We’re building a founder-first AI-native CFO simulator that combines runway tracking, scenario modeling, and peer benchmarking to give startups the financial clarity they need to survive and grow.
1. Lack of Financial Visibility for Founders
- 42% of startups fail because they run out of money, not because of poor ideas.
- Early-stage (pre-seed/seed/Series A) founders often don’t know how much runway they have left or how fast they’re burning cash.
2. Tools Are Too Complex or Too Basic
- Current FP&A tools (Pigment, Anaplan, Jirav) are enterprise-grade, built for CFOs, and too expensive for small startups.
- Simpler solutions (Excel, Google Sheets, QuickBooks dashboards) are error-prone, messy, and don’t give forward-looking insights.
3. No Easy Way to Simulate Scenarios
- Founders need to know: “What happens if I hire 2 engineers? Cut marketing? Increase churn?”
- Today, this requires manual spreadsheets or a CFO — not accessible to most early founders.
4. Lack of Benchmarks & Context
- Even if they see their runway, founders don’t know if they’re spending like peers.
- We use AI agents to benchmark CAC, burn ratios, and Rule of 40 against industry peers and competitors, such as Pitchbook, Carta, and Crunchbase, offering real-time recommendations.
5. Pain = Stress + Risk of Failure
- Founders are stressed because they don’t know if they’re financially healthy or dying.
- This leads to fundraising too late, overspending on the wrong categories, or scaling unsustainably.
https://lovable.dev/projects/7e6dde85-e666-449d-8448-ec99b215aee1
(open to collabs) https://github.com/yijyunc/CFO-in-your-pocket
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