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Type the question the way a board member would phrase it: why did burn jump, how long is runway, what changed in gross margin. No formulas to build, no pivot table to wrangle. You get a written answer back.
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Ask CX Cash why burn moved or where runway stands, and it answers in plain English with the specific figures it pulled from your connected data, so you prep in minutes and never get caught flat.
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You
Why did burn jump in May?
AI board advisor
Net burn rose to $612K in May, up $188K from April. Two line items drove it: a $140K annual AWS prepay that hit on May 3, and 4 engineering hires that added $61K in payroll. Strip the one-off AWS prepay and underlying burn was $472K, in line with the first-quarter run rate. Runway holds at 14 months.
Figures it cited
May net burn
$612K
▲ +$188K vs April
AWS prepay
$140K
one-off, May 3
New payroll
$61K
4 hires
Runway
14 mo
unchanged
The hard board questions come faster than your spreadsheet can answer them
A director asks why burn spiked, and you say you'll circle back. Then you spend two hours pulling the GL apart to find it was an annual prepay plus a few hires, not a problem. The answer was always in your data. It just sat there in rows nobody had time to read before the meeting, so you walked in guessing at the questions instead of knowing the answers.
What you can do
Every answer cites its figures
It doesn't just say burn went up. It names the dollar amount, the month-over-month change, and the line items behind it, with each number traced to your connected accounting and bank data so you can stand behind it.
One-offs called out
When a swing is a one-time prepay or a timing shift, the answer separates it from the underlying run rate. You walk in able to say what's noise and what's the real trend.
Prep that takes minutes
Run the five questions you know the board will ask before the call. You arrive with the figures and the reasons in hand instead of reverse-engineering them live in front of investors.
Plain English
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Cited
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Onboard in three steps
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Connect your data
Link your accounting and bank accounts. CX Cash reads the actuals so the advisor answers from your real numbers, not estimates you have to caveat.
- 02
Ask your question
Type what you want to know in plain language. The advisor pulls the relevant figures, computes the change, and writes back an answer that names every number it used.
- 03
Take it to the board
Review the cited figures, drill into any one to confirm, and bring the answer straight into your deck or the conversation.
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Questions
Where does the AI board advisor get its numbers? +
From the accounting and bank data you connect to CX Cash. It reads your actual ledger and balances, so the figures it cites are the same ones in your books rather than a model's guess. Each number in an answer traces back to its source so you can verify it before you repeat it to a director.
Can I trust the answers in front of investors? +
Every answer names the specific figures behind it and where they came from, and you can click into any one to see the underlying transactions. The point is that you check the math once, then quote it with confidence, instead of taking a black-box number on faith.
What kinds of questions can it handle? +
The ones boards actually ask: why burn changed, how long runway is, what moved gross margin, how this month compares to last. It handles the follow-ups too, like which line items drove a swing and whether a jump was a one-off or a trend.
Does it separate one-time costs from the real run rate? +
Yes. When a change comes from an annual prepay or a timing shift, the answer flags it and shows the underlying figure with the one-off stripped out, so you can tell the board what's noise and what's the actual direction of the business.
How is this different from a dashboard? +
A dashboard shows you the numbers and leaves you to interpret them. The advisor answers the question directly, explains the why, and cites the figures it used, which is the part you'd otherwise dig out by hand the night before a board call.