Introduction

Most business plans start with a guess. Someone writes down a revenue figure, a cost figure and a hopeful growth rate, and the plan is built on top of them. When a lender or an investor asks where a number came from, there often isn't a good answer.

Foundation starts one step earlier, with a feasibility study: the cost tables and assumptions a professional analyst would build by hand, set out as steps anyone can fill in. You enter what you know about your business. Foundation's calculation engine works out what it adds up to.

What you getCopy Anchor Link

• Investment: how much money you need before you open, including a contingency and working capital.
• Operating costs: what it costs to run each year, split into fixed and variable costs.
• Revenue: what you'll sell, at what price, with a realistic ramp in your first year.
• Results: profit, margin, break-even, payback period, NPV and IRR, plus SaaS metrics for subscription businesses.
• Scenarios: a worst, base and best case side by side.
• A business plan drafted around your numbers.

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How Foundation handles numbersCopy Anchor Link

Foundation keeps two jobs apart:

1. You (or your AI) supply the inputs: prices, costs, staff, assumptions, and where each figure came from.
2. The engine does the math. It is deterministic, meaning the same inputs always give the same results, and it is covered by automated tests.

This split is why an AI connected to Foundation never has to invent an NPV or a payback period. It reads them from the engine instead.