How do I calculate burn rate and runway with iDBQuery?
Ask iDBQuery 'What is our monthly net burn, and how many months of runway remain at the current rate?' It computes net cash outflow from your transactions and divides remaining cash by it, returns burn and runway as a chart, and cites every figure to its source rows.
Burn rate is how fast you are spending cash each month; runway is how long your remaining cash lasts at that rate. For any company managing capital, these are the numbers that matter most, and iDBQuery keeps them current from your live data.
- You'd ask iDBQuery: 'Show net monthly burn over the last 12 months, the current cash balance, and months of runway remaining at the trailing three-month average burn.'
- It computes net cash outflow from your transaction history, divides current cash by it, and returns a trend chart plus the headline runway figure.
- Each figure is cited to its source rows, so 'runway = 14 months' traces to the exact balances and burn used.
Because it runs on live data, runway updates as spending changes rather than sitting stale in a board deck. Follow-ups are natural: 'How does runway change if we hit next quarter's revenue plan?' or 'Which cost category is driving burn up?' iDBQuery keeps the thread and pulls revenue projections and cost detail from the same one live model. Save it as a live report the leadership team can open any time, and let the Analyst agent flag the months where burn accelerated and why, with the underlying transactions. This works hand in hand with cash-flow and headcount planning.
Updated 2026-06-22