Financial Modeling with AI

## What You'll Learn - The 4 financial metrics every founder must track (revenue, burn rate, unit economics, runway) - How to build a simple 3-tab financial model in 30 minutes - Using AI for scenario planning: best case, worst case, base case - 3 complete examples: SaaS pricing model, hiring plan, fundraising runway - Sensitivity analysis with AI (testing "what if" scenarios) - When to hire a CFO vs. when AI + a good template is enough --- ## Why This Matters (3 min read) **The Founder's Financial Blind Spot:** You're 3 months into your startup. A potential investor asks: - "What's your monthly burn rate?" - "When will you hit profitability?" - "What's your customer lifetime value compared to acquisition cost?" - "How long is your runway if sales slow down by 30%?" You freeze. You have a rough sense of the numbers, but no systematic way to model different scenarios. You've been too busy building product to build financial models. **This is how startups die.** --- **The Hidden Danger:** According to CB Insights, **38% of startups fail because they run out of cash**—not because the product was bad, but because founders didn't model their runway accurately. The...