Build a forecast scenario
Ask "what if" and get the forecast redone with your assumptions.
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Works with
- Slack
- Airtable
- Microsoft 365
Slack
Airtable
Microsoft 365How do you build a forecast scenario?
To build a forecast scenario, ask Maito your what-if in Slack, such as hiring five engineers in Q3. It reads your forecast in Airtable or Microsoft 365, applies your assumptions to a copy, and reports the change in burn, cash and runway next to the current plan, noting costs the model leaves out.
How it's done today
Each scenario takes a day in a spreadsheet.
What Maito does
- Read the current model
- Change the assumptions
- Show the new forecast and the difference
Example
@Maito what if we hire 5 more engineers in Q3, starting Aug 1? Fully loaded at $185k each.
Burn goes up $77k a month from August, and runway drops from 22 months to 18. • Current plan: $1.42M burn this year, $9.8M cash at Dec 31. • With 5 hires: $1.80M burn, $9.4M cash. • Cash-out date moves from Oct 2028 to Jun 2028. Catch: your model books recruiting fees at 0%. At a typical 20% of salary that's about $185k across the 5 hires, which costs another 5 weeks of runway. I left it out of these numbers. Source: the 2026 forecast workbook in Microsoft 365. I changed a copy, not your model. Attached: forecast-5-eng-hires.xlsx.
@Maito rerun with the recruiting fees, and hire 3 in Q3 and 2 in Q4.
Runway is 19 months with fees and the split hiring. Updated copy attached. The CFO should check the assumptions before it's shared.
Omar (11:20 AM):
what if we hire 5 more engineers in Q3, starting Aug 1? Fully loaded at $185k each.
Maito (11:24 AM):
Burn goes up $77k a month from August, and runway drops from 22 months to 18.
• Current plan: $1.42M burn this year, $9.8M cash at Dec 31.
• With 5 hires: $1.80M burn, $9.4M cash.
• Cash-out date moves from Oct 2028 to Jun 2028.
Catch: your model books recruiting fees at 0%. At a typical 20% of salary that's about $185k across the 5 hires, which costs another 5 weeks of runway. I left it out of these numbers.
Source: the 2026 forecast workbook in Microsoft 365. I changed a copy, not your model. Attached: forecast-5-eng-hires.xlsx.
Omar (11:30 AM):
rerun with the recruiting fees, and hire 3 in Q3 and 2 in Q4.
Maito (11:33 AM):
Runway is 19 months with fees and the split hiring. Updated copy attached. The CFO should check the assumptions before it's shared.
How to set it up
- Set up
Nothing to set up. Ask in Slack or by email whenever you need it.
- Connect spreadsheet
- Airtable
- Microsoft 365
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What it won't do
Maito recalculates your model, so the result is only as good as the model and the assumptions. It is a planning aid, not financial advice.
Questions
No. It works on a copy and attaches the scenario, so the original model stays as it is.
Spreadsheets in Airtable or Microsoft 365.
Yes. You give the numbers, and it uses them and shows what it assumed for anything you left out.
