Runwait vs Runway
Runway is flexible FP&A for finance teams. Runwait is decision-ready finance for founders.
- A finance leader owns planning and wants a flexible modelling surface.
- You need broad integrations, dimensional planning, and cross-functional workflows.
- Your accounting, month-end, and supporting documents already live elsewhere.
- A founder still owns the runway and the money questions.
- Hiring, spending, and fundraising decisions are the immediate job.
- You want one guided model, sourced answers in Slack, and a clean accountant handoff.
| Capability | Runway | Runwait |
|---|---|---|
| One current runway for founder decisions | Connected actuals and flexible FP&A models | Cash, revenue, team costs, funding, and plans together |
| Month-end coverage and audit trail | Consumes accounting actuals; close happens elsewhere | Coverage, open items, confirmations, and history |
| Hiring and fundraising scenarios | Deep collaborative modelling | Before and after runway, with assumptions shown |
| Answers in Slack | AI analysis in the planning workspace | Ask in plain English and get the basis and math |
| Shared document space | Planning workspace, not a document room | Documents by month with scoped guest access |
| Deterministic math and visible basis | Readable model logic and drill-in | Finance functions calculate every figure |
| Designed for a founder to operate | Model and data-source setup | Guided model with direct entry and connected sources |
6 ways Runwait differs from Runway.
Founder decisions
The decision is the starting point.
Runwait is designed around the questions a founder has to answer before hiring finance: what can we afford, how long do we have, and what does the next round buy us.
Runway serves broad planning workflows. Runwait narrows the job to the cash decisions a founder owns.
One financial model
Actuals and plans stay together.
Cash, revenue, team costs, funding, and plans share one model. The runway answer and the scenario both begin from the same financial picture.
Runway connects actuals into a flexible model. Runwait keeps the founder's core cash picture in a guided model.
Answers in Slack
Ask where the decision happens.
Ask about runway, burn, a hire, or a raise in Slack and get the figure with its basis and assumptions, using the same calculations as the product.
Both offer AI analysis. Runwait is also designed to answer founder questions in Slack.
Accountant handoff
The evidence has a shared home.
Keep statements, invoices, and receipts together by month, then give an accountant or investor scoped access when review time comes.
Runway focuses on planning and reporting. Runwait includes a shared document space for review.
Team costs
See the hire in months of runway.
Runwait calculates loaded monthly cost, places it from the correct start month, and shows runway before and after the person joins.
Runway supports headcount planning. Runwait emphasizes loaded cost and runway impact before the offer.
Portability
Your data stays yours.
The runway, financial records, and supporting documents remain exportable, so adopting Runwait does not create a costly exit later.
Both support export. Runwait makes portability part of the product promise.
Bring one real decision.
Bring the hire, spend, or raise you are considering. See the tradeoff before you commit.