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08 · Forecasting

Forecasts with the uncertainty shown.

Autessa projects revenue, burn, and runway from your actuals — and shows the confidence range, not a single false-precision line.

Ranges, not guesses

The problem

A single forecast line hides the risk that matters.

A forecast presented as a single number implies a precision that does not exist. Planning against that one line means you are blind to the downside until it arrives.

Why it happens

A spreadsheet model outputs one number per period, so the forecast that reaches the board is a single line. The range it came from — the assumptions, the spread — gets flattened away before anyone sees it.

Where it lands

You plan hiring, spend, and fundraising against a point estimate. When actuals land on the low side of a range you never saw, the runway you counted on is suddenly months shorter.

What it is

The hard part is not projecting a number. It is honestly quantifying how confident that number is, and keeping that uncertainty visible all the way to the decision.

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The solution

Projections, with the confidence range kept visible.

Autessa projects revenue, burn, and runway from your actuals — and crucially shows the confidence range, not a single false-precision line. You see the likely case and the downside, so you can plan for both.

Project

Built from your actuals

Revenue, burn, and runway are projected from your real ledgers, not a generic template, so the forecast reflects how your business actually behaves.

Last 12 months actuals → 6-month projection
Show the range

Likely, downside, and upside

Every projection carries its confidence band — P50, P10, P90 — so you plan against the spread instead of a false-precision single line.

P10 $3.3M · P50 $4.1M · P90 $4.8M
The point is not a prettier chart. Autessa keeps the uncertainty attached to the number all the way to the decision, so when you plan a hire or a raise you are looking at the downside case, not just the one that makes the slide look good.
Ranges, not guesses

How it fits

Forecasts that stay current on their own.

Autessa reads your actuals as they post, re-projects, and shows the updated range. There is no monthly rebuild of a spreadsheet model, and nothing to re-key.

1Actuals are read from your ledgers as they post
2Revenue, burn, and runway are re-projected automatically
3The confidence range is recomputed: P10, P50, P90
4You review the updated forecast and the assumptions behind it
5Plan against the range — and see it shift as reality does

The judgment stays with you. Autessa shows the likely case and the downside; you decide how to plan against them.

Because it runs off your live actuals, the forecast does not drift out of date the way a hand-built model does between closes.

This is one of several finance workflows Autessa runs. Start here; the rest is there when you want it. See all →

Questions finance teams ask

Straight answers before you book.

Why show a range instead of one number?+

A single forecast number implies a precision that does not exist. Autessa shows the likely case (P50) alongside the downside (P10) and upside (P90), so you can plan for the range rather than be surprised by it.

What is the forecast based on?+

Your actuals. Revenue, burn, and runway are projected from your real numbers, so the ranges reflect your business rather than a generic model.

What do P10, P50, and P90 mean here?+

They are the confidence range. P50 is the likely case, P10 the downside you should be able to weather, and P90 the upside. Showing all three keeps the uncertainty visible so you plan against the spread instead of a single false-precision line.

How often does the forecast update?+

It re-projects as your actuals post, so the forecast and its range stay current between closes rather than drifting out of date the way a hand-built model does until someone rebuilds it.

Can I see how a decision changes the runway range?+

Yes. Because the projection runs off your live numbers, a change like a planned hire shifts the likely case and the downside together, so you can see how a decision moves the whole range — not just the headline number.

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See your forecast with the uncertainty shown.

Thirty minutes on a forecast built from numbers like yours — the likely case, the downside, and the upside, side by side. Then prove it on your own actuals.

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