Prepare the numbers for your investor update
Revenue, growth, burn, runway and customer count for the month, each with its source.
- On a schedule: On the 3rd of each month at 9:00
What it does
The task
Read last month's MRR, new MRR, churned MRR and the number of paying customers in my Stripe dashboard. Read the cash balance on my bank site bank and the net burn in the Google Sheet finance sheet. Calculate the growth against the month before, and the runway in months at the average burn of the last 3 months. Write a table with each number, the number for the month before and the source. Add 3 lines about the largest changes. Do not send anything to investors.
- It works in Stripe, any bank site and Google Sheets, in the workspace you pick, and signs in with passwords from your Cuiar vault.
- As a routine it runs on the 3rd of each month at 9:00 (cron
0 9 3 * *).
What you give it
| Blank | What to give | Example |
|---|---|---|
| bank | The bank with your company accounts | Nordbank Business |
| finance sheet | The Google Sheet with your monthly profit and loss | https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FinanceModel |
What you get back
An example run with the example values above. Your run uses your own data.
October 2026
| Metric | October | September | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| MRR | 86,400 USD | 81,200 USD | Stripe |
| New MRR | 7,900 USD | 6,100 USD | Stripe |
| Churned MRR | 2,700 USD | 1,900 USD | Stripe |
| Paying customers | 412 | 394 | Stripe |
| Cash | 1,920,000 USD | 2,010,000 USD | Bank |
| Net burn, 3-month average | 96,000 USD | 102,000 USD | Finance sheet |
| Runway | 20.0 months | 19.7 months | Calculated |
Notes: MRR grew 6.4%. Churn rose because Orbis Media left (1,100 USD). Burn fell after the office move.
Run it in Cuiar
- 01
Open it
Click Use in Cuiar on this page. The side panel opens with the task in the composer.
- 02
Fill in 2 blanks
Type bank and finance sheet. Tab moves to the next blank.
- 03
Run it, then repeat it
Run sends it once. To run it on the 3rd of each month at 9:00, make a routine on cuiar.com/routines or with the CLI below.
As a routine, from the terminal
cuiar routines create "Prepare the numbers for your investor update" --schedule "0 9 3 * *" --time-zone Europe/Berlin \
"Read last month's MRR, new MRR, churned MRR and the number of paying customers in my Stripe dashboard. Read the cash balance on my bank site Nordbank Business and the net burn in the Google Sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FinanceModel. Calculate the growth against the month before, and the runway in months at the average burn of the last 3 months. Write a table with each number, the number for the month before and the source. Add 3 lines about the largest changes. Do not send anything to investors."Run it from your AI agent
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other MCP clients reach Cuiar at https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp. Add the server one time, then ask for the task in plain words, or call create_routine yourself.
1. Add Cuiar to Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http cuiar https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp2. Ask your agent
Use the Cuiar tool create_routine to run my "Prepare the numbers for your investor update" template with bank = Nordbank Business; finance sheet = https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FinanceModel.Setup for other agents: AI agents.
The tool call
{
"name": "create_routine",
"arguments": {
"name": "Prepare the numbers for your investor update",
"task": "Read last month's MRR, new MRR, churned MRR and the number of paying customers in my Stripe dashboard. Read the cash balance on my bank site Nordbank Business and the net burn in the Google Sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FinanceModel. Calculate the growth against the month before, and the runway in months at the average burn of the last 3 months. Write a table with each number, the number for the month before and the source. Add 3 lines about the largest changes. Do not send anything to investors.",
"schedule": "0 9 3 * *",
"time_zone": "Europe/Berlin"
}
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