Waitlist open · first 1,000 get 3 months free
02:47 AM — you, again, asking:

"What's your runway?"_

A 3-second question. For most funded founders, a 3-hour answer.

Klire is the financial terminal for founders — connects Mercury + Stripe and turns your balance into the number that matters: months until zero. Live, always true, no bookkeeping. You ship fast — know you're default alive.

★ First 1,000 founders: $0 for 3 months, then $6.99/mo — for life

THE OLD WAY

The number lives in six places.

Mercury Stripe Brex a spreadsheet QuickBooks Slack DMs
3 hours later, still guessing.
Introducing

The financial terminal.

Runway · burn · MRR · cash flow — one screen.

klireapp.com — terminal

Overview

Your runway, burn and cash flow — on one screen.
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Money, right now
Cash
$48.2k
↓ $9.1k
vs last month
Burn / mo
$11.4k
↑ 6%
vs last month
Runway
7.0 mo
✓ healthy
cash out: February 2027
MRR
$3.1k
↑ 22%
last 30d
Projected cash balance
On trackIn the red
Net burn $8.3k/mo · need $11.4k MRR to default alive
$48.2k$24.1k$0-$10.0k
JulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMar
MRR growth: 8%/mo
8%
Runway7.0 mo
Cash outFeb 2027
Break-even MRR$11.4k
✓
Everything looks healthy.

Runway: 7.0 months. Burn is stable. Keep MRR growing to extend further.

checked today at 8:00 am
Where your money goes
Team$7,200
Tools & SaaS$1,800
Infrastructure$900
Other$1,500
Total burn$11,400
Live feed
streaming
Stripe New subscriber 4m ago +$299
Mercury AWS 20h ago -$312
Mercury Payroll — Daniel Aug 4 -$4,800
Brex Figma Aug 2 -$45

One screen. Always true.

Connect Mercury + Stripe. No bookkeeping.

How startups die quietly

Stop finding out you're broke on a Tuesday.

You instrumented latency, error rates, token spend per user. Everything except your own survival. That's the dashboard that kills companies — the one that doesn't exist.

01

burn_v4_FINAL_REAL.xlsx

Last edited seven weeks ago. Your spreadsheet was right exactly once — the day you built it. Every decision since has run on fiction.

02

The investor question

"Quick q — what's your runway?" You said eleven months. It was 8.5. He knew your burn rate before you did, from your own update email.

03

QuickBooks lasted 9 days

Chart of accounts, reconciliation, accountant-brain. You don't need accounting at pre-revenue. You need to know if you're dying.

"I think we're fine? We're probably fine."
"If an investor asks for numbers right now, I need a day."
"That Anthropic bill was HOW much?"
"I'll fix the spreadsheet this weekend." — you won't
"Other founders seem to know their numbers. What do they know that I don't?" — nothing. they just see them.
What Klire does

One screen. Every number that can kill you.

// runway

Runway, as an actual date

Not a vibe. Klire tells you the day your cash hits zero — and updates it every time money moves. See the cliff before you walk off it.

// burn

Burn you can feel

Where the money actually goes, grouped the way founders think — not the way ledgers do. Spot the $1,900 of API tokens you forgot about.

// ai

An assistant that just says it

"You'll miss payroll in March unless MRR grows 18%." "Delaware franchise tax hits in 21 days — already in your projection." Plain words, every morning. Never sugarcoated.

The honest comparison

Your one option right now. It's bad.

😮‍💨 The spreadsheet life
  • You update it when you remember — so basically never
  • One broken formula and every number downstream is fiction
  • No clue what next month looks like until it arrives
  • "Runway" is whatever you felt like typing that day
  • Free — until the mistake costs you the company
Klire
  • Connects once, then updates itself — always current
  • Runway as a real date, recalculated automatically
  • Six months of cash projected before they happen
  • Plain-language alerts before things go wrong, not after
  • Less than a team lunch — and it might save the company
The honest roadmap

v1 is small on purpose.

Four numbers, one chart, one alert. We'd rather ship a dashboard you check every morning than a suite you configure for a week. Here's exactly where the line is.

In v1
  • Mercury, Stripe, and most US banks via Plaid — read-only
  • Cash, burn, runway, MRR — live, on one screen
  • 6-month cash projection — with US tax deadlines on the timeline (Delaware franchise tax, quarterly estimates, 1099 dates)
  • Tax set-aside: a "not your money" band, so the IRS never surprises you
  • Stripe payout tracking + failed-payment alerts — the silent MRR leak, watched
  • One plain-English alert a day, only when something matters
Not yet — founding users vote on order
  • EU bank feeds (bootstrapped on Stripe? Klire works day one with Stripe alone)
  • Invoice / receivables tracking
  • Multi-entity consolidation
  • Team seats
The point

Built for founders, not accountants.

Founding pricing

Free now. Cheap forever.

First 1,000 founders
$0
for the first 3 months
then $6.99/mo · locked for life $29
  • Runway, burn & cash flow — live
  • 6-month cash projections
  • Plain-language AI alerts
  • Unlimited everything, no seat limits
  • Direct line to the founder + a vote on the roadmap

No card now. 3 free months start when beta opens — the $6.99 lock survives the price going to $29 for everyone after.

Real questions, plain answers

FAQ.

When does beta open?

Soon. We're sequencing the first 100 founders carefully so onboarding actually works. Waitlist position decides invite order.

Do I need to be incorporated to use Klire?

No. Works whether you're pre-incorp or a Delaware C-corp running on Mercury. We treat the founder as the unit, not the entity.

Which banks and tools do you connect to?

v1: Mercury, Stripe, and most US banks (Chase, Brex, and the rest) via Plaid — all read-only. That's the whole story on purpose. Tell us what else you live in — reply to the welcome email; founding users set the integration order.

Is my data secure?

Read-only connections through Plaid — the same rails Mercury and Ramp customers already trust. Klire can see transactions, never move money. No credentials stored, encrypted at rest, one-click disconnect.

Isn't this just Mercury's dashboard?

Mercury shows what happened in one bank. Klire sees your bank + Stripe + everything else, projects six months forward, and tells you what's about to happen. Mercury shows the balance. Klire shows the deadline.

Does Klire do my taxes?

No — and it never will. Klire puts US tax deadlines on your cash timeline with estimated amounts: Delaware franchise tax (most startups owe ~$400–800, not the five-figure number on the scary letter), quarterly estimates, 1099 dates. Taxes become scheduled outflows instead of ambushes. Filing stays with your CPA.

I'm bootstrapped in the EU — is this for me?

Yes, with one honest caveat: v1 connects Stripe (works day one, answers "what did I actually keep") but not EU bank feeds yet. Founding users vote on which integrations ship next — EU banks are on the ballot.

How is this different from QuickBooks / Pilot / Numeric?

QuickBooks is bookkeeping for accountants. Pilot is a service that charges you to do your books. Numeric and Mosaic are built for finance teams at scale. Klire is for the founder who doesn't have a finance team — and doesn't want one yet.

What's the catch on $0 for 3 months?

None. First 1,000 founders get 3 months completely free when beta opens, then $6.99/mo — locked for life, even after the price goes to $29 for everyone else. After the first 1,000 spots are gone, it's $29/mo with no free trial.

How long does setup take?

About four minutes: connect Mercury + Stripe, see your real runway. No chart of accounts, no categorizing, no onboarding call. The longest step is finding your phone for 2FA.

"We thought we had a year.
We had five months."

— every startup postmortem, eventually

None of them failed at product. They failed at arithmetic.

Be the founder who answers
in 3 seconds.

Private beta opens soon. The first 1,000 founders get 3 months free, then $6.99/mo for life. Next time someone asks your runway: screenshot, send, back to shipping.

No credit card. No spam. Just a heads-up when beta opens.