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What bluprnts is & who it's for

What bluprnts is and who it's for — a driver-based cashflow forecasting app for founders, finance teams and small businesses that models a business bottom-up.

bluprnts is a cashflow forecasting web app. You describe how your business actually works — what you sell, who you employ, what you spend and how you're funded — and bluprnts derives your forecast profit and loss, balance sheet, cashflow statement, bank balance and the metrics that come off them, including runway and breakeven.

You don't import a year of accounts and extrapolate it. You build the forecast from the drivers you control, and the financial statements fall out of them.

What bluprnts does#

You give bluprnts five kinds of input — your products, sales, employees, costs and financing — and from them it produces:

  • Forecast financial statements — profit and loss, balance sheet and cashflow.
  • Your cash position over time — bank balance month by month, with the lowest point called out.
  • The metrics founders care about — runway, breakeven, margins, and cash in and out.
  • Scenario planning — parallel what-if versions of the whole forecast you can compare side by side (hire faster, raise a round, lose a customer).
  • Project modelling — forecast a single initiative inside an existing business, and toggle it on and off the plan.
  • Traceable numbers — every figure traces back to the drivers that produced it, so you (or an investor, lender or auditor) can see why a number is what it is.
  • Stakeholder reports — polished, audience-specific documents for investors, banks and boards, exported to PDF or shared by link.

Who it's for#

bluprnts is built for the person running the business, not only the person keeping its books:

  • Founders modelling a new venture, a raise or a hire.
  • Finance teams and CFOs who want a driver-based forecast instead of a fragile spreadsheet.
  • Small businesses planning cash, growth and funding.
  • Accountants and advisors, whose clients can actually understand a driver-based model.

It speaks in operational terms — products, people, sales, spend — so you don't need accounting expertise to build a forecast.

How it works#

Most cashflow tools plug into your accounting data and project it forward. bluprnts works the other way around: it builds the forecast bottom-up from your operational drivers and derives the statements from them. That inversion is what lets you:

  • Forecast before you have books — pre-revenue, a new product, a new market.
  • Model decisions, not just trends — "hire three people, launch at £X, raise £Y" are the actual inputs.

Read How forecasts are built for the order bluprnts calculates in, and Driver-based vs historical modelling for why it's built this way.

What you don't need#

You don't need connected accounting data to build a forecast. Xero is an optional input you can add later to ground the model against your real actuals — it isn't the engine.

Where to go next#