The Runway
Architect
A live structural audit for pre-seed and seed-stage founders. Input your numbers and watch your capital efficiency, runway, and founder archetype update in real-time. No data stored until you generate your full audit.
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Input Your Numbers
= $500,000
Everyone drawing a salary from your raised capital — founders included if applicable
= $3,500/person · Total burn: $28,000/mo
Include salary + employer taxes + benefits. Enter in USD or your local currency equivalent.
% of team in product, engineering, design, or sales (value-creating roles vs. management and admin)
Hours per week spent on operations, admin, or reactive issues instead of strategic and product work
Live Structural Health
Monthly Burn
$28,000
per month
Runway
17.9
months remaining
Velocity Ratio
60%
builders vs total
Efficiency Score
42.0%
structural efficiency
Archetype C · 40–59%
Founder-Bottleneck
You are the ceiling. Every strategic decision funnels through you, and the team is waiting. Your firefighting hours are compressing your strategic capacity.
Series A Collision Course
With 17.9 months of runway at current burn, you are likely to hit a capital crisis before reaching Series A metrics. The average Series A takes 12–18 months to close after initiating. The clock is running.
Structural Breakdown
Your Financial
Architecture
Total Capital Raised
$500,000
User input
Monthly Burn Rate (B_M)
$28,000
8 people × $3,500/mo
Runway
17.9 months
Capital ÷ Monthly Burn
Annual Burn Rate
$336,000
B_M × 12
Builder Payroll Spend
$16,800
60% of burn on value-creating roles
Overhead Payroll Spend
$11,200
40% of burn on non-builders
Firefighting Cost (monthly)
$24,000
12 hrs/wk × $500/hr × 4 wks
Velocity Ratio (V_R)
60%
Builder Ratio ÷ 100
Efficiency Score
42.0%
V_R × (1 − Firefighting ÷ 40) × 100
Founder Archetype · 40–59%
Founder-Bottleneck
The Angle
You are the ceiling. Every strategic decision funnels through you, and the team is waiting. Your firefighting hours are compressing your strategic capacity.
The Hook
The fix is not working harder. It is building the systems that let you stop being the system. You need a founder operating model, not a longer to-do list.
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The Runway Architect · v1.0 · Q2 2026 Data
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