For Puzzle customers

Turn your Puzzle books into a live forecast.

Parallel builds your forecast from your actual numbers and updates it every time your books close. See what a hire or a raise does to your cash before you commit.

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Clean books tell you where you've been.

Puzzle gets your books right. That tells you what already happened.

The calls in front of you are about what happens next: when to hire, how much to spend, when to raise. For most founders that answer lives in a spreadsheet they stopped updating months ago.

Your books update every month. Your forecast should too.

How It Works

A forecast in under 5 minutes.

Connect Puzzle

Parallel reads your books and builds a three-statement model from them. No template to fill in.

Add your team

Add the people you have today and answer a few questions about how you make money.

Plan ahead

Add a hire, change spend or model a raise. Runway, burn and cash update as you go.

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The questions you're actually asking.

"Can we afford to spend more on growth?"

Add the spend to your plan and see what it does to your runway before you commit.

"Can I afford two more hires in March?"

See the fully loaded cost of each hire and the month your cash runs out with them and without them.

"When do I need to raise?"

Model the round size and close date. See which timing leaves you room and which one leaves you scrambling.

"What if revenue comes in light?"

Build a downside plan next to your base plan and compare them side by side.

Everything runs off your Puzzle books.

Powerful enough to model your business, simple enough to get answers fast.

Headcount planning

Every role with its fully loaded cost and start date. Salary, taxes, benefits and the software each person needs.

Synced with Puzzle

Your actuals flow in automatically. No exports, no copy and paste, no stale tab.

Live dashboards

Runway, burn and cash balance move the moment your plan or your books change.

Scenarios

Your base plan and your what-ifs side by side, across every number that matters.

Monthly review comparing forecast and actual cash balance and revenue

Monthly reporting

A clean monthly report and your SaaS metrics, ready to send.

Claude & ChatGPT connection

Grow and up

Ask what a hire or a raise does to your cash from the AI tools you already use. Your forecast answers.

Customer Stories & Testimonials

Trusted by founders.

Running a company means answering a never-ending list of questions. Can we afford to hire? When should we fundraise? Parallel removed that guesswork.

Rishi Ahuja

Founder @ Benny API

I'm constantly modeling out hiring scenarios & Parallel shows me what needs to be true to deserve a hire and the impact it has on the business.

Brice Douglas

CEO @ Zaymo

When building a company, every dollar is precious. To maintain a high talent density, every hire is essential. My hands-down favorite tool as a CEO is Parallel.