Cash saved
+$1.7M
Set your targets
Choose your future. Make it the plan.
Most plans are a number in a board deck and a hope. Beacon turns planning into a real decision: see whole-company futures side by side, answer the five questions that decide the year, and seal the one you choose as the plan of record — live targets that reach every team the moment you commit.
The decision, in one place
Illustrative · the Grow-hard path
What will we be worth?✓$280M
What has to be financed?✓$30M round
Is it realistic?✓Ambitious · 74%
Can we afford the people?✓+22 hires
Does the whole system clear it?✓Green-light
✓
Sealed as the plan of record$52M ARR · by Dec 2027
Why plans don't survive contact
You bet the year on one spreadsheet — and one person's assumptions.
One scenario
You commit
A single number, chosen in a room and written into the deck.
Never costed
The paths you didn't take. You'll never know what they were worth.
Built in a silo
You commit
A revenue plan, a hiring plan and a cash plan — drawn up apart.
The catch
They meet for the first time when they collide — two quarters in.
Frozen on signing
You commit
A static deck, agreed once and filed away for the year.
The catch
The world moves; the plan doesn't. Re-planning reopens the whole fight.
The most leveraged decision, the least examined.You commit a year — tens of millions in spend, dozens of hires — to a single guess nobody stress-tested, and find out whether it was right long after it's too late to change it.
The picture you've never had
Three whole-company futures. See what each is worth — then choose.
Each is a complete, costed future for Dec 2027 — revenue, valuation, capital and capacity together. Pick one and the whole decision fills in below: the trajectory, the four answers, and the system's go/no-go.
Grow hard — the path to $52M ARRRecurring revenue, today to Dec 2027, with the round and the target marked.
Revenue · so farForecast to targetRound timingTarget ARR · Dec 2027
What we'll be worth
$280M
Valuation at this path, on your live metrics.
Most sensitive to NRR & exit multiple — ±5 pts NRR ≈ ±$23M.
What to finance
$30M
Round to fund the path, by Q1 2027.
Is it realistic?
Ambitious
74% confidence, modelled on your own ramp history.
Can we staff it?
+22
Hires the plan funds — affordable within the path.
All three, side by side
| Grow hard | Hold the runway | Push price | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARR target | $52M · Dec 2027 | $46M · Q2 2028 | $48M · Dec 2027 |
| What it's worth | $280M | $250M | $260M |
| Capital to finance | $30M round | none | none |
| Realistic? | 74% | 91% | 83% |
| Runway | ~14 mo at the window | never below 12 mo | above the floor throughout |
| Hires the plan funds | +22 | +1 | +8 |
| System check | Conditional | Clear | Clear |
Illustrative — modelled on your own numbers. The full valuation and cash build lives in Strategic Finance.
You picked Grow hard. One question left: does the whole system clear it? ↓ Model any path in full in Forecasting & scenarios.
Before you commit
The whole system green-lights the plan — or shows exactly what's blocking it.
Beacon runs your chosen path through every check before it seals — cash, capacity, capital and the company's targets. No blind spots, no wishful thinking. If something isn't funded yet, it says so.
The path you're committing
Grow hard
$52M
ARR by Dec 2027
System check
✓Cashflow coverageFunded — with the round in placeClear
✓Capacity to deliver+22 hires land inside the planClear
✓Capital to fund itNeeds the $30M round to closeConditional
✓Company targets add upTeam targets sum to $52MClear
!Clear to seal — with one condition.Everything checks out. It seals as the plan of record the moment the $30M round closes.
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Versioned & timestampedEvery seal is a dated snapshot of the inputs — the plan of record, not a moving target.
2
Splits to every team automaticallyThe target breaks into each team's owned number the moment it seals.
3
Re-openable only by you — and loggedRe-steer any time; every change is on the record. See the proof system →
You can trust what you're choosing
Talk the trade-off through. The math answers.
Every future runs on the same engine that runs the company — same data, same definitions. Ask the hard question before you commit; Beacon frames the number, never invents it.
BeaconLive
What happens to cash if we hire the 22 two months later?
Slipping the hires two months keeps about $1.7M in the bank and pushes the cash-out date out fourteen weeks — but new ARR lands ~$4.7M light by Dec 2027, because ramped reps drive the Q3–Q4 pipeline that carries the target.
Recommended
Hire on schedule; protect the window, not the ramp.
A $30M round closed in the March window funds the plan and protects the $52M target. The two-month delay costs more in ARR than it saves in cash.
If you delay the hires two months
Runway
+14 wks
New ARR
−$4.7M
The numbers come from the math; the choice stays yours. Model the trade-off in full →
Next
The plan's set. Now get every team behind it.
You've chosen the future and sealed the plan. Next, Beacon splits it into every team's owned number and sends it straight to where the work happens.