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A 10-minute tour

A ten-minute tour of bluprnts — from picking up a demo company to reading its forecast statements, runway and reports before you build your own.

This is a quick map of bluprnts — the screens you'll use and what each one is for. It takes about ten minutes, and the best way to follow along is in the live demo: demo.bluprnts.ai opens a made-up company with no sign-up and nothing to save, so you can click anything.

Down the left, bluprnts groups its screens into three ideas: the plan (what you put in), the forecast (what comes out), and what-if (versions of the plan).

Pick up a demo company#

Open demo.bluprnts.ai and choose one of the sample businesses — a café, a bike shop, a SaaS company, and more. Each one is a complete, worked forecast you can explore and change. Nothing you edit is saved or leaves your browser, so it's a safe place to poke around.

The plan — your inputs#

Under The plan you describe how the business works. These are the drivers everything else is derived from:

  • Products — what you sell, and its price and unit costs.
  • Sales — selling a product through a channel at a monthly volume.
  • Employees — your team, modelled as roles with a fully loaded cost.
  • Costs — spending that isn't a product cost or a person.
  • Financing — loans and investments that fund the business.

Each has a full guide under Building your model.

The forecast — your outputs#

From those inputs, bluprnts derives the forecast and shows it a few ways:

  • Overview — your headline numbers, lowest cash point and breakeven month, with a plain-English read of the plan.
  • Waterfall — what drives your cash up and down each period.
  • Runway — how long your cash lasts and when it runs low.
  • Financials — the full profit and loss, balance sheet and cashflow statement, plus ratios.
  • Plan vs Actual — your forecast against real results once you connect Xero.

What-if — versions of the plan#

Under What-if you test decisions without disturbing your working plan:

  • Projects — model a single initiative (a launch, a new site) inside the business and toggle it on or off. See Add a project.
  • Scenarios — parallel what-if versions of the whole forecast you can compare side by side. See What scenarios are.

Reports & the assistant#

Two more things worth knowing:

  • Reports turn your forecast into a polished document for investors, banks or a board — exported to PDF or shared by link. See What a report is.
  • The AI assistant answers questions about your forecast and can build and adjust the model for you. See What the AI assistant can do.

Where to go next#