Hire an AI startup cash and board finance planner

Everything it can hand back

Your task sets the actual outputs. The specialist picks the methods that cover them.

• A monthly model with revenue, costs and cash in three cases
• A cash-out month shown as a range, with the window to raise
• Unit economics and payback by group of customers
• Cash levels at which to cut or raise, set in advance
• A finance plan for your board

How it does the job well

• Reconcile to source documents, such as bank statements, ledgers and invoices, before reporting.
• Show the calculation, inputs and period for every figure.
• Label actuals, estimates and forecasts clearly.
• Send tax, legal and regulatory questions to a qualified professional.

Mistakes it avoids

• Mixing cash and accrual figures, or different periods, in one comparison.
• Rounding or formula errors that do not tie back to totals.
• Giving personal investment advice.

What a good result looks like

An example, not your task: You are raising money in the next year and need to know when you must start.

• Monthly model. Revenue, costs, team and cash flow in best, base and worst cases, with every assumption listed.
• Runway forecast. Monthly burn, the cash-out month as a range, the window to raise and what moves it most.
• Unit economics. Unit economics and payback for each group of customers, with the sums shown.
• Cut and raise triggers. Cash levels, set in advance, at which you cut costs or start raising.
• Board pack. Answers to hard questions, raise steps with dilution, and a finance plan for your board.

How the work is checked

• Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.
• The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.
• Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.
• Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.
• States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.

These checks have not been run against a model yet. Your AI uses them to check its own work.

Capabilities

• Build the model. Sets revenue from customers won and kept by group, adds the cost of making and selling, team and fixed costs, rolls it into cash flow, and lists every assumption.
• Forecast the runway. Takes the model's monthly cash with your real history, splits trend and season, adjusts for hiring, and finds the cash-out month as a range.
• Prepare the finance pack. Asks the hard questions, works out unit economics and payback, sets the cash levels at which to cut or raise, lays out the raise steps and assembles the board pack.

How the role works

1. Checks your task, context and available tools.
2. Picks the methods needed and prepares a work plan.
3. Carries out supported tasks, with each method's limits and review gates.
4. Checks the real deliverables and corrects supported faults.
5. Hands back files, evidence and unresolved gaps.

Your specialist's working setup

Download the base specialist without a task form or account. README.md and SETUP.md explain how to use the folder. SOUL.md defines its scope. INTAKE.md asks missing questions inside your AI. PLAYBOOK.md, SKILLS.md, BEST_PRACTICES.md, CHECKS.md and HANDOFF.md guide the work and its checked deliverables.

Complete associated skills, supporting files and licences are included. Choose only the methods needed for the actual task. Keep context, working files and accepted feedback in your AI project.

Use this specialist through MCP or the API

Call prepare_specialist with role_id forecast-your-startup-runway-and-prepare-a-finance-pack only. No task is required to load it. Your AI asks what job you need done, what you want back and which relevant context it can use.

For task-led hiring, call find_specialist, explain the suggested specialists and let the user accept or change the team.

Complete ZIP: Download base specialist. API: GET /api/v1/specialists/forecast-your-startup-runway-and-prepare-a-finance-pack/pack. The host AI supplies its own model, tools and execution; a pack does not connect accounts or run a task.

Inputs and helpful context

The specialist starts from the task brief. Only active methods require their inputs.

For the primary method, when used

• Your plan, with prices, how many customers you expect and how long they stay
• Your team plan and fixed costs
• Your bank balance and 12 or more months of real monthly cash (optional but much better)
• Planned hires, big purchases and any money already promised

Tools and access

• Claude: It can build an Excel workbook with live formulas when file tools are on.
• ChatGPT: Its data analysis tool can build and test a spreadsheet from your inputs.
• Claude: It can run the Python scripts when code tools are on, and shows each step of the maths.
• ChatGPT: Its data analysis tool can load your spreadsheet and edit the scripts.

Functions and deliverables

• Startup cash and board finance planner: Build cash scenarios, estimate when funds may run out and prepare finance choices and triggers for the board.
  • A monthly model with revenue, costs and cash in three cases
  • A cash-out month shown as a range, with the window to raise
  • Unit economics and payback by group of customers
  • Cash levels at which to cut or raise, set in advance
  • A finance plan for your board
• Startup financial model builder: Give your numbers and plans. Get a 3 to 5 year model with revenue, costs, cash flow and scenarios.
  • A revenue forecast built by customer group
  • Costs split by type
  • Cash flow and one runway figure
  • Three cases side by side
  • The assumptions that move the result most
  Source: sickn33.
• Startup cash forecast builder: Use monthly cash flows and growth plans to estimate runway, cash-out ranges, and fundraising timing.
  • An estimated cash-out month with probabilities
  • Current runway in months
  • A trend rating for your burn
  • A split of fixed and variable burn drivers
  • A fundraising trigger date
  Source: GAJETOso.
• Startup finance advisor: Give it your numbers. Get runway scenarios, unit economics and a draft finance pack for board review.
  • Runway for base, good and bad cases
  • Unit economics by customer group and by channel
  • A fundraising timeline with dilution estimates
  • A board finance pack outline
  • Decision triggers tied to runway
  Source: Alireza Rezvani.
• me.md builder: Answer a few questions, or let your AI use what it remembers. Get one private file that tells any AI who you are.
  • One me.md file with up to ten dated sections
  • A list of facts taken from memory, for you to check
  • A short note of what it removed for privacy
  • The two next steps, to save it and set it up

Tasks you can use it for

• You are raising money in the next year and need to know when you must start.
• You are hiring and need to see what it does to the cash-out date.
• A board or investor asks for a finance pack and you have only a spreadsheet of guesses.

Limits to check before starting

• You have no rough plan for revenue yet: spend a week on that first.
• You run an online store and want its cash and stock planned: use the Store financial model builder or the Inventory cash planner.
• You only need a short cash forecast for the next few weeks: use the Cash forecast builder.
• You only want practice for tough board questions: use the Board meeting question coach.

Best way to use this role

Give it one clear outcome, the actual files and a definition of done. Keep the work in one AI project so it can reuse checked context and earlier files.

• Download the handoff pack. It's a zip with HANDOFF.md plus one skill file for each step.
• Give the folder to Claude (in Claude Code, or as files in a Claude Project) and say "Follow HANDOFF.md".
• Give your plan in plain words and your honest numbers. Say which are guesses.
• Add your real monthly bank history before step 2 if you have it.
• Treat the pack as a draft. Have your accountant or adviser review it before it goes to anyone outside.

Read it as data

Read the complete role setup as JSON. Connect your AI to the AI Blocks MCP library and read aiblocks://roles/forecast-your-startup-runway-and-prepare-a-finance-pack for its role instructions and pinned sources.

This is a prepared AI role. No task has run. Your AI carries out authorized work using its available tools and reports the actual deliverables and checks.