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Writing on runway, cost leaks, and how a language model reads your books so you do not have to build a spreadsheet to find out where your money went.
Read your runway in ten minutes
Your runway number is hiding in three places: your bank balance, your actual spend history, and a short list of one-off costs you need to pull out before any of it adds up. Here is the right order to look.
Daniel Reyes · Cofounder and CEO · July 10, 2026 · 7 min read
Five leaks every seed startup has
The same five categories of spend show up in almost every ledger Vael reads at the seed stage. The median total across all five is about $4,900 a month. None of them were decisions anyone made deliberately.
Sofia Marren · Head of Finance Partnerships · June 24, 2026 · 8 min read
Why a CFO copilot should be model-agnostic
The question founders ask is which model Vael uses. That is the wrong question. For a product that reads messy financial data and turns it into a plain-language answer, the architecture matters more than the model name.
Mara Whitfield · Cofounder and CTO · May 30, 2026 · 6 min read
Know your runway by the end of the day.
Start free, no card. Paste a month of numbers or connect an account, and Vael reads your runway, your leaks, and your next move.