Build your 13-week cash-flow forecast
Weekly cash, committed payments, scenarios, and shortfalls in one view.
What does this agent do?
OpenBooks builds a 13-week cash-flow forecast from reconciled cash, expected receipts, bills, payroll, debt, and other known activity, while keeping assumptions visibly separate from committed amounts.
What OpenBooks needs
- Bank feed connected
- Open bills and expected receipts current
What OpenBooks will do
- I establish the opening cash balance from reconciled accounts.
- I schedule payroll, bills, debt, grants, donations, invoices, and other expected cash activity.
- I separate committed items from assumptions and show the confidence behind each one.
- I calculate weekly ending cash and surface the first projected shortfall.
- I prepare base, conservative, and timing scenarios for your team to review.
What you get
A 13-week cash-flow forecast with weekly balances, assumptions, scenarios, and early warnings.
Know exactly what you’ll receive
See cash pressure early enough to change timing, collect revenue, or make a deliberate spending decision.
- Weekly opening and ending cash
- Expected inflows and committed outflows
- Assumption and confidence register
- Base and downside scenarios
- Shortfall alerts and decisions needed
A clear fit before you start
Nonprofits, campaigns, associations, and small organizations managing near-term liquidity.
You can customize
- Forecast start date
- Accounts and minimum cash target
- Scenario assumptions
- Owners and update cadence
OpenBooks prepares. You decide.
- 1
OpenBooks builds the forecast and labels assumptions separately from committed cash.
- 2
Revenue and spending owners confirm timing and scenario inputs.
- 3
Your finance lead approves the forecast used for operating decisions.
Before you start
Why use a 13-week cash-flow forecast?
Thirteen weeks is detailed enough for weekly operating decisions while extending far enough to expose payroll, payment, and collection pressure before it becomes urgent.
Does OpenBooks treat projected income as guaranteed?
No. Expected receipts and other assumptions are labeled with their source and confidence so they are not confused with committed cash.
Can I edit the draft before anything happens?
Yes. OpenBooks prepares a private draft and surfaces questions. You can correct the narrative, classifications, figures, and recipients before approval.
Does OpenBooks make the final decision or submit for me?
No. OpenBooks prepares and organizes the work. Your authorized human reviews every consequential decision and handles certification or final submission where required.
How is each number verified?
Figures stay linked to the underlying ledger, transactions, and available evidence so reviewers can trace the source instead of relying on a summary alone.
What if my books are not ready?
Start anyway. OpenBooks identifies the missing prerequisites and unresolved items so you have a concrete checklist instead of discovering gaps at the deadline.
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- How do I build a 13-week cash flow forecast?
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A 13-week cash-flow forecast with weekly balances, assumptions, scenarios, and early warnings.
~10 min for the first draft; designed for a short weekly refresh.