From five questions to a document a lender can check
The order is deliberate: words first, money last. You describe the business while you can still think about it plainly, and the arithmetic comes after — by which point the software already knows enough to fill most of it in.
Setup
Five questions, and nothing starts empty.
- Business type — service, retailer, manufacturer, distributor, non-profit or genuinely mixed. It sets how stock, margin and cash behave.
- How much plan you need: from Simple up to Comprehensive, or Regulated, which is a different document rather than a longer one.
- Your currency, which preloads a full set of editable assumptions.
- Your industry, searched across UK SIC 2007 and 2026, NACE and NAICS at once — or typed in your own words if none of them fit.
The interview
Ten questions, asked once, used everywhere.
- What you sell, who buys it, why you, what it costs, what makes it hard to copy, and who will read the plan.
- The answers seed the section worksheets, so finishing the interview writes eighteen sections of the document immediately — offline, with no AI key.
- Your sentences are never spliced mid-clause. Your words always start a sentence, so the draft still sounds like you wrote it.
The sections
A worksheet instead of a blank page.
- Forty-three sections turn their heading into four to nine plain questions. Answer them and the section composes itself.
- Underneath each one is a list of what a reader would still ask — the gaps, named, rather than a green tick on an empty section.
- Nothing is asked twice: if the plan already knows something structurally, the worksheet reads it instead of asking again.
The numbers
A forecast you can explain the working for.
- Prices and volumes with seasonality, staff, expenses from a catalogue of lender-recognised categories, and a cost build-up that derives your cost per unit and margin.
- A Personal Survival Budget — what the household actually needs — which the engine charges to cash every month whether or not there is a profit, because that is what a drawing does.
- Profit and loss, cash flow and balance sheet for 60 months, plus ten charts, recomputed on every keystroke.
- A live auditor scores readiness and names what is missing, in the words a lender would use.
The writing
Optional AI, on a short leash.
- Bring your own API key. It is stored in your browser, never on our server, and you can work with no key at all — the offline composer writes every section from your worksheet answers.
- The model is given the section’s own guide, your answers, and a fact sheet of computed figures. It is told to calculate nothing.
- "Write it all" runs the whole document in one pass; every draft can be rewritten with an instruction, and undone in one click.
Afterwards
The part most plan software skips.
- Enter five real figures a month and see variance against plan, both for the month and cumulatively.
- A Year-1 re-forecast at the run rate you have actually achieved.
- Your cash plan against your bank balance, and the auditor’s findings on the difference.
What it does not do. There is no bank feed and no accounting integration: actuals are typed in, five figures a month. Years two to five are entered as annual totals rather than month by month. There is no Word export — the document is produced as a print-ready PDF, with the financials as CSV and the whole plan as JSON.