Cash-crisis playbooks

Interventions you can run the moment a runway, AR aging, or burn signal crosses its threshold.

Extend payment terms

Negotiate longer payment terms with key vendors to stretch cash between payouts.

Fires when weeks of runway < 8

Accelerate collections

Compress receivables cycles and recover aging invoices before they go past 90 days.

Fires when AR aging 60+ share > 25%

Pause discretionary spend

Freeze non-essential outlays and shift every controllable dollar toward extending runway.

Fires when cash runway < 12 weeks