Runway

Runway is where you work month by month: set a plan, cap spending in four buckets (a kakeibo-style split), and log transactions against the active month. Open it from the app navigation at /runway.

This is different from projection runway—the number of months until a balance threshold in Projections. Runway here means operational monthly discipline; projections remain your strategic burn and scenario model.

Moving between months

Use the previous and next controls beside the month title, or change the URL query parameters year and month.
With the page focused (not typing in a field), ← and → move to the previous or next month.

Pilfer creates or loads a month plan for the team (or your personal workspace) and selected calendar month when you use Runway.

Month plan

Each month has:

Intent — A title and short description for what you are prioritizing this month (saved as you type).
Expected income — Shown from incoming lines attached to this month (see Recurs below).
Fixed costs — Shown from outgoing lines attached to this month.
Savings goal — An amount you can edit on the plan card.

To populate income and fixed costs from recurring templates, apply a recur to this month (available from Runway header actions when you have recurs set up). Those lines drive the totals on the plan cards.

Four-bucket budgets

Spending for the month is grouped into four buckets—Needs, Wants, Culture, and Unexpected—each with a cap and running spent total from logged transactions. Edit a cap to match how you want to allocate the month. The cards show progress and simple status (for example when you are close to or over a cap).

The home dashboard can show a compact Budget Overview for the current month using the same buckets.

Logging transactions

Use Log transaction to record spend for the selected month:

Amount and date (when it occurred).
Bucket — Needs, Wants, Culture, or Unexpected.
Category — Required for organization and reporting.

Optional details include merchant, description, note, emotion tag, and links to a project, space, scout, or goal so spend stays tied to how you already structure work in Pilfer.

Goals

The Runway page includes a goals area for longer-horizon targets alongside the monthly view. Use it to keep monthly logging aligned with what you are saving or building toward.

Recurs — Build recurring income and expense templates, then apply them to a month plan in Runway.
Projections — Model account balance over time and runway as a forecast metric (months until a threshold).