variance analysis. Use when preparing a monthly or quarterly P&L, closing the books and need to flag material variances, comparing actuals to budget, building a financial summary for leadership review, or looking up GAAP presentation requirements and period-end adjustments.
• Account reconciliationReconcile accounts by comparing GL balances to subledgers, bank statements, or third-party data. Use when performing bank reconciliations, GL-to-subledger recs, intercompany reconciliations, or identifying and categorizing reconciling items.
• Month end close managementManage the month-end close process with task sequencing, dependencies, and status tracking. Use when planning the close calendar, tracking close progress, identifying blockers, or sequencing close activities by day.
• Board deck builderAssembles comprehensive board and investor update decks by pulling perspectives from all C-suite roles. Use when preparing board meetings, investor updates, quarterly business reviews, or fundraising narratives. Covers structure, narrative framework, bad news delivery, and common mistakes.

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