A powerful tool for transforming structured YAML data into comprehensive business plans and financial projections.

The Business Plan Generator takes a data-driven approach to creating business plans. By defining your business model, staff, products, clients, and expenses in a structured YAML file, the tool generates detailed financial projections and strategic insights.

• Multi-year Financial Projections: Generate quarterly or monthly projections over customizable time periods
• Staff Cost Modeling: Accurately calculate staff costs including employer contributions
• Product Portfolio Management: Track product development timelines and availability
• Revenue Forecasting: Project revenue based on configurable client acquisition rules
• Expense Tracking: Calculate operating costs across multiple categories
• Cash Flow Analysis: Visualize your financial runway and key performance indicators

1. Define Your Business Parameters:

   • Set up your projection timeframe and frequency
   • Structure your team and compensation plans
   • Outline your product offerings with pricing models
   • Define target market segments and growth assumptions
   • Detail operating expenses and infrastructure costs

2. Generate Projections: The system processes your YAML input to produce comprehensive financial projections.

3. Analyze Results: Review your business viability through automatically generated charts and reports.

The input.yaml file contains all the parameters for your business plan:

gen:
  from:
    year: 2024
    month: 3
  frequency: quarter
  duration: 
    year: 5

employer_contribution_percentage: 0.35

departements:
  - name: Leadership
    color: green
    staff:
      - name: CEO
        salary: 85000/year
        from:
          text: Q2 2024

# Additional sections include:
# - products
# - clients
# - offices
# - countries
# - expenses

• Startup Funding: Create professional business plans for investor pitches
• Business Expansion: Model new product lines or market expansions
• Financial Planning: Forecast cash needs and profitability milestones
• Scenario Analysis: Compare different business strategies by adjusting parameters
• Budget Planning: Set realistic targets based on projected growth

1. Clone this repository
2. Edit the businessplan/input.yaml file with your business details
3. Run the generator (instructions for specific command to be added)
4. View your generated business plan

(List of dependencies and system requirements to be added)

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

(License information to be added)