For businesses that rely on accurate and adaptable cash flow forecasting, a streamlined, automated process can save hours each week and provide reliable insights into the future. But in the rush to automate, many software platforms have created a new problem: the "black box" forecast. When an AI tool generates numbers using hidden, complex algorithms, finance professionals are left with a critical lack of trust. Instead of saving time, they find themselves trapped in a cycle of constant auditing just to figure out where the numbers came from.

Dryrun’s Auto Forecast feature was built to solve precisely this problem. By combining automated data ingestion with absolute logic and concrete transparency, Dryrun delivers a reliable baseline forecast that finance pros can instantly understand, verify, and control.

Time-Saving, Consistent, and Completely Auditable

Forecasting cash flow manually is notorious for eating up the workweek, especially when consolidating data across multiple accounts, entities, and horizons. While many finance teams stick to spreadsheets to maintain control, those models are inherently fragile and prone to version-control chaos.

Dryrun’s Auto Forecast offers a powerful alternative. By harnessing historical data directly from your accounting software, Dryrun sets up an accurate, data-driven baseline in seconds—without stripping away your visibility.

What Dryrun's Auto Forecast delivers:

• Instant Baseline Setup: Generate a minimum viable forecast at the click of a button, eliminating hours of manual data entry.
• Zero "Black Box" Anxiety: Every calculation is transparent. Finance pros can instantly trace exactly how a projection was derived, eliminating audit fatigue.
• A Launchpad for CFO Intuition: The automated baseline serves as your starting point, not your final destination. It gives the CFO a clean, logical foundation to overlay their own strategic insights, market data, and operational intuition.

How It Works: Concrete, Math-Based Forecast Options

To ensure the numbers are always traceable and trustworthy, Dryrun offers distinct, clearly articulated Auto Forecast methods designed to match how your business actually runs:

1. Dynamic Forecasting

Often, businesses need to project future cash flow based on recent trends, particularly for expenses that fluctuate or scale with growth. The Dynamic option allows Dryrun to take data from a recent, preset timeframe and use it as a logical template for future months.

• Best for: Predictable expenses, fixed monthly costs (like office rent or utilities), or recent operational shifts that don't follow historical seasonal patterns.
• The Transparent Logic: You choose the exact parameters—for example, "Starting 2 months ago and using 3 months of data to map forward." Then, you select the explicit calculation rule: the average, highest value, lowest value, or the first instance within that timeframe. Because the rule is explicit, your team knows the exact math behind every future data point.

2. Map to Last Year

For businesses tied to cyclical trends, looking at the immediate past isn't enough. The Map to Last Year option captures historical seasonality with pinpoint precision.

• Best for: Seasonal businesses, companies with cyclical recurring revenue patterns, or teams looking to stress-test this year's performance against the previous year's baselines.
• The Transparent Logic: Dryrun pulls your monthly totals directly from last year’s accounting records and populates them into the corresponding months of the upcoming year. It mirrors your historical cycles perfectly, giving you a realistic, unmanipulated baseline to work from.

Building Your Foundation in Minutes

Each of these options is designed to give your team a massive head start. Rather than spending days building the foundation of a forecast, Dryrun hands you an actionable, verifiable baseline in minutes.

Once the baseline is established, the real power of Dryrun kicks in: complete manual flexibility. Unlike rigid AI tools that lock down the data, Dryrun leaves the steering wheel completely in your hands. Finance teams can instantly adjust specific accounts, introduce anticipated line items, "bump" invoice dates based on real-world customer relationships, and model custom variables. This ensures your forecast is constantly adapting to evolving business needs, backed by hard data and human judgment.

The Victory Over Spreadsheet Fatigue

Dryrun’s Auto Forecast proves that automation doesn't have to mean a loss of control. By taking the tedious guesswork and manual entry out of the equation, Dryrun provides a robust, audit-free starting point for monthly reviews, annual budgeting, and high-stakes strategic planning.

Instead of spending your week hunting down broken spreadsheet formulas or questioning an AI's hidden logic, Dryrun frees your finance team to focus on what matters most: analyzing scenarios, mitigating risks, and guiding your business toward long-term success.

With just a few clicks, you get the automated speed your schedule demands, the visual clarity your board requires, and the absolute mathematical transparency your finance team trusts.

Dryrun delivers real-time, dynamic cash flow and revenue forecasts with complete manual control and unlimited scenario modeling.

Schedule a discovery meeting with our team or start a free trial today to see how Dryrun can transform your forecasting process.

Dryrun: Clear Cash Flow. Complete Control.

Cash flow forecasting software that delivers crystal-clear forecasts through an unmatched blend of automation and control.