Finance & FP&A

Burn, runway, and revenue — pulled, not chased

Financial dashboards that update from Xero, Stripe, and your CRM. AI commentary on what changed and why, drafted weekly.

The finance reporting bottleneck

·MRR/ARR lives in Stripe; expenses live in Xero; pipeline lives in the CRM. Every report joins all three.
·Burn and runway calculated from a spreadsheet that someone has to update every month.
·Variance analysis is 'pull the actual, compare to plan, write up the why' — every month, by hand.
·Cash position updates lag by a week because nobody has time to refresh the model.
·Investors ask 'how are we tracking?' and you spend an afternoon building the answer.
·A burn surprise should be a one-day alert, not a two-week reconciliation.

Your week, before and after

Without Chartcastr
  • Manual joins between Stripe, accounting, and the CRM.
  • Burn and runway updated monthly because that's all anyone can sustain.
  • Variance analysis as a recurring multi-day exercise.
  • Investor updates written from scratch every month.
With Chartcastr
  • MRR, ARR, burn, and runway updated automatically from live sources.
  • Variance analysis drafted with AI commentary you edit and send.
  • Cash position visible weekly, not monthly.
  • Investor updates with the same data underneath as your board deck.

The numbers that matter, refreshed before you ask

MRR and ARR tracking

Live from Stripe and your billing system, broken out by plan, cohort, and segment. Net new, expansion, churn — every week.

Burn and runway

Calculated from your accounting data, with scenarios for current burn, plan burn, and worst case.

Cash position

Up-to-date cash visibility pulled from your bank feeds via Xero or QuickBooks. Weekly, not monthly.

Variance analysis

Actual vs. plan by category, with AI commentary on the biggest variances and likely causes.

AI-drafted finance commentary

What changed, what to flag for the exec team, what to explain to the board — drafted in the measured tone finance reporting expects.

Burn anomaly alerts

When monthly burn breaks its normal range, get flagged the day it happens — not at month-end close.

A typical weekly finance digest

1

Revenue snapshot

MRR, ARR, net new, expansion, churn — period over period with AI commentary on the deltas.

2

Burn and runway

This month's burn rate, runway based on current trajectory, and changes since last month.

3

Variance vs. plan

Biggest variances by category, with attribution drafted from the underlying transactions and context.

4

What to flag

Items the AI thinks deserve exec attention — burn acceleration, churn signals, or unexpected expense growth.

Frequently asked questions

Which accounting systems do you support?

Xero is live. QuickBooks Online and other systems are on the roadmap or in early access — check the integrations page for current status.

Can I connect Stripe directly?

Yes. Stripe data feeds MRR, ARR, and revenue reporting. Combined with accounting data, you get the full picture without manual joins.

Does this replace our FP&A model?

No. Chartcastr handles the data pull and the weekly commentary — your model still defines plan and scenarios. Think of it as the data layer that keeps your model fed and your investors informed.

What about board reporting?

Same data sources feed your board deck. Check the board decks solution for the quarterly version of this same flow.

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