{"id":33,"date":"2026-08-07T08:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/finance\/portfolio\/runway-extended-for-a-growing-agency\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T08:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:18:06","slug":"runway-extended-for-a-growing-agency","status":"publish","type":"canvas_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/finance\/portfolio\/runway-extended-for-a-growing-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Runway extended for a growing agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container my-5\"><div class=\"row justify-content-center\"><div class=\"col-lg-9\"><h5 class=\"text-uppercase font-body ls-2 color-2 mb-3\">The situation<\/h5><p class=\"lead op-07\">A design agency of thirty people was profitable on paper and short of cash every quarter. The problem was not margin, it was timing: project invoicing sat weeks behind delivery while payroll did not move.<\/p><h5 class=\"text-uppercase font-body ls-2 color-2 mb-3 mt-5\">What we did<\/h5><p class=\"mb-0\">We rebuilt the model around a rolling thirteen-week cash forecast, moved billing to staged milestones and set a simple reserve policy. The finance lead now presents one page to the board each month, and hiring decisions are taken against a horizon rather than a bank balance.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A design agency of thirty people was profitable on paper and short of cash every quarter. The problem was not margin, it was timing: project invoicing sat weeks behind delivery while payroll did not move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":83,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","canvas_portfolio_category":[2],"class_list":["post-33","canvas_portfolio","type-canvas_portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","canvas_portfolio_category-business-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/finance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/canvas_portfolio\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/finance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/canvas_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/finance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/canvas_portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/finance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/finance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/finance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"canvas_portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/finance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/canvas_portfolio_category?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}