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SaaS Runway Calculator

Estimate runway using cash balance, monthly burn, revenue growth, gross margin, and hiring plans.

Interactive tool

Calculate your SaaS runway.

Enter your current cash, burn, revenue, and growth assumptions to estimate how many months of runway you have before the next financing decision.

Estimated runway i 0 months
Runway risk

Estimated runway is the month when cash reaches zero in this simple model.

Suggested next step

Compare this scenario with your hiring plan, revenue ramp, and fundraising timing.

Current net burn i $0
Cash-out month i Month 0

Runway report

Download a branded SaaS Runway Snapshot.

Get a concise PDF report with your inputs, runway result, cash-out timing, diagnostic interpretation, and next steps.

SaaS Runway Snapshot Maximum two pages, generated from the scenario above.
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Next steps based on your runway

Next decision

Runway is only useful if it changes the next decision.

Offset Partners helps SaaS and AI founders connect runway, burn, hiring, revenue, and fundraising timing into a finance operating cadence.

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Direct answer: A SaaS runway calculator helps founders estimate how long their cash will last under different revenue, expense, gross margin, and hiring assumptions. For fundraising or hiring decisions, pair the result with fractional CFO support for SaaS runway planning.

What this tool should help you answer

The runway calculator will help founders model:

  • Current cash runway
  • Base-case and upside-case revenue growth
  • Hiring plan impact
  • Gross margin impact
  • Burn multiple
  • Fundraise timing

If the model exposes reporting gaps, SaaS controller services can help make monthly burn, revenue, gross margin, and cash reporting reliable enough to use.

Why runway calculators convert well

Runway is one of the highest-intent finance problems for SaaS and AI companies. A founder using this tool is often close to a serious buying moment: fundraising, hiring, cost reduction, reporting cleanup, or CFO support.

After using a runway calculator, founders should compare the model against their accounting data, revenue pipeline, hiring plan, and board reporting package. The SaaS finance readiness checklist is a useful next step before a fundraise or board update.

FAQs

What is runway?

Runway is the estimated amount of time a company can operate before it runs out of cash, based on cash balance and expected net burn.

Should SaaS runway include revenue growth?

Yes, but the model should separate current burn from forecasted revenue growth so founders can understand both base-case and optimistic-case runway.