# Burn rate

A single month tells you very little, because one big payment can double it. The skill averages your real outflows over a trailing window, tells you which months it used, and says how many of them actually carried spend, so you can see whether the average means anything.

`npx skills add wellapp-ai/skills --skill avg-burn`

### What's our burn rate?

€380K a month, averaged over Apr, May and Jun. Each of those months carried real spend, so the window is not padded with quiet ones. The monthly figures were €372K, €397K and €371K.

## How the skill answers

Every step of the run, in order, with the card each one returns. A step that hands its work to another skill says which one.

01. You ask  
  
    What's our burn rate?

02. Pin the workspaceSkill used [define-workspace](/content/skills/define-workspace/index.html)

### Workspaces

Pick the workspaces to work in.

Your workspaces

Maxime Champoux

Well App Inc.

Default workspace

03. Confirm the accounting settings this figure readsSkill used confirm-accounting-settings

04. Confirm the bank connectionSkill used [connect-tools](/content/skills/connect-tools/index.html)

### Connect a tool

Pick a tool to connect it to Well.

Available tools

Qonto

Mercury

QuickBooks

Xero

Chronograph

Daloopa

iBanFirst

Moody's

Morningstar

MSCI

MT Newswires

Pennylane

PitchBook Premium

Plaid

S&P Global

Wise

05. Ask which month anchors the windowSkill used [define-period](/content/skills/define-period/index.html)

06. Confirm every sync has finished, and recentlySkill used verify-sync-freshness

07. Confirm the window holds transactionsSkill used verify-window-has-activity

08. Attach every account to a company you ownSkill used link-accounts-to-companies

09. Categorize the windowSkill used categorize-window-transactions

10. Settle the currencySkill used [normalize-currency](/content/skills/normalize-currency/index.html)

11. Elect the sign conventionSkill used elect-sign-convention

12. Confirm the exemptionsSkill used confirm-burn-exemptions

13. Anchor the window, then divide

14. Put the figure on the card

15. You get

### Avg Burn / Month

Apr to Jun 2026

€380,000

### What's driving this

## Frequently asked questions

### Why average instead of last month?

Because one annual invoice or a delayed payroll run can double or halve a single month. The average over a window is the figure you can plan against.

### Can I change the window?

Yes. Ask for a different number of months and the skill recomputes, and it always states the window it used.

### What if a month had no spend?

The skill reports how much of the window actually carried spend. An average over a mostly empty window is flagged rather than presented as fact.