If your strategy meetings feel less like decision-making and more like expensive guesswork, your financial foundation needs shoring up. You don’t need Wall Street complexity — you need three simple, interconnected models.

Model 1 — The Revenue Capacity Model. This determines your maximum service delivery potential. It answers: how many clients can we truly handle before we break? It tells you when to hire, not if you should.

Model 2 — The Cash Flow Runway Model. Most founders know their current bank balance. Fewer know exactly how many months they can operate if revenue dipped 20%. This model turns “will we make it?” into “we have 7.4 months of runway.”

Model 3 — The Unit Economics Model. Your profitability cheat sheet. Calculate your CAC and LTV for each service line. If a service has high CAC and low LTV, you stop selling it — it’s that simple.

How the three work together: Unit Economics tells you which services to sell more of. Revenue Capacity tells you when you need to hire to deliver more. Cash Flow Runway tells you whether you can afford to hire right now.

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