Still yours to shape
Add ventures, costs and accounts however your business actually works — the structure bends to you, not the other way round.
A fair comparison
CentralHq vs. a spreadsheet.
A spreadsheet is a brilliant place to start tracking your runway — how many months of cash you have left. It's free, it's flexible, and you already know it. The trouble isn't the spreadsheet; it's what happens after you build it. Here's the honest difference.
Side by side
Same job, two very different outcomes.
What you're doingA spreadsheetCCentralHq
Keeping it currentYou update it by hand — it's only as fresh as the last time you rememberedRunway is computed live from your real cash and costs
Money and workLive in different files — the cost of a project and the project itself never meetIn one place — every cost and dollar is tied to the work behind it
Getting it rightOne wrong formula or stray cell and the number's quietly offThe runway maths is built in — cash divided by net burn, every time
Per-venture truthHard to see what each project really earns versus costsEach venture's earns-vs-costs, rolled up into one runway
Dates that biteA renewal or filing is a row you have to remember to look atA "coming up" radar surfaces them, soonest first
The costFree, and you already know itFree to start too — 3 ventures and 3 members, no card
To be fair to the spreadsheet: it's free, endlessly flexible, and perfect for a first pass. CentralHq is for the moment that stops being enough — when the updating slips and the number you're betting on quietly drifts from the truth.
The catch
A spreadsheet is only as true as your last edit.
The number looks authoritative, but it froze the moment you stopped typing. A cost you forgot to add, an invoice that came in, a hire you made — none of it is in there until you put it there. So the runway you're steering by is, quietly, last month's.
- It doesn't know about money that moved since you last opened it
- "I'll update it later" is how the number goes stale
- The more it matters, the more often it's wrong
The difference
CentralHq computes it live, so it can't go stale.
Because your cash, costs and income all live in one place, your runway is worked out from them every time you look — cash on hand divided by net burn. Record a cost or an invoice and the months left move with it. Nothing to re-key, nothing to forget.
- Runway built from your real numbers, not a snapshot
- Costs tied to the work, so the picture is honest
- An on-track or at-risk read you can actually trust
Bring it with you
You don't lose what the spreadsheet gave you.
Still free to start
Three ventures and three members, live spend and runway, no card. The price of starting is the same as a spreadsheet: nothing.
Built for one or many
One person with side projects or a house running many ventures — the runway always rolls up into one honest number.
Free forever to startNever goes staleNo card needed
Stop tracking your runway in a spreadsheet.
Move the number that matters somewhere it stays true. Start free; upgrade when you grow.
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