How Superhuman replaced spreadsheet chaos with a scalable financial system

Every budgeting cycle required slicing and dicing financial models across multiple spreadsheet tabs, customizing versions for different departments, and carefully safeguarding sensitive data (like salaries). Each team would then return their version, leaving Finance to manually reassemble the data to gain a complete picture of the business. It was an exhausting, time-consuming process.

Runway integrated their general ledger, HRIS, and other data sources into a single platform. Now, Finance can securely share customized insights with each department without rebuilding spreadsheets—ensuring both transparency and confidentiality.

Superhuman’s finance workflows couldn’t keep up with the company’s growth. Critical processes—like headcount planning, budgeting, and growth forecasting—were painfully slow, requiring hours of manual work just to answer basic financial questions.

With Runway, Andrew and his team now build financial models in seconds. Complex scenario planning—once a major bottleneck—is now fast, collaborative, and intuitive. The finance team can finally respond instantly to inquiries from executives—providing detailed answers and insights quickly.

Finance used to feel siloed. Departments would rely on Finance for insights, but had no direct (or easy) way to engage with financial data themselves.

Runway enabled self-serve financial planning. Suddenly, department heads—from Sales to Marketing to Operations—could directly interact with real-time data, model out scenarios, and align their plans with the base case or forecast set by Finance.