The Runway dashboard
Read the Runway timeline in bluprnts — when cash runs out, how many months you have, and which sales, people, costs and financing are driving it.
The Runway screen answers one question — how long does the cash last? — and then shows you what is consuming it. It puts your sales, team, costs and financing on a single whole-business timeline, with a net-cashflow ribbon underneath, so the answer and its causes are on the same screen.
Find it in the left sidebar, under Forecast → Runway.
The verdict#
Above the timeline, the headline. It reads one of two ways:
| Verdict | What it means |
|---|---|
| Cash runs out — a month | The bank balance first goes negative then. Underneath: how many months of runway that is, and the lowest point the balance reaches |
| Runway — Fully funded | The balance never goes negative across the forecast. Underneath: the low point and the month it happens |
Fully funded means fully funded across the modelled period only. If your forecast window is two years, it says nothing about the third. See Forecast window.
The timeline#
Below it, every part of the business as a row on one timeline, grouped into four bands:
- Sales
- Employees
- Costs
- Financing
Each row is a bar spanning the months that item is active, coloured by its band, so you can see what starts when, what overlaps, and what is running during the months cash gets tight.
Use Collapse in the page bar to fold every band shut for a whole-business view, and Expand to open them back up. The bands can be sorted, and each band header carries its own headline figure and a count of what's in it.
The net-cashflow ribbon#
Under the timeline, NET CASHFLOW — "Monthly cash movement · line shows cash balance":
- The bars are each month's real net movement, every cash line summed, interest and tax among them.
- The line is the resulting bank balance.
- A marker — "Cash out" — sits on the month the balance first goes negative.
The bars and the line answer different questions and neither means much alone: the bars say what happened in the month, the line says where it left you. A run of small negative bars is survivable with a big balance and fatal without one.
Reading it together#
The bands exist so you can attribute the shape of the ribbon. When the balance dips, look up: the rows running through that month are what's causing it. That is usually faster than working backwards from the cash flow statement, because it shows you the things rather than the amounts.
Before there's a plan#
"Nothing to show yet — add sales, people, costs or financing." The timeline is built from those four domains, so it stays empty until at least one of them has something in it.
Related#
- Runway — how bluprnts calculates it.
- Cash flow statement — the movements behind the ribbon.
- Add financing — the usual answer to a short runway.