Use cases
It usually starts with the books: the bookkeeper you never chose, the report that is always three weeks late. Then the same ledger feeds a forecast, and every decision gets a number attached. Whether you run a SaaS startup, a factory or a product brand, pick the moment you are in.
Your books
Keep your corporate secretary, move the bookkeeping, and get a set of books you can read any day.
Moving your books off the bookkeeper you never chose
Your bookkeeping came bundled with your corp sec and was bought for filing. Move only the books, with your full history brought across and your sign-off before anything commits.
See howYour books are always three weeks behind
Forward a receipt or a bill and it gets booked. Entries post, expenses categorise, the bank reconciles, and the P&L you open today is today's.
See howBooks that feed your forecast
Once your general ledger is in YourBooks it flows into the YourCFO forecast on its own, so burn, runway and variance come out of the books instead of a spreadsheet.
See howYour kind of business
The chart of accounts and the forecast engine are both seeded to what you sell, so a manufacturer gets a capacity ceiling and a product brand gets a margin waterfall per channel, not a SaaS template.
You run an SME with no finance team
Your accountant files. Nobody tells you how the business is doing this month. YourBooks keeps the books current and readable, and the forecast on the same ledger tells you what the next decision does to cash.
See howYou run a manufacturing business
A chart of accounts with real COGS and inventory lines, and a forecast where output is capped by machines, shifts and yield, so the wall is in the plan rather than found on the floor.
See howYou sell physical products
For brands and retailers selling through D2C, marketplaces and wholesale: books with real COGS and inventory lines, and a forecast built on landed cost, repeat purchase and a margin waterfall per channel.
See howYou run a B2B SaaS startup
Model the drivers that decide a SaaS company's fate, MRR, churn, CAC, and expansion, not just a generic income statement.
See howYou're building in Southeast Asia
Books and a forecast in the currency you operate in, for founders who got their bookkeeper bundled with their corp sec and have no finance team to hand it to.
See howYour forecast
Once the ledger feeds the forecast, every use case is the same move: model a decision, see the drivers it moves, and check it against reality.
Planning a new hire
Model a hire as an initiative and see its true cost, break-even month, and runway impact before you make the offer.
See howPreparing for a fundraise
Investors want to know how you will hit the numbers, not just the numbers. Initiative-based forecasting ties every projection to the decision behind it.
See howLaunching a new product line
Model pricing, acquisition, and full P&L impact of a new product before you write a line of code.
See howReporting to your board
Auto-generate variance analysis with root-cause attribution, so board prep takes 30 minutes, not three days.
See howExtending your runway
Model each cost and revenue lever as an initiative and watch the date your cash runs out move in real time.
See howBuilding your annual operating plan
Build the annual plan as initiatives tied to drivers, then track each one against actuals all year.
See howScenario planning
Stack the decisions you might make into named scenarios and compare their trajectories side by side.
See howCutting burn rate
Model every cost lever as an initiative, so you can trim burn and see exactly what each cut does to growth and runway.
See howModeling a pricing change
Model a price increase or a new tier as an initiative and watch the effect on revenue, churn, and runway before it goes live.
See howPlanning marketing spend
Model a campaign or channel as an initiative tied to the pipeline and revenue it should produce, then check it against actuals.
See howBudget vs actuals
Compare actuals against the plan every month, initiative by initiative, so small gaps surface before they become quarter-end surprises.
See howTiming your next raise
Model runway against the milestones a round needs, so you time the raise before cash forces your hand.
See howYou don't have a CFO
A fractional CFO is out of reach for most early startups. Get the modeling, scenarios, and reporting a CFO would build, as software from day zero.
See howMost founders start with the books, because that is where the numbers already are. A conversation about what you would hand over, what you would keep, and what you would sign off on is the first step.