Extend cash runway with a prioritized cash conservation plan
A ranked set of cash levers with savings, timing, and risk, plus the updated runway for each scenario.
The prompt
Help me build a plan to extend our cash runway.
Current cash and committed facilities: [AMOUNTS]
Monthly burn: [PASTE monthly cash in/out for the last 6 months and the next 12 forecast]
Runway target: [e.g. "reach 24 months" or "reach breakeven before cash falls below $X"]
Cost base: [PASTE: headcount cost by team, top 20 vendors, rent, marketing, other]
Revenue and collections: [billing terms, DSO, overdue receivables]
Constraints: [teams or projects that must be protected, contracts that cannot change]
Consider levers across: hiring freezes and timing, vendor renegotiation and cancellation, marketing efficiency, payment terms (collect faster, pay on terms), annual prepay incentives, capex deferral, real estate, and financing options.
Return:
1. A lever table: Lever | Monthly saving | Start month | One-time cost | Risk to growth | Reversible? | Owner.
2. Three packages (light, moderate, deep) with the resulting runway for each, month by month.
3. Cash-trigger points: the cash balance at which each package should start.
4. The order to communicate changes, and what to tell the board and the team.
Use my numbers only; mark missing data as [ADD]. Treat financing options as general information to confirm with your advisors. Any layoffs need HR and legal review for local law and fair process.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- AMOUNTS
- billing terms, DSO, overdue receivables
- ADD
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the RTF structure (Role, Task, Format). RTF tells the model who to be, what to do and what shape the answer should take. It is the quickest structure that still gives noticeably better results than a bare request.
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