AI and burn rate math: how many months until you're broke

Burn rate is how much money your tiny business loses every month, and runway is how many months of cash you have left. AI can crunch the numbers so you stop guessing and know exactly when payday vs. panic day is.

How to use it

• Tell AI your bank balance and monthly costs; it spits out a runway in months
• Ask AI to model what cutting one subscription does to your runway
• Ask AI to project burn for 3 scenarios: bad month, normal, big sale
• Ask AI to flag any cost that's growing faster than revenue

Try it

List all your monthly costs and your cash on hand. Ask AI to calculate your runway and show 3 ways to extend it by 30 days.

Practice this safely

Try this with a school, hobby, or family example where the stakes are low. Use the AI output as a draft you can question, not as the final answer.

1. 1Ask AI to explain burn rate in plain language, then underline anything that sounds uncertain or too broad.
2. 2Give it one detail from "AI and burn rate math: how many months until you're broke" and ask for two possible next steps plus one reason each step might be wrong.
3. 3Check runway against a trusted source, teacher, adult, expert, or original document before you use it.