Vital Sign 01 of 05
Cash Pulse™
How many days of operating cash remain at current burn rate. Not a projection. Not a forecast. The number.
Cash Pulse Monitor
Below Threshold
47
days
-18 days from last month
Operating cash
$84,200
Monthly burn rate
$53,800
Trend (90 days)
Declining
What Cash Pulse Measures
Three factors. Interconnected. Each one moves the others.
Available Cash
Liquid funds you can actually use. Excludes restricted accounts, deposits, and reserves already committed elsewhere.
Burn Rate
Net cash consumed monthly. Actual outflows minus reliable inflows, averaged over 90 days. Not what you budgeted. What happened.
Trajectory
Direction and velocity. Stable runway at 60 days is different from 60 days and falling.
Conditions That Typically Precede Runway Compression
These patterns often appear 60-90 days before runway becomes visibly constrained. They're in the data. They're rarely in the reports.
Receivables aging beyond normal collection cycles
Operating expenses growing faster than revenue
Customer concentration increasing dependency risk
Seasonal patterns not provisioned for in cash reserves
Example Observation
Below Threshold
Condition Observed
Cash runway has declined from 68 days to 47 days over the past 30 days. At current trajectory, runway will drop below 30 days within 4 weeks.
Contributing Factors
AR aging increase
+12 days avg
Operating expenses
+8.4% MoM
Largest customer
42 days overdue
How This Appears in Practice
What the monitoring surfaced. What the owner did about it.
Regional Services Company
$2.4M annual revenue · 18 employees
Condition Observed
Conditions Surfaced by Helcyon
Owner Decisions (Their Choice)
2.8 → 4.4
Months of Runway
+47 days
Runway Extended
30 days
Time to Outcome
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