13-week cashflow scenario
When to use: when a large grant is delayed, a new cost has appeared, or you're heading into a lean season. How to use: give AI your opening cash position, expected receipts, and unavoidable payments — ask for base, downside and upside scenarios.
Higher-risk prompt — human review is required before you act on the output.
This prompt touches safeguarding, wellbeing, funding claims or public communications. Verify facts, remove personal details and check with a colleague before using the result.
When to use this prompt
Reach for this prompt when you need to when to use: when a large grant is delayed, a new cost has appeared, or you're heading into a lean season. How to use: give AI your opening cash position, expected receipts, and unavoidable payments — ask for base, downside and upside scenarios. It's designed for Finance Lead, CEO. Typically used within Finance work.
Not suitable for real-time decisions about individuals, safeguarding cases, or public claims without human sign-off.
How to use it
- 1
Gather your inputs
Have your local context, audience and goal to hand. - 2
Fill in the template
Copy the template below and replace every bracketed placeholder with real, local context. Keep names and safeguarding details out. - 3
Run it in your AI tool
Paste into your preferred AI assistant. Ask a follow-up if the output misses your association's tone or context. - 4
Review with the checklist
Work through the human-review checklist below before you send, publish or act on the output.
Prefer a guided flow? Adapt with the guided builder — it fills placeholders from your association profile.
Prompt template
Model a 13-week cashflow for our association. Opening cash: £{OPENING}. Expected receipts (week, amount, confidence): {RECEIPTS}. Committed payments (week, amount): {PAYMENTS}. Produce (1) base case, (2) downside where any receipt at <70% confidence slips 4 weeks, (3) upside where all confirmed. For each: lowest cash point and the week it hits. Flag any week where balance goes below £{FLOOR}. Do NOT invent numbers — mark any missing figure as {{MISSING}}.Replace bracketed placeholders with real context. Never paste identifying details about children, health or safeguarding cases.
Worked example
Opening cash: £120,000\nReceipts: W3 £45,000 (confirmed), W7 £80,000 (70% confidence)
What good output looks like
Three cashflow scenarios with lowest-point weeks called out and warnings for cash floor breaches.
Why this prompt works
Structures a hard finance conversation using only the numbers you actually have.
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