Aligned Financials
Profitable businesses run out of cash all the time. Not because they aren't making money, but because of the gap — the stretch of days between paying for work and actually getting paid for it. The wider that gap, the more cash your growth quietly swallows, which is why a growing business can feel busier and more successful every month while somehow always feeling short on cash.
The Cash Flow Clarity Map measures that gap in exact days and exact dollars. You enter how long it takes to invoice, how long customers take to pay, and how long you take to pay your own suppliers, and the tool calculates your cash conversion gap — then tells you how much working capital is trapped in it right now, at your current size. Then it runs the scenario that matters: close the gap by a handful of days, and it shows you precisely how much cash that frees — freed once, and it stays freed at this size, permanently.
Most founders have never put a number on this. Once you see it, the fixes are obvious and fast: invoice the day work is done, shorten payment terms, take deposits, and follow up on day one instead of day thirty. This is the map that turns a vague "cash is tight" into a specific, solvable number.
An interactive spreadsheet that calculates the exact days and dollars trapped in your cash gap. Part of the toolkit from The Freedom Point.