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Recipe

Burn runway dashboard

Track cash burn, months remaining, and revenue growth in a single real-time view. Built for founders who need to know exactly when the tank hits empty.

Overview

This recipe wires up a live burn-rate dashboard using Meridian real-time subscriptions. It pulls monthly expenses, recurring revenue, and cash-on-hand into a single card layout with color-coded runway indicators.

Ingredients

  • Meridian real-time channel: finance:burn
  • Three numeric streams: expenses, revenue, cash balance
  • Derived metric: months of runway (cash / net burn)
  • Threshold alerts at 6 months and 3 months

Steps

  1. Subscribe to the channel. Open a persistent connection to finance:burn with your API key.
  2. Render the cards. Display expenses, revenue, and cash in a three-column grid. Highlight net burn with a red or green badge.
  3. Compute runway. Divide cash by absolute net burn. If revenue exceeds expenses, show “profitable — no burn.”
  4. Wire alerts. When runway drops below 6 months, pulse the card border violet. Below 3 months, switch to pink and show a warning banner.

Example output

Monthly expenses

$42,800

Monthly revenue

$18,200

Runway

4.2 months

Next steps

Extend the dashboard with a burn-down chart, team headcount slider, or scenario planner. See the real-time API reference for full subscription options.