CFO-Level Financial Intelligence, Built From Your Actual Data.
Run scenario simulations, track runway and burn rate, model what-ifs, and generate decision-ready reports — all grounded in your real financial records, not manual spreadsheet estimates.
CFO intelligence is the work of turning financial data into decisions: understanding where the business stands, what could happen next, what a proposed decision would cost or save, and what to tell the board or investors. It is work that usually requires a spreadsheet, a lot of manual pulling and reconciling, and a person with enough experience to know which numbers matter and which are distractions.
Pollarc's CFO Intelligence module builds this layer directly on top of your connected financial data, so the numbers in a scenario or a report trace back to actual bank transactions, invoices, and books rather than estimates entered by hand. The module covers runway and burn rate, cashflow forecasting, scenario simulation, and decision-ready reporting — the things a CFO or finance lead uses to run the business and to explain it to others.
What the module does
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Runway and burn rate tracking
Pollarc calculates how long the business can continue at its current rate of spend using the actual cash position from connected accounts, and tracks how that runway changes as revenue and expenses move.
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Scenario simulation
Model the financial impact of proposed decisions before making them: hiring plans, pricing changes, new equipment, funding rounds, delayed customer payments, cost increases. Each scenario runs against your real financial data so the result is a grounded estimate, not a guess in a blank spreadsheet.
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Rolling cashflow forecasts
Forecasts are built from your transaction history and current position, updated as new data arrives, so the forecast reflects the direction the business is actually moving rather than a static projection made once a quarter.
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Decision-ready CFO reports
Generate reports that present the numbers a CFO or board needs in plain language: where cash stands, what is driving burn, what the forecast says, what the scenarios show. The reports are written in words alongside the figures so the story is clear without requiring the reader to interpret a chart.
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What-if analysis
Ask the module a question in plain language about the financial impact of something you are considering, and get an answer grounded in your data rather than a generic explanation.
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Continuous data grounding
Because the module builds on connected accounts and your live books, the intelligence it produces stays current as transactions happen, rather than going stale between reporting cycles.
A concrete example
A founder preparing for a board meeting has three questions that the board always asks: how much runway does the business have, what happens if one of the largest customers pays late, and is the current hiring plan sustainable given the burn rate? Without Pollarc, the founder spends a day pulling numbers from the bank, the accounting system, and a spreadsheet model that was built months ago and has been updated by hand since — and then reconciles the three sources to make sure they agree.
With Pollarc's CFO Intelligence, the founder opens the module, sees the current runway and burn rate drawn from connected accounts, runs the late-payment scenario to see how it shifts the forecast, runs the hiring scenario to see its impact on burn, and generates a report that presents all of it in plain language. The numbers trace back to actual transactions, the scenarios are grounded in real data, and the preparation that used to take a day takes an hour.
Get CFO-level answers from your own data, on demand.
Explore CFO IntelligenceScenario modeling. Runway tracking. Decision-ready reports.