Documentation
Concepts
How bluprnts thinks about forecasting: driver-based modelling, the three layers of base plan, projects and scenarios, and how runway, breakeven, unit economics and tax are derived.
- Driver-based vs historical modelling
bluprnts builds your forecast from operational drivers — products, sales, people, costs, financing — and derives the accounting, rather than…
- Base plan, projects & scenarios
The three layers of a bluprnts model — the base plan you've committed to, projects you're considering adding, and scenarios testing how confident…
- Provenance & traceability
Every figure in bluprnts traces back to the drivers that produced it — no hidden formulas, and an explanation attached to each statement line and…
- How runway is calculated
bluprnts calculates runway from your forecast bank balance — the months before it first goes negative — not from a burn-rate estimate.
- How breakeven is derived
bluprnts finds your breakeven month from the forecast profit after tax — the month it turns positive and holds — rather than from a fixed-cost…
- Loaded employee cost & on-costs
What a hire actually costs in bluprnts — salary plus employer's NIC, pension and bonus — and why the loaded cost is the figure to plan against.
- Unit economics
How bluprnts calculates the economics of a single sale — revenue per unit, cost per unit and the margin left — live as you set a product's price and…
- Seasonality & growth
How bluprnts varies a sale across the year and grows it year on year — seasonality profiles, and compound or step increases to price and volume.
- VAT & tax in the forecast
How VAT, corporation tax, duty and NIC flow through a bluprnts forecast — what hits profit, what only moves cash, and when each falls due.
- Modelling states
How bluprnts distinguishes what's happening now from what's planned — hired versus planned roles, enabled projects, and what counts toward today's…