Parallel- When Growth Stopped Being Simple: How Greptile Made Sense of Runway

Results at a glance

Greptile moved off partial runway views that didn’t reflect the full business
The team got clear on how hiring and department spend affected runway
Budget decisions became easier to evaluate as the team scaled
Day-to-day financial questions could be answered without guesswork

The Situation

After Greptile raised their Series A, customer demand increased quickly. Engineering bandwidth became a bottleneck, and the team needed to hire aggressively to keep up. As that happened, financial questions that used to feel manageable started to matter more.

Like many teams at this stage, Greptile did not have deep finance expertise in house. Financial visibility came from a limited runway view that did not include the full picture of spend across the business.

The Trigger

Growth forced new decisions.

Hiring more engineers was no longer optional. Marketing and go-to-market spend needed to increase. At the same time, leadership needed to understand what those decisions would actually mean for runway.

As Paloma described it:

“The main problem we were trying to solve was figuring out our financial runway and being able to see if we allocated money in different departments and ramping up spend in marketing or sales or design or product or whatever that may be, how that would affect our runway.”

The challenge wasn’t knowing what needed to happen. It was understanding the implications of each choice. Without a clear way to connect day-to-day decisions to runway, planning felt heavier than it needed to be.

Where Things Broke Down

Before Parallel, runway visibility came from a broad view that did not include all financial activity.

As the company scaled, that gap became more of a pain for Greptile. Costs did not show up evenly. One-time purchases and uneven spend made simple averages misleading. It was possible to look backward, but difficult to understand how future decisions would play out.

At the same time, budget questions became part of daily operations.

“I constantly have people from teams coming to me saying, what is my budget? Can we afford for me to hire this contractor or to do this and do that?”

Without a clear view of how decisions affected runway, answering those questions required guesswork.

What Parallel Changed

Parallel gave Greptile a single place to see runway, spend, and scenarios together.

Instead of stitching together partial views, financial data lived in one dashboard that reflected the full business. That made it easier to understand tradeoffs without needing a finance background.

“Parallel has been a great way to have everything in one place. It’s a way better whole, well-rounded picture of everything.”

Scenario planning became central to how the team planned.

“When you showed me the scenario mode, I was like, wow. This is pretty incredible.”

Instead of rebuilding spreadsheets, Paloma could explore how changes to hiring or marketing spend would affect runway and adjust accordingly.

What Became Possible

With clearer visibility, financial planning became part of everyday decision making.

Department budgets could be evaluated before commitments were made and hiring conversations could be grounded in current runway, not assumptions. Questions from teams could be answered quickly and confidently.

“I can go look in Parallel and figure it out and tell them yes or no, or we have to move things around this way and that way.”

For a team without deep finance experience, that clarity mattered.

“The dashboard is just so easy to use coming from someone like myself where I don’t have much finance experience.”

The Outcome

Greptile gained a clearer understanding of how decisions across hiring and spend shaped runway.

Instead of reacting to changes after the fact, the team could see the impact of decisions ahead of time. Financial planning felt more manageable, and conversations about growth became easier to navigate.

Parallel became part of how the team allocated resources and planned for scale.

When This Matters

This moment is familiar for many B2B SaaS founders.

After early traction, growth introduces complexity. Costs stop behaving predictably, hiring and spend decisions overlap. At that point, simple runway views are no longer enough.

Being prepared is less about perfect forecasts and more about understanding tradeoffs. The hardest part of planning is not modeling, but rather understanding how one decision affects the next.

Greptile reached that point. Clearer visibility made it easier to move forward with confidence.

Key takeaways for founders

Financial clarity becomes more important as teams scale and costs become uneven
Department-level visibility makes day-to-day decisions easier to manage
Scenario planning helps founders evaluate tradeoffs before committing
Understanding how decisions affect runway matters more than perfect forecasts

About Greptile

Greptile builds AI-powered tools that help engineering teams understand and work with complex codebases. Their platform provides contextual code review and repository-wide insights that help teams ship faster and maintain quality as they scale.