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Runway across products: one liquidity story your partner can trust

When ventures share a household balance sheet, “we are fine” is not the same as “here is how fine is defined.”

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Parallel bets mean parallel draws. Under stress, partners need a single narrative: which accounts fund which obligations, what can pause, and what triggers a call to counsel or your CFO.

Separate optimism from executable facts

Stillago’s money sections are not a budget app. They are a crisis-readable map of where cash lives, who can move it, and which processors touch customer money first.

Parallel draws on one household balance sheet

Multiple ventures often share mental runway more than formal runway. Under stress, your partner needs one coherent story: where cash is, what can pause, and what triggers a call to counsel-not three optimistic narratives that do not add up.

One liquidity narrative, three appendices

  • Which account funds payroll for which brand this month.
  • What can wait seven days without existential damage.
  • Who is allowed to move money and how approvals actually work.

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Stress-test the story with a trusted third party

Ask your CFO or CPA to read only the money sections. If they squint, your partner will panic. Plain language is a kindness product.

Separate optimism from cash facts

Write the conservative case: what pauses first if revenue dips across ventures simultaneously.

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