Plan drift is hard to notice early
Hiring, churn, sales velocity and pricing rarely miss all at once. Small deviations compound before they become obvious in the bank balance.
Know when your plan is starting to drift.
Bearing compares the model you raised on with your actual cash, revenue, burn and hiring. Each month, it shows what moved, which assumption caused it, and what that change does to runway.
Read-only connections
You control investor sharing
Disconnect anytime
Monthly check
Synced today
Your plan vs actual
September · example company
Runway
7.7 mo
Plan: 11.0 mo · −3.3 mo
Monthly churn
3.9%
Plan: 1.5% · +2.4 pp
Cash vs plan
−19%
CHF 263k behind plan
Cash runwayActual vs fundraise plan
Churn is the largest driver of the runway gap.
If churn returns to plan while everything else stays unchanged, the model adds roughly 1.4 months of runway.
The model mattered during the raise. It should still matter after it.
Your bank balance tells you what happened. Your plan tells you what was supposed to happen. Bearing keeps the two connected, month after month.
Runway is an output, not an explanation
Knowing that runway fell is useful. Knowing which assumption caused it — and what happens if you fix it — is more useful.
Investor updates become a separate job
The same monthly analysis can become the basis for an investor update, but the founder decides what is actually shared.
One model. One monthly reality check.
Bearing keeps the operating assumptions from your fundraise visible after the round closes, so a small miss in churn, hiring or sales does not disappear inside a single runway number.
Plan assumptionsBaseline
Actual operating dataCurrent
Variance & scenariosMonthly
Small misses compound faster than they look.
The useful moment is before a runway problem is obvious — while there is still time to change the assumptions driving it.
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of VC-backed startups that shut down since 2023 ran out of money.
CB Insights, 20260 mo
median time from the last funding round to shutting down.
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of startups hit their own projections, by VCs’ estimate.
Gompers et al., 2020Connect once. Check the plan every month.
Your forecast stays tied to the numbers the company is actually producing.
Connect the sources you choose
Bring the model you raised on, plus read-only bank and accounting data. Each source can be added or removed independently.
Reconcile plan with actuals
Bearing maps the model to actual cash, revenue, burn, hiring and other operating drivers, then checks the same assumptions every month.
Review the gap before it compounds
See what moved, what it does to runway, and a small set of scenarios that help you decide what to investigate next.
See the gap, the driver and the next scenario.
Every result stays tied to the underlying numbers — not a black-box score.
Forward scenarios from your own operating model
Test the changes that matter — churn, hiring, revenue and burn — and see their effect on runway.
ScenarioRunwayImpact
Current trajectory7.7 mo−3.3 mo
Churn returns to 1.5%9.1 mo+1.4 mo
Delay 2 hires by 90 days8.8 mo+1.1 mo
Revenue stays 18% below plan6.9 mo−0.8 mo
The assumptions behind the gap
Each operating driver is visible, not hidden behind one score.
Monthly churnBreaking
New customersBreaking
Team sizeDrifting
Price per customerOn plan
Investor updates on your terms
Use the same monthly analysis to prepare an update, then explicitly choose what leaves the founder workspace.
Cash & runwayShare
BurnShare
Customer churnPrivate
Your financial data stays under your control.
Connect only what you choose. Nothing is shared with investors unless you approve it.
Read-only access
Bearing reads balances and transactions. It cannot initiate payments or move funds.
Founder-controlled sharing
No investor receives company data unless the founder explicitly approves what is shared.
You approve every action
Bearing can surface variance and scenarios, but it never changes your plan or sends an investor update on its own.
Clear data lifecycle
You should always be able to see what is stored, what it is used for, and remove your connected sources.
See your company against the plan you raised on.
Get a clearer monthly view of plan vs actual, runway, and the assumptions driving both.
Early access · EPFL student research project