We built the finance teammate we kept trying to hire too early.

We have built, scaled, and stumbled through several startups. The products changed. The same finance job kept landing on a founder.

Update the runway. Work out what the next hire really costs. Prep the board numbers. Pull together the documents. Answer whether the company can afford the decision sitting in front of it.

Early on, we did not know enough. Later, we knew exactly what to do and still lost nights doing it. The available tools either assumed a finance team or stopped after telling us what had already happened.

Time spent around other founders through Techstars and Plug and Play made the pattern hard to ignore. Bootstrapped founders, accelerator teams, angel-backed startups, and growing venture teams all faced the same gap: real financial decisions, with no full finance function to own them.

Runwait is built for that gap.

One living runway. One agent available in the product and Slack. Every figure calculated by code, with the basis shown. Enough clarity to make the next decision before you hire finance.