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The Founders Finance Kit
A free five-year financial model for startup founders. Not a blank template: answer a short set of questions and get a seven-sheet Excel workbook built on your numbers, with 60 months, three scenarios and live formulas.
Build your forecastFree, and no account. About five minutes.
A real dashboard from a seed-stage forecast built with the kit.
What it does
Answer questions, get a model
You answer a short sequence of questions about revenue, costs, headcount and funding, and get a complete five-year model back in about five minutes. No call, no account, no cost.
A five-year model
Sixty months of revenue, costs, headcount and cash, projected from the assumptions you enter.
Live Excel formulas
The workbook calculates: change an assumption and every downstream figure recalculates. Nothing is pasted in as a flat value.
Three scenarios
The same model run at a conservative, base and aggressive set of assumptions, so you can see the spread rather than a single line.
What you get
A seven-sheet Excel workbook
Live formulas throughout, so changing an assumption recalculates everything. It is your file: download it, edit it, send it on.
The seven sheets
- Dashboard: the headline picture, revenue, costs, cash and runway on one page.
- Forecast: the full monthly P&L and cash position for 60 months.
- KPIs: growth, margin, burn and runway by month.
- Assumptions: every input in one place; change any of them and the model recalculates.
- Headcount: hires by role, month and fully loaded cost.
- Fundraising: rounds, timing and how each changes runway.
- Scenarios: conservative, base and aggressive side by side.
The kit is a forecasting tool. It projects your own assumptions forward: it is not financial, investment or tax advice, and the numbers it produces are only as good as the inputs you give it.
Who it's for
- Founders who need a defensible model without paying for one
- Anyone who wants to sanity-check their numbers before a raise
- Operators building a first budget who want the structure already in place
FAQ
Fair questions
What does the free financial model include?
Seven sheets, 60 months, three scenarios, live Excel formulas throughout. It is your file to download, edit and send on. Nothing is pasted in as a flat value.
How is this different from a financial model template?
A template is a blank spreadsheet you have to fill in and wire up. The Kit asks you the questions, builds the workbook from your answers, and gives you a working model in about five minutes. You can then edit it like any Excel file.
Want it built on real numbers?
Use the kit first. If you want the model built on your actual books and defended in front of investors, book a 15-minute call.