# Default-alive check

URL: /workflows/processes/runway/default-alive-check · Id: `workflow:default-alive-check`

> Default-alive check forecasts cash and growth forward each week and reports whether the Startup reaches profit first.

Default-alive check forecasts cash and growth forward each week and reports whether the [Startup](/business/nouns/startup) reaches profit first.

## Trigger
Runs every week. Part of [Runway](/workflows/processes/runway), run by the [Finance Team](/agents/finance).

## Steps
1. Read cash, net burn, and weekly growth.
2. Project both forward at the trailing rates.
3. Report default alive or default dead to the Founder.

## Outputs
- [Document](/business/nouns/document)

## Example
A podcast-editing marketplace has $80,000 in cash, burns $10,000 a month, and grows revenue 5% a week. The check reports default alive, with profit in month 6.