What the business does
A design studio selling productised brand sprints to early-stage software companies, delivered by a small senior team.
A short set of plain questions about what your business does, who it serves and how it makes money. The answers become the backbone of your Business Plan and the source your investor deck is drafted from.
Short answers, clearly organised, alongside the headline figures your forecast produces.
Once for the business plan, once for the deck, once for the loan application, and once more for the person who asks what you actually do. Each version drifts a little further from the last.
The Business Brief is the single answer. Write it carefully once, and every document that needs your story starts from the same place.
That last one is deterministic and rules-based: it proposes a checklist you accept or ignore, and it runs without sending anything to an external model.
The Business Plan chapters stay wired to the live numbers. When we updated pricing, the story and the financials moved together — no more pasting screenshots into a deck the night before.
Camille BrooksMinutes, if you know your business. The questions are short and plain — what you do, who you serve, how you charge, where you are. You can come back and sharpen the answers any time.
No, but filling it in first means Forecast Starter can suggest a sensible set of revenue streams and expenses for your business type rather than leaving you with an empty table.
Yes, and you should — the description of a business at month three is rarely the right one at month eighteen. Re-drafting the deck afterwards picks up the new answers.
Ready to see the numbers?
No spreadsheets. No accountant required. Just your assumptions — and the complete financial picture that follows.
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