Five free tools for founders, in one Next.js app — startup-funding-planner.vercel.app
- Growth Planner — whether you need outside money at all. Models growth motions by what they do to the slope: Land buys revenue with delivery capacity and stops where your people stop, Expand compounds on a base you already paid to acquire, and License scales with a partner's customer list instead of your headcount. Reports revenue per person-month, and either says the plan funds itself or names the amount and the month you must start raising.
- Ready to Raise — an investor-readiness board. Tick what you already have; it scores five readiness dimensions from the fundraising literature, names your binding constraint, and ranks what to fix by leverage. Also ranks which investor archetypes to target.
- Round Planner — how much to raise and what it buys. Sizes the round from the milestone the next one expects, in either direction: bottom-up from a team plan, or top-down from a revenue, user or product target. Shows both and the gap between them, with a timeline of when to start raising again.
- Dilution Planner — model dilution across FFF, Angels & VCs, handle grants and convertibles, build a cap table, and simulate exits under different liquidation preferences.
- Network Strategy — a weighted three-layer model (founder attributes → mechanisms → strategies) built from the empirical fundraising literature, each strategy with a step-by-step playbook.
Each model states its weights openly and cites the papers behind them. The weights are set by hand from the literature, not fitted to data — the output is a structured argument, not a prediction.
npm install
npm run dev| Script | Does |
|---|---|
npm run dev |
Dev server |
npm run build |
Production build |
npm run typecheck |
tsc --noEmit |
npm test |
Model unit tests, via Node's own runner |
Copy .env.example to .env.local for the optional keys.
app/
page.tsx hero + tool switcher + footer
globals.css design tokens, shared component styles, print rules
api/milestones/route.ts server-side milestone suggestions
components/
growth/ growth planner UI
ScrollHero.tsx scroll-driven word hero
PillNav.tsx tool switcher (dropdown on mobile)
ToolSwitcher.tsx keeps all five tools mounted, syncs ?tool=
MotionButton.tsx circle-that-grows-into-a-pill link
SiteFooter.tsx GitHub links + disclaimer
ready/ ready-to-raise UI
round/ round planner UI
planner/ dilution planner UI
network/ network strategy UI
lib/
months.ts month arithmetic, shared by the planners
growth-motions.ts motions, leverage metrics, the capital verdict
planner.ts all planner maths — pure, no DOM
network-strategy.ts weights, citations, and the two-layer model
ready-to-raise.ts readiness dimensions, actions, archetypes
round-planner.ts round sizing, capacity model, timeline
inplicit/ revenue planner: model, roster, share codec
All the models live in lib/ as pure functions over a state object, with no DOM
access, so they can be exercised without a browser.
/inplicit is a company-specific revenue planner rather than one of the
public tools. It has no access control: it is excluded in robots.txt,
absent from sitemap.xml, carries noindex and is not in the tool
navigation — so search engines skip it, but anyone with the URL can read it.
lib/inplicit/roster.ts therefore holds placeholder rows only — it ships
in the client bundle and lives in a public repo, so treat everything in it as
published. Real account names go in through the tool itself and persist in the
share link and in the browser's saved scenarios, never in the repository.
The "Suggest with AI" button calls /api/milestones. Set
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...
in .env.local (or as a Vercel environment variable) to enable it. Without a
key the route returns a curated fallback set rather than failing, so the
feature degrades quietly. The key is only ever read server-side.
Deployed on Vercel. vercel.json pins framework: "nextjs" so the build runs
next build regardless of the project's dashboard preset.