Simulate startup financing survival

Simulate dependency-gated milestone execution, correlated fundraising conditions, event-timed burn and insolvency to quantify survival, financing dependence, and rescue capital.

What it's for

Simulates milestone execution, correlated fundraising conditions and burn together, to separate 'we need more time' from 'we need more money'.

Creates an investor-grade bridge from engineering execution uncertainty to financing survival and capital-at-risk without exposing contributor-level data.

What you give it

Inputs split into evidence read from your connected systems, calibration your team owns, and numerical controls that affect precision but never the result's meaning.

Field Type Role Required
execution_loading number ≥ 0, ≤ 1 Your calibration Optional
execution_market_correlation number ≥ -0.95, ≤ 0.95 Your calibration Optional
financing_rounds array of objects (7 fields) Evidence Yes
horizon_days integer ≥ 1, ≤ 3650 Your calibration Yes
initial_cash number ≥ 0 Your calibration Yes
market_loading number ≥ 0, ≤ 1 Your calibration Optional
milestones array of objects (8 fields) Evidence Yes
monthly_burn_high number ≥ 0 Your calibration Yes
monthly_burn_likely number ≥ 0 Your calibration Yes
monthly_burn_low number ≥ 0 Your calibration Yes
parallel_teams integer ≥ 1, ≤ 50 Your calibration Optional
seed integer Numerical control Optional
simulations integer ≥ 200, ≤ 50000 Numerical control Optional

Each milestones record

Field Type Required
cash_inflow_on_success number (≥ 0) Optional
cost_log_sigma number (≥ 0, ≤ 3) Yes
cost_median number (≥ 0) Yes
depends_on array of string Optional
duration_log_sigma number (≥ 0, ≤ 3) Yes
duration_median_days number (> 0) Yes
id string (non-empty) Yes
success_probability number (≥ 0, ≤ 1) Yes
Example input
{
  "financing_rounds": [
    {
      "amount": 2000,
      "base_close_probability": 1,
      "deadline_days": 60,
      "id": "series_a",
      "requires_milestones": [
        "enterprise_pilot"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "horizon_days": 90,
  "initial_cash": 700,
  "milestones": [
    {
      "cost_log_sigma": 0,
      "cost_median": 100,
      "depends_on": [],
      "duration_log_sigma": 0,
      "duration_median_days": 30,
      "id": "enterprise_pilot",
      "success_probability": 1
    }
  ],
  "monthly_burn_high": 300,
  "monthly_burn_likely": 300,
  "monthly_burn_low": 300,
  "seed": 3,
  "simulations": 200
}

What you get back

This is the actual output of running the example above — computed by the same function the platform calls, not an illustration.

Example output
{
  "assumptions": [
    "Milestone costs are paid at start; success inflows and financing arrive only at their modeled event times.",
    "A cash balance below zero at any time is insolvency even if a later financing event would replenish it.",
    "Execution and market dependence is represented by one correlated latent-factor pair; scenario calibration must be refreshed.",
    "This is company planning and investor risk analysis, not investment advice."
  ],
  "ending_cash": {
    "p05": 1700,
    "p50": 1700,
    "p95": 1700
  },
  "financing_rounds": [
    {
      "conditional_close_probability": 1,
      "probability_closed_by_horizon": 1,
      "probability_triggered_by_horizon": 1,
      "round_id": "series_a"
    }
  ],
  "insolvency_day_p50_if_failed": null,
  "method": "correlated_dependency_financing_cash_survival_v1",
  "milestones": [
    {
      "completion_day_p50_if_successful": 30,
      "completion_day_p90_if_successful": 30,
      "milestone_id": "enterprise_pilot",
      "probability_success_by_horizon": 1
    }
  ],
  "probability_insolvency": 0,
  "probability_survival_to_horizon": 1,
  "probability_survival_without_financing": 0,
  "rescue_capital": {
    "p50": 0,
    "p90": 0,
    "p95": 0
  },
  "simulation": {
    "draws": 200,
    "execution_market_correlation": 0.25,
    "horizon_days": 90,
    "parallel_teams": 1
  },

Truncated for display — the full payload is 46 lines.

How it works

Forecasting & survival — Estimate when something completes or fails, with censoring and unresolved work handled honestly rather than dropped.

  1. 1 Simulate dependency-gated milestone execution, correlated fundraising conditions, event-timed burn and insolvency to quantify survival, financing dependence, and rescue capital.
  2. 2 Evaluate the method-specific diagnostics and gates returned by the function, then abstain unless the declared decision clears them under locally governed thresholds.

Before you trust it

Every tool in the catalog ships with the conditions under which its answer is meaningful — and the conditions under which it should abstain instead of guessing.

Assumptions & guardrails

  • Training examples precede their outcomes, censoring and unresolved work are represented, and deployment populations remain comparable to validation cohorts.
  • A predictive interval or risk estimate is not a deadline promise, causal explanation, or individual-performance judgment.

Minimum evidence

  • milestones: required and organization-defined
  • financing_rounds: required and organization-defined
  • initial_cash: required and organization-defined
  • monthly_burn_low: required and organization-defined
  • monthly_burn_likely: required and organization-defined
  • monthly_burn_high: required and organization-defined
  • horizon_days: required and organization-defined

How to validate it

Validate on future periods or held-out aggregate units, compare with a simple baseline, and require stability across plausible metric definitions and decision thresholds.

Calibrating it to your org

Same for everyone

The mathematical kernel, validation rules, method version, and JSON output semantics are organization-independent; no tenant-trained coefficients or company benchmark is embedded in the function.

Specific to you

  • metric/outcome definitions, entity grain, observation window, costs, thresholds, priors, and constraints represented by the function inputs

Calibration workflow

  1. 1 Define the management decision, target outcome, aggregate unit, privacy boundary, cadence, and prediction/intervention horizon for this organization.
  2. 2 Build a tenant-scoped historical cohort using only information available before each prediction or decision; preserve zero periods, censoring, assignment probabilities, and unresolved outcomes when the method requires them.
  3. 3 Estimate statistical parameters on training history, but obtain costs, utilities, risk tolerance, practical-effect thresholds, capacity, and policy constraints from accountable decision owners.
  4. 4 Validate on later time windows or held-out aggregate units at the deployment grain, against a simple baseline and the function-specific validation strategy.
  5. 5 Deploy only if the returned decision clears evidence, overlap, calibration, robustness, and guardrail checks; warning, unsupported, schema-gap, and fallback decisions are abstentions.
  6. 6 Monitor realized outcomes, data drift, coverage, and decision regret; recalibrate at a governed cadence or after a detected regime/definition change, never merely because a stakeholder dislikes the result.

Call it from your AI

You don't wire up 388 tools in your MCP client. The GitRevio MCP server exposes 18 tools, three of which let an agent search the catalog, read a tool's schema, and run it — so the assistant finds this one on its own.

gitrevio_capabilities_search
  { "q": "simulate dependencygated milestone execution correlated fundraising" }
  → finds "simulate_startup_financing_survival"

gitrevio_capability_describe
  { "capability_id": "simulate_startup_financing_survival" }
  → returns the input schema and agent guidance shown on this page

gitrevio_capability_run
  { "capability_id": "simulate_startup_financing_survival", "arguments": { ... } }
  → returns the result shown above

Works in Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Continue.dev, Goose and Aider. See the MCP server.

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