runway-and-unit-economics

runway-and-unit-economics is a skill for Claude Code from impactbrussels/FounderOS. It costs 124 tokens per session (1,432 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for founders to calculate cash runway, monthly burn, and unit economics. Runway is how long the business can fund itself; unit economics show whether each customer makes or loses money.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to estimate runway and burn, assess CAC and LTV, decide whether hiring is affordable, and evaluate profitability per customer.
Why use it?
It turns bank and invoice data into a simple model that exposes when cash may run out and whether growth is financially sustainable.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the founderos plugin — 23 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to estimate runway and burn, assess CAC and LTV, decide whether hiring is affordable, and evaluate profitability per customer.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/impactbrussels/founderos/runway-and-unit-economics
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add impactbrussels/FounderOS --skill runway-and-unit-economics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/impactbrussels/FounderOS

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install founderos, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills, 3 agents.

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Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,432 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00124 $0.01432
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.00716
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00286
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00143

Measured 11d ago against content hash e571e012aec1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

runway-and-unit-economics scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/runway-and-unit-economics/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Runway and Unit Economics

This is finance education, not financial advice. It teaches you to build and read a simple model. It is not accounting, tax, or investment advice. Numbers below are rules-of-thumb to sanity-check your own figures - not targets, guarantees, or laws. For anything that touches taxes, statutory reporting, or fundraising terms, confirm with a qualified accountant or financial adviser in your jurisdiction.

First-time founders die two ways with money: they run out of cash sooner than they think, or they scale a business that loses money on every customer. Both are invisible until it's too late - unless you have a one-page model. This skill builds that model: how long your cash lasts (runway), how fast you burn it, and whether each customer makes or loses you money (unit economics). The goal is a number you can defend and one lever to pull.

The method

Built on the Founder OS scaffold (High tier). Full templates, formulas, and benchmarks in references/unit-economics.md.

Step 1 - List the cash, in and out (research before asserting)

Pull actuals, not hopes. From your bank and invoices, list every monthly cash in (revenue actually collected, not booked) and every cash out (salaries, contractors, tools, rent, ads, fees). Use real numbers from the last 1-3 months. If you're guessing a line, mark it as an assumption - a model built on wishes lies to you.

Step 2 - Compute burn and runway

  • Net monthly burn = cash out − cash in (if negative, you're burning; if positive, default-alive).
  • Runway (months) = current cash balance ÷ net monthly burn.

Write the runway number in weeks if it's under ~6 months - it focuses the mind. This is the single most important number a pre-profit founder owns. Re-check it monthly.

Step 3 - Define the unit, then compute its economics

Pick the unit that the business scales on (one customer, one subscription, one order). For that unit, compute (definitions and formulas in the reference):

  • CAC - fully-loaded cost to acquire one paying customer (ad spend + sales + the time it really takes).
  • Contribution margin - revenue per unit minus the variable cost to serve it.
  • LTV - contribution margin × how long they stay (be conservative on lifetime).
  • LTV:CAC ratio and CAC payback period (months to earn back acquisition cost).

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 96 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A e571e012aec1

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runway-and-unit-economics is a skill published in the GitHub repository impactbrussels/FounderOS (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 1,432 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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