Financial Scenario Planning Software
Explore what-if scenarios. See the trade-offs across key metrics.
Instantly view forecasted runway, burn rate, and key metrics like CAC, LTV, and burn multiple — without digging through spreadsheets.
WHY SCENARIO MODELING MATTERS
Your biggest decisions are financial. Scenarios show the full impact.
You make your most important decisions on gut instinct. Not because you want to, but because running real scenarios in a spreadsheet is slow, fragile, and hard to compare. The cost is high, the confidence is low, and the ability to compare versions is even lower.
Parallel makes exploring scenarios simple, so you make every call with confidence. Scenarios are compared against your base model, automatically update with your actuals, and make the impact of every change visible across runway, burn, and every other key metric you track.
Always live, never stale
Pull in new actuals from QuickBooks Online or Puzzle, or update a salary in your base model, and every scenario reflects the change instantly. You act on today's data, not the data you remember from a month ago.
Compare up to five side by side
Layer scenarios on top of each other. See impact across runway, burn, P&L, and SaaS KPIs at the same time, in one view.
Test alternate models, safely
Stress-test changing assumptions in a scenario, risk-free to your base model.
Duplicate, layer, and merge
Spin up new scenarios from existing ones. When the time is right, merge a scenario into your base model in one step.
Visual impact across every KPI
See exactly how each decision moves runway, burn, gross margin, and the rest of your dashboard, instantly.
Permissions for safe exploration
Team members can explore decisions like hiring or fundraising without needing full edit access to the model.
Where scenario modeling matters
Parallel gives you the confidence to tackle the most critical financial questions in your startup
Hiring
"Can I afford this hire?"
Every role carries its full loaded cost: salary, benefits, taxes, bonus, and associated expenses. One hire can kick off others, so adding an AE may trigger CS reps you hadn't planned for. Parallel models the cascade and shows exactly how each new hire bends your runway before you make the offer.
Raising
"When and how much should I raise?"
Add the round size, close date, and spend plan on top of your forecast. Run multiple amounts and timings side by side. See exactly what runway each version buys you and how the operating plan changes.
Revenue assumptions
"What if sales change?"
Test pricing changes, churn assumptions, expansion lifts, and GTM motion shifts. See how each one reshapes runway, burn, and the rest of your KPIs in real time.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is scenario modeling in Parallel different from a spreadsheet?
Can I share a scenario with my board or my investors?
Do I need a finance background to build a scenario?
How many scenarios can I run?
What kinds of decisions can you model?
A model is only as valuable as the decisions it drives
The moment Parallel shows its true value is when you run your first scenario and trust the answer enough to make a real decision.
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