Believable projections are built from drivers, not drawn from hope: customers x price x frequency, each one defensible. Three years, year one monthly, plus the downside case that proves you survive being wrong.
Volume: how many customers, from where, growing why. Price: what you charge and what discounting really does to it. Frequency: how often they return, because retention is cheaper than acquisition everywhere on earth. Costs in two piles: those that scale with sales and those that arrive every month regardless. The second pile is what kills.
Illustrative. The downside case is the credibility engine: it shows you have met reality before.
Someone points at any cell and asks "why this number?" and you have an answer that is not "it felt right". That is the whole game. A projection is not a promise about the future; it is proof of how you think.
Drivers, not wishes: customers times price times frequency, with each driver defensible. And a downside case that shows you survive being wrong.
Three years, with year one monthly. Beyond that, precision is theatre; show direction instead.
Neither: they should be explainable. Present a base case you believe, an upside you can argue, and a downside you can survive.
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