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Financial planning project — interactive case study

Kestrel Systems.
A 36-month cash plan with three scenarios.

DAX built a transparent model connecting income, costs, hiring and cash-out risk. Adjust a controlled input below to inspect the delivered scenario logic.

36-month projection 3 scenarios every number → its formula 0 libraries specimen KST-36
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01 Delivered financial model

Three scenarios. Every assumption visible.

Use the five controlled inputs to inspect DAX's model. The chart and cash-out date recalculate immediately for each scenario.

FINANCE DESK kestrel systems · fictional
computing live

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payroll + tools + rent today, before new hires
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$9.5k fully-loaded each · one onboards per month from M2
model assumes · growth is net of churn · CAC spend lives inside opex · gross margin set in the unit-economics panel

How long the cash lasts

36 months

Unit economics

recomputes with every keystroke
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Month-end close

period open
Kestrel is fictional — the arithmetic is not · every figure recomputes from the drivers · hover any dotted number for its formula
02 the offer

Priced like a deliverable, not an engagement letter.

Three fixed scopes, fixed day counts. Every capability named below is switched on somewhere in the desk above — nothing on this page is a mockup.

market-calibrated pricing
Snapshot Model
$2953 days
  • 3-statement driver-based model (12-mo monthly)
  • Runway + burn dashboard tab
  • Base-case scenario
  • Loom walkthrough video
live above → the drivers rail + cash curve
most commissioned
Scenario Desk
$6955 days
  • Everything in Snapshot
  • 3 scenario toggles (base/downturn/aggressive)
  • LTV:CAC + payback engine
  • Sensitivity table on 2 key drivers
  • 1 revision round
  • Live 30-min handover call
live above → the three toggles + unit-economics gauges
Investor-Ready
$1,45010 days
  • Everything in Scenario Desk
  • 36-mo forecast + cap-table-aware runway
  • Fundraise sizing (how much to raise, when)
  • Interactive web dashboard version of the model
  • 2 revision rounds
  • 2 weeks of async Q&A support
this page is the format → a live web model
add-ons Extra scenario or business line $150 Pitch-deck financial slides (5) $250 Monthly model refresh w/ actuals $200
03 the gap

What the market gets wrong.

Recurring complaints from financial-modeling buyers on the big marketplaces — and how this desk is built so they can't happen here.

01 · cadence

"The modeling itself was expert-grade. Getting a reply about it took days each time — and the delivery date slid twice."

the dax answer

Every tier above carries a fixed day count, and the build runs in the open: a working link from day two, a dated change note with every push. Progress becomes something you refresh, not something you chase.

02 · absorption

"Round three of revisions, because the first draft modeled someone else's business — not the one described on the kickoff call."

the dax answer

The build starts by mapping drivers in your vocabulary — the drivers rail above is that artifact. Strategy pivots become scenario toggles, not rebuilds, and revision rounds are already in the price, not a negotiation.

03 · self-serve

"A forty-tab workbook arrived. Understanding what the payback number meant still required booking the seller's calendar."

the dax answer

Hover LTV in the desk above — the formula surfaces with your values substituted in. Every delivered cell traces to a named driver and documents itself the way this page does, backed by a recorded walkthrough. You stop renting your own understanding back.

04 · verification

"Four stars and a note that says 'let's see' — paid in full, still no way to tell if the model survives contact with reality."

the dax answer

Acceptance here is operable, not aesthetic: change the burn, watch the cash-out date move; flip a scenario, watch the curve answer. Models are delivered live like this one, so you verify behavior before the balance clears.

04 field index

Four finance services, one desk.

Every finance service DAX sells, pinned to the part of this page that proves it. These cards are the deep-link targets from the catalog.

01 / bookkeeping

Bookkeeping & reconciliation

The month-end close panel at the bottom of the desk is the deliverable in miniature — reconcile, accrue, review, lock: an eight-step close that actually tracks state to a locked period.

02 / modeling

Financial modeling

The desk itself is the proof: a 36-month driver model where runway, breakeven, and every dot on the curve surrender their formulas on hover. "Models that hold up to scrutiny" — demonstrated literally.

03 / fp&a

FP&A & analysis

The scenario toggles and the delta ribbon are FP&A in motion: the same drivers stressed three ways, with variance against plan quantified in months of runway rather than adjectives.

04 / structuring

Tax structuring

The desk's every-number-traces-to-a-driver discipline is how entity and jurisdiction maps get documented too: assumptions written down, effects computed, nothing asserted that can't be shown. Mapping and modeling — not tax advice.

commission

Bring us the burn rate.

Fixed price, fixed days — and the model arrives operable, like this one.

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