Runway Tool

How the Foresight financial models forecast deferred revenue

How to use the prebuilt Forecasting Drivers to easily create dynamic forecasts.

By default, the models are built by month for either 3 or 5 years. Here's how to extend them if you need to model more periods.

The Forecast sheet is the core sheet for entering expenses, creating a hiring plan, reporting revenues and billings, fundraising, and all the root calculations. Here's an explainer on how it works.

Get Started is the core input sheet for all Foresight Models. Here's how it works.

The Key Reports sheet consists of prebuilt charts for burn, runway, cash, sources and uses, and many other key metrics.

Model checks is a feature on the base startup models to help identify model errors or business issues. Here's how it works.

How to use the seaonality feature in the Foresight financial models

A key part of creating a fundraising ask is understanding and communicating how the money will be raised. A sources and uses chart is a fairly standard way to communicate it, and a summary of the key expenses helps to tell the full story. Here's how I do it.

The Summary sheet is the first place to view to communicate the key insights about the business to the intended audience of the model.

How Foresight's models calculate corporate income taxes and VAT.

Five year financial model template to plan your expenses, create a cash budget and forecast runway. Prebuilt consolidated three statement model - income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows - and key charts and summaries.