Bizplan

Bizplan is a modern business planning platform aimed at entrepreneurs, startups and small businesses that need to create professional business plans and financial projections. Writing a business plan can be daunting for first-time founders, who often lack experience with financial modelling and structuring a persuasive narrative for investors or lenders. Traditional word processor templates and spreadsheets provide little guidance and make it difficult to keep the narrative and the numbers consistent as assumptions change. Bizplan addresses this with a guided, step-by-step builder that breaks the plan into manageable sections and links financial inputs to automatically generated statements and charts. Its approach focuses on usability and visual presentation, helping users produce polished documents while also clarifying their own thinking about the market, business model, operations and funding requirements before they approach financiers.

Key features include a drag-and-drop plan builder with section templates and prompts, a financial modelling tool that produces revenue forecasts, expense budgets, profit and loss statements, cash flow projections and balance sheets, and dashboards that visualise key metrics. Progress tracking helps users see how complete each section is, and collaboration features allow co-founders, advisers or mentors to review and edit plans together. Finished plans can be shared online or exported as documents for submission to banks, investors, accelerators and grant programmes. Educational resources, including guidance and course content associated with the Startups.com ecosystem of which Bizplan is part, support users who are new to planning and fundraising. The service is web-based and requires no installation, making it accessible from any device with a browser. Target users include aspiring entrepreneurs, early-stage startup founders, small business owners seeking loans, students and incubator participants. Pricing starts from around USD 19 per month; this listing does not indicate a free trial, and there is no permanently free version.