See how long the business can operate under real assumptions.
Act as a thoughtful business finance specialist. The task is cash flow runway. Context: [cash balance, monthly inflows, outflows, seasonality].
1. Build a month-by-month low, base and high cash forecast.
2. Separate booked revenue from hopeful pipeline.
3. Identify the lowest-cash month.
4. Give spend or collection levers and trigger dates..
Make it specific to my context and immediately usable. Do not invent current prices, laws, permissions or other missing facts; label what needs checking.
Know whether each sale makes the business healthier.
Act as a thoughtful business finance specialist. The task is unit economics decoder. Context: [price, direct costs, fees, acquisition cost, repeat rate].
1. Calculate contribution margin and payback period.
2. Show sensitivity to returns and support cost.
3. Identify which missing number matters most.
4. Recommend a small test for that number..
Make it specific to my context and immediately usable. Do not invent current prices, laws, permissions or other missing facts; label what needs checking.
Find the lowest sustainable price before negotiating.
Act as a thoughtful business finance specialist. The task is pricing floor calculator. Context: [variable costs, fixed costs, capacity, desired profit].
1. Compute break-even and target-margin prices.
2. Include taxes and payment fees as explicit inputs.
3. Show what volume assumptions change the answer.
4. Give a quote floor with caveats..
Make it specific to my context and immediately usable. Do not invent current prices, laws, permissions or other missing facts; label what needs checking.
Prioritize unpaid invoices without sending everyone the same reminder.
Act as a thoughtful business finance specialist. The task is invoice aging plan. Context: [invoice table, terms, client history, cash need].
1. Group by days overdue and value.
2. Flag disputed invoices separately.
3. Write polite, firm and escalation-stage follow-ups for review.
4. Set a collection tracker and reconciliation rule..
Make it specific to my context and immediately usable. Do not invent current prices, laws, permissions or other missing facts; label what needs checking.
Replace one optimistic sales number with a credible range.
Act as a thoughtful business finance specialist. The task is revenue forecast with ranges. Context: [pipeline, stage conversion, contract sizes, seasonality].
1. Build probability-weighted forecast and scenario bounds.
2. Separate signed from verbal.
3. Show the few deals dominating risk.
4. Define weekly updates and forecast-error review..
Make it specific to my context and immediately usable. Do not invent current prices, laws, permissions or other missing facts; label what needs checking.
Act as a thoughtful business finance specialist. The task is expense category audit. Context: [expense ledger, team, revenue goals, contracts].
1. Separate fixed, variable and discretionary spend.
2. Rank cuts by savings and operational risk.
3. Identify renewal dates.
4. Write a 30-day test and rollback rule..
Make it specific to my context and immediately usable. Do not invent current prices, laws, permissions or other missing facts; label what needs checking.
Estimate value without pretending retention is certain.
Act as a thoughtful business finance specialist. The task is customer lifetime value model. Context: [price, gross margin, churn cohorts, acquisition cost].
1. Choose an appropriate cohort model.
2. Calculate conservative, central and optimistic LTV.
3. Show the assumptions dominating it.
4. Compare payback to cash runway..
Make it specific to my context and immediately usable. Do not invent current prices, laws, permissions or other missing facts; label what needs checking.
Know the exact sales volume needed to stop burning cash.
Act as a thoughtful business finance specialist. The task is break-even scenario table. Context: [price, variable cost, fixed cost, capacity].
1. Calculate contribution per unit and break-even volume.
2. Run price and cost sensitivity.
3. Identify impossible capacity combinations.
4. Write the one weekly metric to watch..
Make it specific to my context and immediately usable. Do not invent current prices, laws, permissions or other missing facts; label what needs checking.
Act as a thoughtful business finance specialist. The task is budget variance narrator. Context: [budget, actuals, dates, projects, known events].
1. Calculate absolute and percentage variances.
2. Separate timing from true overspend.
3. Rank material causes with evidence.
4. Write actions and revised forecast without spin..
Make it specific to my context and immediately usable. Do not invent current prices, laws, permissions or other missing facts; label what needs checking.
Decide when a discount buys growth and when it destroys margin.
Act as a thoughtful business finance specialist. The task is discount decision gate. Context: [normal price, cost, request, customer size, renewal].
1. Calculate margin before and after discount.
2. Set a minimum volume or commitment trade.
3. Write three counteroffers that protect value.
4. Define approval authority..
Make it specific to my context and immediately usable. Do not invent current prices, laws, permissions or other missing facts; label what needs checking.
Make recurring revenue numbers mean what they say.
Act as a thoughtful business finance specialist. The task is saas metric sanity check. Context: [plans, billing data, refunds, upgrades, churn].
1. Define MRR, ARR, gross and net retention.
2. List exclusions and edge cases.
3. Reconcile a sample month step by step.
4. Identify reports that could double-count..
Make it specific to my context and immediately usable. Do not invent current prices, laws, permissions or other missing facts; label what needs checking.
Act as a thoughtful business finance specialist. The task is marketplace take-rate map. Context: [buyers, sellers, GMV, fees, refunds, incentives].
1. Map cash flows per transaction.
2. Calculate net take after payment and support costs.
3. Test fee sensitivity and seller incentives.
4. Identify metrics that signal leakage..
Make it specific to my context and immediately usable. Do not invent current prices, laws, permissions or other missing facts; label what needs checking.
Act as a thoughtful business finance specialist. The task is working capital planner. Context: [inventory, receivables, payables, demand, terms].
1. Compute cash-conversion cycle from inputs.
2. Show how growth changes cash need.
3. Rank levers for collections, stock and supplier terms.
4. Set warning thresholds..
Make it specific to my context and immediately usable. Do not invent current prices, laws, permissions or other missing facts; label what needs checking.
Act as a thoughtful business finance specialist. The task is capital spend case. Context: [purchase price, maintenance, output gain, alternatives].
1. Calculate payback and NPV with stated assumptions.
2. Include training, downtime and resale.
3. Compare buy, lease and outsource.
4. Define a pilot or threshold for committing..
Make it specific to my context and immediately usable. Do not invent current prices, laws, permissions or other missing facts; label what needs checking.
Find spreadsheet errors before a decision relies on them.
Act as a thoughtful business finance specialist. The task is financial model audit. Context: [model structure, assumptions, outputs, sample formulas].
1. Check units, signs, hardcodes, circularity and date alignment.
2. Trace three key outputs to drivers.
3. Run extreme-value tests.
4. Write a prioritized fix list with reproducible evidence..
Make it specific to my context and immediately usable. Do not invent current prices, laws, permissions or other missing facts; label what needs checking.
Raise enough to hit a milestone, not a round number.
Act as a thoughtful business finance specialist. The task is funding need calculator. Context: [cash, burn, milestone, hiring, buffer].
1. Map monthly spend to milestone date.
2. Add contingency and fundraising lead time.
3. Show dilution or debt cost considerations.
4. Define the evidence needed before choosing amount..
Make it specific to my context and immediately usable. Do not invent current prices, laws, permissions or other missing facts; label what needs checking.
Act as a thoughtful business finance specialist. The task is sales commission math. Context: [roles, margins, sales cycle, targets, clawbacks].
1. Choose revenue versus margin basis.
2. Model payouts at low, target and exceptional performance.
3. Test gaming and cancellations.
4. Write transparent plan rules and dispute handling..
Make it specific to my context and immediately usable. Do not invent current prices, laws, permissions or other missing facts; label what needs checking.
Identify exposures before buying every policy offered.
Act as a thoughtful business finance specialist. The task is business insurance inventory. Context: [business model, staff, assets, clients, location].
1. Map operational, liability and cyber exposures.
2. Rank severity and likelihood.
3. List policy terms and exclusions to verify with broker.
4. Make a review trigger when business changes..
Make it specific to my context and immediately usable. Do not invent current prices, laws, permissions or other missing facts; label what needs checking.
Act as a thoughtful business finance specialist. The task is foreign currency exposure. Context: [revenues, costs, currencies, settlement times].
1. Calculate net exposure by currency and month.
2. Run adverse-rate scenarios.
3. Compare natural offsets and simple hedges conceptually.
4. Identify when specialist advice is warranted..
Make it specific to my context and immediately usable. Do not invent current prices, laws, permissions or other missing facts; label what needs checking.
Act as a thoughtful business finance specialist. The task is board metrics one-pager. Context: [business stage, revenue, cash, growth goals].
1. Choose five measures with definitions and trends.
2. Separate realized outcomes from forecasts.
3. Write commentary on variance and action.
4. List questions the board should ask next..
Make it specific to my context and immediately usable. Do not invent current prices, laws, permissions or other missing facts; label what needs checking.