# See the shortfall while you can still do something about it

Source: https://www.electe.net/use-cases/forecasting

Site guide: https://www.electe.net/llms.txt

Cash, payroll & demand

### Most companies find out too late, and by arithmetic.

The forecast is a spreadsheet somebody built two years ago, and it is now the only one who understands it. It gets updated when there is time. Which means the cash question — can we make payroll in eleven weeks — gets answered by the person who is most confident, not by the data.

### How ELECTE forecasts it