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3-year financial projections with clear assumptions

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Build a simple revenue, cost and profit forecast with transparent assumptions, best/worst cases and the numbers investors look at.

Prompt

Act as a startup CFO.

Business: [what you sell and how]
Pricing: [prices]
Current numbers: [monthly revenue, customers, costs — or 'pre-revenue']
Growth plan: [marketing channels, hires, launches]
Starting cash: [amount]

Create:
1. A list of key assumptions (conversion rates, growth rate, churn, average order value, costs) with reasoning
2. A yearly table for 3 years: customers, revenue, cost of sales, gross margin, operating expenses (by category), net profit
3. Monthly cash runway for year 1
4. Best, base and worst-case scenarios
5. Break-even point
6. The 3 assumptions that matter most and how to validate them

Format tables so I can paste them into a spreadsheet.

Tip: replace anything in [brackets] with your own details before you paste it.

#financial projections#business plan#forecasting#startup finance
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