Guide 07

Before commitments against uncertain cash

Mapped

The situation

You are about to hire, sign a lease, book a contractor, or promise a customer on the back of cash that has not arrived. An invoice, a verbal yes, or a financing conversation is being treated as money.

The decision at stake

Whether you can make this commitment against a cash scenario that includes delay, a reserve, and the difference between contracted, invoiced, collected, and financing.

This guide is mapped. You can answer the questions and keep a note. The full essay, contrasting examples, and the longer branch for founders who have already acted are not written yet. Output to aim for: Cash scenario.

Questions to start the note

This guide is mapped, not finished. The situation, the decision, and the questions are here so you can start a record. The full evidence, the contrasting examples, and the longer “already acted” branch are not written yet.

1.Your name
2.Company
3.The commitment you are about to make
4.What is contracted, what is invoiced, what is collected, and what is only a financing hope?
5.If the largest receipt slips by 90 days, what breaks?
6.What reserve do you keep before you commit payroll, rent, or a contractor?
7.What personal or household runway is mixed into the company plan?
8.Who is exposed if you sign: the company, you, a family member, a guarantor?
9.What will you not promise until cash is collected?
10.Which payment can you delay without breaking a duty you have already accepted?
11.If you have already signed, which commitments can still be renegotiated, and which cannot?

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