# 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.

- Topic: Finance & Accounting
- Framework: RTF
- Level: Standard
- Tags: Finance, Productivity, Plan, Fill-in Template
- Source: https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/prompts/extend-cash-runway-with-a-prioritized-cash-conservation-plan

## Prompt

```text
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.
```

## What to fill in

- AMOUNTS
- billing terms, DSO, overdue receivables
- ADD

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