RunSmart by Projection Genie and Jirav both help businesses and accounting firms move beyond historical accounting into financial forecasting, budgeting, scenario planning, workforce planning, and forward-looking financial analysis.

But they approach financial planning differently.

Jirav is a structured FP&A platform built around budgeting, driver-based financial modeling, departmental planning, workforce forecasting, dashboards, reporting, and accounting-firm advisory workflows.

RunSmart focuses more heavily on automatically analyzing financial behavior, selecting statistical forecasting methods, establishing a starting forecast, evaluating financial health, identifying emerging risks, and connecting SaaS subscription activity directly to the broader company financial model.

For SaaS businesses using Stripe and QuickBooks Online, RunSmart also connects subscription intelligence across:

Historical → Live / MTD → Forecast

The choice between RunSmart and Jirav therefore is not simply about whether either platform can forecast.

Both can.

The more useful question is:

Do you want a structured FP&A platform where finance professionals can build and manage detailed financial plans, or a financial intelligence platform designed to automate more of the forecasting and interpretation before the user begins planning?

This comparison examines RunSmart and Jirav across:

• Financial forecasting
• SaaS analytics
• Scenario planning
• Workforce planning
• Budgeting
• Financial reporting
• Financial health
• Accounting-firm workflows
• Portfolio intelligence
• Pricing

Note: RunSmart's MCP integration is coming soon and is not yet generally available. References to MCP capabilities in this article describe planned functionality that will be available in a future release.

RunSmart vs. Jirav at a Glance

The platforms overlap in important areas, but their primary users and workflows are different.

Jirav is particularly strong for finance teams, accounting firms, and fractional CFOs that want structured FP&A, driver-based planning, departmental budgets, workforce forecasting, dashboards, and collaborative planning.

RunSmart is designed more around automatically determining where a business may be heading and helping founders, advisors, and portfolio users evaluate future financial health, risk, and operational decisions.

What Is RunSmart by Projection Genie?

RunSmart is a financial intelligence, forecasting, and planning platform designed for founders, small and midsize businesses, accounting firms, advisors, and investors.

RunSmart connects directly to QuickBooks Online and analyzes historical company financial data.

Its capabilities include:

• Historical financial analysis
• Automated statistical forecasting
• Integrated financial statement forecasts
• Scenario modeling
• Budgeting
• Budget-versus-actual tracking
• Workforce planning
• Financial health analysis
• Emerging risk detection
• Automated financial reporting
• Portfolio-level intelligence
• Collaboration and role-based access

For SaaS companies, RunSmart can also connect Stripe subscription activity with QuickBooks Online financial information.

This adds subscription intelligence such as:

• MRR
• ARR
• Active Customers
• Customer Growth
• Customer Churn
• New MRR
• Reactivation MRR
• Expansion MRR
• Contraction MRR
• Churned MRR
• NRR
• GRR
• Net New MRR
• SaaS Quick Ratio
• ARPA
• LTV
• Burn Multiple
• Rule of 40

RunSmart organizes SaaS intelligence into:

Historical: completed-month subscription performance

Live / MTD: current Stripe activity through the latest available data

Forecast: modeled future subscription performance

This allows users to understand:

What happened → What is happening now → What may happen next

Does RunSmart Require 24 Months of Financial History?

Not to use RunSmart.

Businesses can use applicable non-forecasting capabilities before they have 24 months of historical financial information.

Depending on the plan, these can include:

• Historical financial analysis
• Live Stripe subscription analytics
• SaaS KPIs
• Financial-health analysis
• Budgeting
• Workforce planning
• Reporting

At least 24 months of historical financial data is required for RunSmart's automated forecasting capabilities.

Once sufficient history exists, RunSmart can analyze past financial behavior and automatically establish a forward-looking baseline.

How Does RunSmart Forecast Financial Performance?

RunSmart evaluates multiple statistical forecasting approaches instead of forcing every financial account through the same method.

Supported approaches can include:

• Holt-Winters
• Holt linear trend
• Simple exponential smoothing
• ARIMA
• Theta
• Drift
• Mean
• Naive
• Seasonal Naive
• Croston
• Trend and seasonal regression approaches

Different financial series behave differently.

Revenue may have:

• Growth
• Seasonality
• Cyclical patterns
• Volatility

Payroll may follow a stable trend.

Rent may remain relatively flat.

Marketing may fluctuate substantially.

Some expense categories may contain intermittent activity.

RunSmart evaluates historical predictive performance across competing forecasting methods to determine which approach is most appropriate for each financial series.

This means the user does not have to manually decide which forecasting model should be applied to every account.

RunSmart creates the baseline first.

The user can then modify assumptions involving:

• Revenue
• Pricing
• Subscriber growth
• Churn
• Expansion
• Contraction
• Hiring
• Compensation
• Marketing
• Operating expenses
• Financing
• Other business drivers

Those changes can flow through projected:

• Revenue
• Expenses
• Profitability
• Cash flow
• Cash balances
• Financial statements
• Financial health
• Runway

What Is Jirav?

Jirav is a financial planning and analysis platform designed for businesses, accounting firms, finance teams, fractional CFOs, and advisory practices.

Its capabilities include:

• Financial forecasting
• Budgeting
• Three-statement financial planning
• Driver-based modeling
• Scenario planning
• Workforce planning
• Departmental planning
• KPI dashboards
• Budget-versus-actual analysis
• Financial reporting
• Cash forecasting
• Operational metrics
• Accounting-firm client management

Jirav combines accounting, workforce, and operational data inside a structured FP&A environment.

Its current account structure centers around two core account types:

• Essentials
• Enterprise

Both include reporting, dashboards, KPIs, accounting integrations, financial statements, budget-versus-actual analysis, and forecasting tools.

The biggest differences are the depth of financial modeling, scenario management, workforce forecasting, and planning horizon.

How Do Jirav Essentials and Enterprise Differ?

Jirav's current product structure separates simpler financial planning from deeper FP&A modeling.

Jirav Essentials

Essentials is designed around:

• Historical reporting
• Budget-versus-actual analysis
• Dashboards
• KPIs
• Auto-Forecast
• Accounts Receivable forecasting
• Accounts Payable forecasting
• Cash forecasting
• Manual budgeting
• Approximately one year of forward planning

Essentials supports one active Budget and one active Forecast.

It does not provide the same driver-based modeling, assumptions, workforce forecasting, multiple scenarios, or long-range planning available in Enterprise.

Jirav Enterprise

Enterprise adds more sophisticated FP&A capabilities, including:

• Full driver-based financial modeling
• Planning assumptions
• Workforce forecasting
• Multiple active plans
• Scenario-based planning
• Department budgeting
• Plan sharing
• 5+ year forecasts
• Unlimited archived plans

Enterprise is designed for organizations and advisors that want a more detailed, operationally driven planning environment.

How Does Jirav Auto-Forecast Work?

Jirav provides an Auto-Forecast feature that uses historical financial data to establish a forward-looking starting point.

This is important because Jirav should not be described as requiring every forecast to be built manually.

In Automatic mode, Jirav forecasts Income Statement accounts at the first-child-account level.

When sufficient history is available, it uses a linear trend with seasonality.

If the data is too sparse, Jirav can fall back to methods such as:

• Linear trend without seasonality
• Simple average

Users can also switch to Custom mode and:

• Choose specific forecasting methods by account
• Exclude certain accounts from Auto-Forecast
• Use manual planning or drivers instead
• Apply Auto-Forecast at a more granular level

Jirav also analyzes trend, seasonality, and outliers when creating its automated forecasts.

What Is the Biggest Difference Between RunSmart and Jirav Forecasting?

Both platforms provide automation, but they automate different parts of the planning process.

Jirav provides an automated starting forecast while also giving finance users the ability to move into:

• Driver-based models
• Custom assumptions
• Department planning
• Custom tables
• Manual financial inputs

RunSmart places more emphasis on automated statistical model selection.

Instead of relying primarily on one trend-and-seasonality methodology, RunSmart can evaluate a broader set of statistical approaches and historical predictive performance before selecting the baseline for each financial series.

A simplified distinction is:

Jirav: Automatically establish a forecast, then give finance users a structured FP&A environment for deeper driver-based modeling.

RunSmart: Automatically evaluate multiple forecasting approaches, establish the financial baseline, then allow users to evaluate decisions and scenarios around that baseline.

Both reduce manual spreadsheet work.

They simply approach forecasting from different directions.

How Much Historical Data Does Jirav Need for Auto-Forecast?

Jirav states that its Auto-Forecast generally needs at least:

• 2 full years of usable historical data for trend analysis
• 3 full years for projecting seasonality

Jirav also notes that more data improves forecast reliability and that unusable or incomplete periods may reduce the effective amount of available history.

This is similar to RunSmart in that meaningful automated forecasting requires enough historical information to identify patterns.

RunSmart requires at least 24 consecutive months of financial history for automated forecasting.

However, RunSmart businesses can still use applicable historical and live analysis before becoming eligible for automated forecasting.

Which Platform Is Better for Three-Statement Financial Planning?

Both platforms support integrated financial planning.

Jirav's subscriptions include:

• Income Statement
• Balance Sheet
• Cash Flow

It also includes system forecasting for:

• Accounts Receivable
• Accounts Payable
• Cash

Enterprise users can build more detailed financial models using driver-based logic, assumptions, and operational data.

RunSmart also produces forward-looking:

• Profit & Loss
• Balance Sheet
• Cash Flow Statement

The difference is less about whether the statements exist and more about how the underlying forecast is created.

Jirav gives finance users greater control over building the planning model.

RunSmart automates more of the statistical starting point.

Which Platform Is Better for Scenario Planning?

Both platforms support scenario analysis, but the available capabilities depend more heavily on the Jirav subscription.

Jirav Essentials

Essentials maintains:

• 1 Budget
• 1 Forecast

It does not support multiple what-if scenarios or multiple active forecast versions.

Jirav Enterprise

Enterprise supports:

• Up to 5 active plans
• Unlimited archived plans
• Scenario modeling
• What-if analysis
• Plan-of-record locking
• Long-range forecasting

This allows users to maintain different versions of the financial plan and compare alternative operating assumptions.

RunSmart

RunSmart allows users to model assumptions involving:

• Revenue
• Pricing
• Subscriber growth
• Churn
• Expansion
• Contraction
• Hiring
• Compensation
• Marketing
• Operating expenses
• Financing
• Other business drivers

Those assumptions can affect projected:

• Revenue
• Profitability
• Cash flow
• Cash
• Financial statements
• Financial health
• Runway

For SaaS subscription forecasting, users can also work with:

• Base
• Bull
• Bear
• Custom

forecast assumptions.

The primary difference is again the starting point.

Jirav Enterprise emphasizes structured FP&A model management.

RunSmart emphasizes scenarios around an automatically generated financial baseline.

Which Platform Is Better for SaaS Companies?

Jirav has meaningful SaaS planning capabilities.

Its planning documentation includes examples for:

• ACV-based subscription revenue
• Quota-based bookings
• CRM data
• SaaS metrics
• Deferred revenue
• Custom operational tables

This means an experienced finance user can build a sophisticated SaaS planning model inside Jirav.

RunSmart takes a more purpose-built approach for SaaS companies using Stripe and QuickBooks Online.

The subscription logic is already built into the platform rather than requiring the finance team to construct it through custom drivers and operational tables.

Historical, Live, and Forecast SaaS Intelligence in RunSmart

RunSmart organizes Stripe subscription data into:

Historical Actuals → Live / MTD → Forecast

Historical Subscription Performance

Completed historical months can include metrics such as:

• MRR
• ARR
• Active Customers
• Customer Growth
• Customer Churn
• NRR
• GRR
• Net New MRR
• SaaS Quick Ratio
• ARPA
• LTV
• Burn Multiple
• Rule of 40

MRR movements are separated into:

• New MRR
• Reactivation MRR
• Expansion MRR
• Contraction MRR
• Churned MRR

A simplified MRR bridge is:

Ending MRR = Beginning MRR + New MRR + Reactivation MRR + Expansion MRR - Contraction MRR - Churned MRR

Live Subscription Performance

RunSmart also provides a dedicated view of the current month.

Current point-in-time measures can include:

• MRR
• ARR
• Active Customers
• ARPA

Month-to-date subscription activity can include:

• New MRR
• Reactivation MRR
• Expansion MRR
• Contraction MRR
• Churned MRR
• Net New MRR
• New customers
• Reactivated customers
• Churned customers

Keeping current-month activity separate prevents an incomplete month from distorting completed historical trends.

Subscription Forecasting

Once sufficient history exists, RunSmart can forecast future subscription performance.

Users can modify assumptions involving:

• Pricing
• Subscriber growth
• Churn
• Expansion
• Contraction
• Collections

Those assumptions can affect:

• Subscribers
• MRR
• ARR
• Billings
• Recognized revenue
• Cash collections

The subscription forecast then feeds the broader financial forecast.

How Does RunSmart Connect SaaS Metrics to Financial Statements?

Subscription metrics and accounting revenue are not the same thing.

RunSmart distinguishes among:

• MRR
• Net Billings
• Recognized Revenue
• Cash Collected
• Deferred Revenue
• Accounts Receivable

MRR measures normalized recurring subscription value.

Net Billings reflects invoiced subscription activity after applicable credits.

Recognized Revenue reflects revenue associated with the applicable service period.

Cash Collected represents customer payments actually received.

For accrual-basis QuickBooks projects, Recognized Revenue can flow into the forecasted P&L while Accounts Receivable and Deferred Revenue affect the broader financial statements.

For cash-basis projects, Cash Collected drives subscription revenue.

This connects:

Subscribers → MRR → Billings → Revenue / Cash → Financial Statements → Profitability → Cash → Runway

Jirav can also model SaaS revenue and deferred-revenue logic through its planning environment.

RunSmart's distinction is that Stripe subscription behavior is already built into the workflow.

Which Platform Is Better for Workforce Planning?

Both platforms provide meaningful workforce-planning capabilities.

Jirav's workforce planning is particularly robust.

Its workforce tools can support:

• Existing employee rosters
• Planned hires
• Terminations
• Salary increases
• Fully burdened payroll costs
• Payroll taxes
• Benefits
• Multiple salary-account allocations
• Hourly employees
• Bi-weekly payroll

Jirav can also use workforce information as part of broader driver-based planning.

RunSmart includes a dedicated Workforce Planner for modeling:

• Existing roles
• Future hires
• Compensation
• Payroll taxes
• Benefits
• Raises
• Start dates
• End dates

RunSmart allows workforce costs to be mapped into forecastable P&L accounts, including:

• Cost of Goods Sold
• Operating Expenses

Those customized workforce costs can then flow into the financial forecast.

The differentiation is not that Jirav lacks workforce planning.

It clearly does not.

Jirav provides deeper FP&A-style workforce modeling.

RunSmart provides a more streamlined operational workforce-planning workflow connected directly to its automated financial forecast.

Which Platform Is Better for Budgeting?

Both platforms provide significant budgeting functionality.

Jirav is particularly strong for structured budgeting processes.

Enterprise users can build:

• Driver-based budgets
• Department budgets
• Collaborative budgets
• Multiple plans
• Top-down goals
• Bottom-up assumptions

Finance teams can use assumptions and drivers such as:

• Growth rates
• Percentage of revenue
• Cost per headcount
• Units × price
• Department allocations

RunSmart follows a more connected decision workflow:

Historical Performance → Forecast → Scenario → Budget → Actual Results

Users can choose a forecast scenario as the operating plan and then track actual results against that budget.

For companies with a dedicated finance team running a formal budgeting process, Jirav provides greater planning structure.

For founders and advisors who want budgeting connected directly to an automated financial forecast, RunSmart provides a simpler workflow.

Which Platform Is Better for Financial Reporting?

Jirav has the advantage in traditional customizable FP&A reporting.

Its platform includes:

• Financial reports
• Dashboards
• KPIs
• Custom tables
• Budget-versus-actual analysis
• Department reporting
• Operational metrics
• Board-ready reporting templates
• Executive summaries

Jirav can combine financial, workforce, and operational information in dashboards and reports.

RunSmart provides:

• Financial statements
• Automated recurring reports
• KPI reporting
• Forecast views
• Financial-health analysis
• Risk intelligence
• Portfolio views

RunSmart does not attempt to replicate the same level of traditional FP&A report customization.

Its emphasis is more heavily on automatically calculating the underlying financial intelligence.

Which Platform Is Better for Financial Health Analysis?

RunSmart has the stronger dedicated financial-health framework.

Its Business Health Scorecard evaluates:

• Profitability
• Liquidity
• Solvency
• Efficiency
• Capitalization

The scorecard combines 13 financial KPIs into an overall assessment.

RunSmart also monitors for emerging risks involving:

• Cash insolvency
• Debt-service coverage
• Interest coverage
• Sustained losses
• Rapid cash deterioration
• Revenue contraction
• Revenue downtrends
• Margin compression
• Liquidity weakening
• Leverage expansion

Jirav provides KPIs, dashboards, forecasts, reports, and variance analysis that finance users can use to assess business performance.

RunSmart's distinction is that it explicitly translates those financial signals into:

• Health grades
• Emerging-risk alerts
• Forward-looking financial warnings

Which Platform Is Better for Accounting Firms?

Jirav is one of the stronger platforms in this comparison category for accounting firms.

Its Partner Portal is specifically designed to help firms manage multiple client accounts.

The portal allows designated firm users to:

• Create client accounts
• Clone accounts
• Upgrade accounts
• Manage subscriptions
• Switch between clients

Jirav currently provides accounting-firm account types such as:

Controller Essentials

Designed for clients needing:

• Historical financial reporting
• Workforce analytics
• KPIs
• Budget-versus-actual analysis
• Forward-looking Auto-Forecast

CFO Enterprise

Designed for clients needing:

• Custom budgets
• Long-range forecasts
• Workforce planning
• Bottom-up scenario modeling
• More sophisticated financial planning

Both can also be configured with departments.

RunSmart's accounting-firm approach is different.

Rather than focusing primarily on providing separate FP&A planning environments across client accounts, RunSmart also includes a Portfolio View designed to help advisors identify which businesses may require attention first.

Which Platform Is Better for Portfolio Intelligence?

Jirav's Partner Portal is primarily an account-management and client-planning hub.

It helps firms manage different clients and choose the appropriate financial-planning environment for each one.

RunSmart's Portfolio View is designed more specifically around cross-client financial intelligence.

It can surface information such as:

• Revenue
• Net Income
• Net Margin
• Cash
• Financial Health Grade
• Emerging Risks

For Stripe-connected SaaS businesses, advisors can also compare:

• MRR
• Active Subscribers
• NRR

This helps answer questions such as:

• Which businesses have weakening cash?
• Which businesses have declining margins?
• Which clients have emerging financial risks?
• Which SaaS clients have weaker subscription performance?

The distinction is:

Jirav helps firms manage and deliver FP&A planning across client accounts.

RunSmart places additional emphasis on using cross-client financial signals to prioritize advisory attention.

Which Platform Is Better for Departmental Planning?

Jirav has the advantage.

Jirav supports departmental planning and reporting across supported subscription types.

Departments can be mapped from accounting systems such as:

• QuickBooks Online classes or locations
• Sage Intacct departments or locations
• Xero tracking categories
• NetSuite departments
• Excel-defined structures

Enterprise users can use department-level assumptions, allocations, workforce plans, and budgets as part of the financial model.

RunSmart is designed more around company-level financial planning rather than detailed departmental FP&A.

For organizations that need department managers actively participating in the budget process, Jirav is more appropriate.

Which Platform Has More Accounting Integrations?

Jirav has the broader accounting integration ecosystem.

Its current account documentation lists integrations including:

• QuickBooks Online
• QuickBooks Desktop
• Sage Intacct
• NetSuite
• Xero
• Excel

Jirav can also import workforce and operational data into its planning environment.

RunSmart currently centers its financial intelligence around QuickBooks Online.

It then adds deeper purpose-built operating integrations, including Stripe for SaaS companies.

The difference is:

Jirav: broader accounting and FP&A integration flexibility.

RunSmart: a narrower financial foundation with deeper specialized workflows around selected operating data.

Which Platform Is Better for Businesses Without an FP&A Team?

RunSmart is specifically designed to reduce the amount of financial-model construction the user needs to perform.

The founder or business owner does not have to determine:

• Which forecasting model should be applied
• Whether seasonality exists
• Which methodology historically predicts better
• How each financial account should be modeled
• How to construct an integrated baseline forecast

RunSmart automates more of that starting process.

Jirav does provide Auto-Forecast, which makes its platform more accessible than a purely manual FP&A system.

But its strongest capabilities, including:

• Driver-based models
• Assumptions
• Department planning
• Collaborative budgets
• Custom tables
• Workforce modeling

are most valuable when a finance professional is actively managing the planning process.

For businesses without an FP&A function, RunSmart may therefore provide a lower-friction workflow.

How Much Does RunSmart Cost?

RunSmart has three single-project plans:

• Standard — $99/month
• Premium — $299/month
• Pro — $499/month

Stripe subscription analytics are included across all three plans.

Standard

Standard provides historical financial analysis, historical and live Stripe analytics, and other applicable non-forecasting capabilities.

It does not include automated forecasting.

Premium

Premium adds:

12-month automated financial and subscription forecasting

for eligible businesses.

Pro

Pro provides:

Up to five years of automated financial forecasting

along with additional advanced planning, collaboration, integrations, and portfolio functionality.

For Pro multi-project purchases, projects are sold in bundles of:

• 5
• 10
• 15
• 20
• and additional multiples of five

All projects within those bundles cost:

$249/project/month

including the first project.

Annual billing receives a 10% discount.

How Much Does Jirav Cost?

Jirav currently publishes business pricing of:

• Starter — $10,000/year
• Pro — $15,000/year
• Enterprise — custom pricing

Starter is positioned for smaller finance teams that need company-level planning and reporting through the following year.

Pro adds more collaborative, departmental, and multi-year planning.

Enterprise is designed for teams requiring longer-range and more complex planning, expanded departments, additional integrations, and greater model capacity.

Jirav's product documentation also describes the newer underlying account types as Essentials and Enterprise, which determine the available modeling depth, scenario management, workforce capabilities, and forecast horizon.

The pricing models therefore target somewhat different buying motions.

RunSmart provides monthly self-service pricing starting at $99.

Jirav's published business pricing begins at $10,000 annually and includes implementation and support as part of a more traditional FP&A platform purchase.

Which Platform Is More Affordable?

RunSmart is substantially less expensive at the entry level.

RunSmart Standard costs:

$99/month, or $1,188 before any annual discount.

Premium costs:

$299/month, or $3,588 before any annual discount.

Pro costs:

$499/month, or $5,988 before any annual discount.

Jirav Starter begins at:

$10,000/year

and Pro costs:

$15,000/year.

But price alone does not determine the better product.

Jirav includes a deeper traditional FP&A environment with:

• Department planning
• Collaborative budgets
• Driver-based models
• Broad accounting integrations
• Detailed workforce planning
• Custom operational models

RunSmart is designed to automate more of the forecasting and financial-interpretation process for businesses that may not need that level of FP&A infrastructure.

When Is Jirav Better Than RunSmart?

Jirav may be the better choice when the organization needs:

• Structured FP&A workflows
• Department budgets
• Collaborative planning
• Driver-based financial models
• Custom operational models
• Workforce forecasting
• Long-range Enterprise planning
• Multiple active plans
• Formal scenario management
• Broad accounting integrations
• Accounting-firm client planning environments

Jirav is particularly strong when finance professionals want significant control over how the financial model is constructed.

When Is RunSmart Better Than Jirav?

RunSmart may be the better choice when the organization wants:

• Automated statistical forecasting
• Broader automated model selection
• Less manual financial-model construction
• Financial-health scoring
• Emerging-risk detection
• Integrated QuickBooks and Stripe intelligence
• Historical, live, and forecast SaaS analytics
• Subscription forecasting
• Workforce planning
• Portfolio-level financial intelligence
• Transparent monthly pricing

RunSmart is particularly relevant for founders and advisors who want more of the forecasting methodology and financial interpretation performed automatically.

RunSmart vs. Jirav: Which Should You Choose?

Choose Jirav if your priority is:

• Driver-based FP&A
• Collaborative budgeting
• Department planning
• Detailed workforce planning
• Long-range financial modeling
• Multiple scenarios and plans
• Broad accounting integrations
• Structured accounting-firm advisory workflows

Choose RunSmart if your priority is:

• Automated statistical forecasting
• Automated model selection
• Financial-health interpretation
• Emerging-risk identification
• Integrated QuickBooks and Stripe intelligence
• Live subscription monitoring
• SaaS forecasting
• Portfolio-level financial intelligence
• Reducing the amount of model construction required

For an established finance team or accounting firm that wants to build and maintain detailed financial-planning models, Jirav provides a strong FP&A environment.

For founders and advisors who want the software to automatically perform more of the forecasting and financial analysis before they begin making decisions, RunSmart takes a different approach.

RunSmart vs. Jirav: Final Comparison

RunSmart and Jirav both help businesses move beyond historical accounting and spreadsheets.

But they start from different places.

Jirav begins with structured FP&A.

Its strengths include:

• Driver-based financial models
• Department planning
• Collaborative budgets
• Workforce forecasting
• Financial statements
• Scenarios
• Long-range planning
• Accounting-firm advisory workflows

RunSmart begins with financial intelligence.

Its strengths include:

• Automated statistical forecasting
• Broader automatic model selection
• Financial health
• Emerging risks
• SaaS subscription intelligence
• Historical, live, and forecast analysis
• Workforce planning
• Portfolio prioritization

For a finance organization that wants to control the model and coordinate planning across departments, Jirav may be the stronger fit.

For a founder, advisor, or smaller finance organization that wants more of the forecasting methodology handled automatically, RunSmart may be the stronger fit.

For SaaS businesses using Stripe and QuickBooks Online, RunSmart adds another specialized workflow:

Historical subscription performance → Live current activity → Future subscription forecasts → Company-wide financial outcomes

The decision ultimately comes down to how financial planning is managed.

If you want:

A structured FP&A platform for building, managing, and collaborating around sophisticated financial plans

Jirav is designed around that process.

If you want:

A financial intelligence platform that automatically analyzes financial behavior, establishes forecasts, evaluates health and risk, and helps you understand what may happen next

RunSmart is designed around that process.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the main difference between RunSmart and Jirav?

Jirav is a structured FP&A platform focused on budgeting, driver-based financial modeling, workforce planning, departmental planning, scenarios, dashboards, and accounting-firm advisory workflows.

RunSmart focuses more heavily on automated statistical forecasting, financial-health analysis, emerging-risk detection, SaaS subscription intelligence, workforce planning, and portfolio-level financial intelligence.

Does Jirav automatically create forecasts?

Yes.

Jirav's Auto-Forecast uses historical financial data to create Income Statement forecasts.

When enough history exists, Jirav uses a linear trend with seasonality and can fall back to simpler approaches such as linear trend without seasonality or a simple average when data is sparse.

How is RunSmart's automated forecasting different from Jirav's?

Jirav provides an intelligent Auto-Forecast based primarily on historical trend and seasonality and then allows finance users to customize or replace those forecasts with drivers and manual assumptions.

RunSmart evaluates a broader set of statistical forecasting methods and historical predictive performance to select an appropriate baseline for individual financial series.

Does RunSmart require 24 months of financial history?

RunSmart requires at least 24 months of financial history for automated forecasting.

Businesses with less history can still use applicable non-forecasting capabilities such as historical analysis, live Stripe subscription analytics, SaaS KPIs, financial-health analysis, budgeting, workforce planning, and reporting depending on their plan.

How much history does Jirav need for Auto-Forecast?

Jirav recommends at least two full years of usable data for trend analysis and three full years for forecasting seasonality.

Does Jirav provide workforce planning?

Yes.

Jirav provides extensive workforce-planning functionality including existing staff, planned hires, terminations, salary increases, payroll taxes, benefits, hourly employees, and payroll allocations.

Does RunSmart provide workforce planning?

Yes.

RunSmart includes a dedicated Workforce Planner that allows compensation, taxes, benefits, raises, and hiring assumptions to be mapped directly into forecasted COGS and operating-expense accounts.

Does Jirav support long-range forecasting?

Yes.

Jirav Enterprise supports 5+ year financial planning.

RunSmart Pro supports automated financial forecasting up to five years.

Does RunSmart provide live Stripe analytics?

Yes.

RunSmart's Live Subscription Performance view provides current measures such as:

• MRR
• ARR
• Active Customers
• ARPA

along with month-to-date movements such as:

• New MRR
• Reactivation MRR
• Expansion MRR
• Contraction MRR
• Churned MRR
• Net New MRR

Which platform is better for SaaS companies?

Both can support SaaS planning.

Jirav allows finance teams to build SaaS models through custom tables, drivers, operational metrics, ACV-based revenue planning, deferred-revenue logic, and other FP&A tools.

RunSmart provides a more purpose-built Stripe and QuickBooks Online workflow that connects historical, live, and forecast subscription intelligence directly to company-wide financial forecasts.

Which platform is better for accounting firms?

Jirav is particularly strong for accounting firms that want separate FP&A environments for clients, structured budgeting, driver-based planning, and workforce forecasting.

RunSmart is particularly strong for accounting firms that want automated forecasting, financial-health analysis, emerging-risk detection, SaaS intelligence, and portfolio-level prioritization.

Which platform has broader accounting integrations?

Jirav.

Jirav supports accounting systems including QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop, Sage Intacct, NetSuite, Xero, and Excel-based workflows.

RunSmart currently centers its financial intelligence around QuickBooks Online.

How much does RunSmart cost?

RunSmart Standard costs $99 per month.

Premium costs $299 per month.

Pro costs $499 per month for one project.

For Pro multi-project purchases, bundles of 5, 10, 15, 20, or additional multiples of five cost $249 per project per month.

Annual billing receives a 10% discount.

How much does Jirav cost?

Jirav currently publishes:

• Starter at $10,000 per year
• Pro at $15,000 per year
• Enterprise at custom pricing

Exact pricing and available features can depend on the selected package and planning requirements.

Which platform is better for businesses without an FP&A team?

RunSmart may be the better fit when the business wants more of the forecasting methodology and financial interpretation automated.

Jirav may be the better fit when an internal finance team or outside advisor wants greater control over driver-based models, departments, budgets, scenarios, and workforce planning.

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