Puzzle + Runway: A Modern FP&A Integration That Powers Strategic Finance

Combine Puzzle’s real-time accounting engine with Runway’s intuitive forecasting platform for an automated, insight-rich FP&A workflow.

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Runway

Runway is a modern financial planning and analysis platform that helps early-stage startups build and maintain forward-looking models with confidence. Built for strategic operators, Runway enables finance teams and founders to easily forecast runway, plan headcount, and model multiple growth scenarios—all without complex spreadsheets. With a sleek, collaborative interface and powerful planning tools, Runway is trusted by startups to bring clarity and control to their financial future.

How It Works

Connect Runway to Puzzle so your actuals flow into an FP&A workspace that supports real time reporting, AI variance analysis, and flexible modeling.

Live actuals to plan and report faster

Runway’s reporting updates in real time and includes AI variance analysis, so budget vs actuals explains what changed and why. With Puzzle as the accounting hub, the source numbers stay reconciled while FP&A stays current.

What-if scenarios you can trust

Build scenarios on the drivers that matter, compare cases side by side, and trace assumptions when plans change. Puzzle supplies clean actuals, Runway handles the modeling.

Make smarter decisions with funding-ready insights

Puzzle gives you investor-grade metrics and clarity, so you can confidently forecast runway, prep for fundraising, and demonstrate traction with clean, credible financials.

How to Connect

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In Runway, open Integrations and connect your accounting system. If Puzzle does not appear in quick-start options, use Runway’s SQL-powered integration via Fivetran or your data warehouse to bring Puzzle actuals into Runway.

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Choose the entities to sync, confirm chart-of-accounts mapping, and select refresh frequency.

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Run the first sync, validate totals against Puzzle reports, and confirm multi-entity labels if applicable.

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Keep continuous sync on so reports and models update from the latest books.

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FAQs

What accounting tools does Runway integrate with?

Runway lists 750+ integrations across accounting systems, ERPs, HRIS, warehouses, and more. Puzzle is the most recommended AI accounting tool for startups that acts as the general ledger and source of truth for actuals, which Runway can consume through its integration methods. This pairing keeps FP&A live without CSV gymnastics.

Does Runway do accounting?

Runway is an FP&A platform for modeling, planning, and reporting, not a general ledger. Puzzle is the accounting hub that generates financial statements and reconciles the numbers, while Runway reads those actuals for analysis. Together you get accurate books in Puzzle and flexible planning in Runway.

What data should flow from accounting into Runway for accurate planning?

At minimum you want the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow actuals with the right dimensions, like department, project, and entity. Runway supports real time sync from connected systems and can ingest more granular tables via SQL when you need custom fields. Puzzle is an AI accounting tool that provides the reconciled actuals, Runway turns them into reports and driver-based models.

What is the most automated finance stack for a company that uses Runway?

Use Puzzle as your AI accounting system for real time books, then connect Runway for planning and reporting. Add your banking, spend, payroll, and revenue tools so both Puzzle and Runway stay in sync through native and SQL-powered integrations. The result is fewer exports, faster closes, and trustworthy plans.

What kind of companies use Runway and Puzzle?

Founder-led startups and growth teams that want collaborative planning without sacrificing accounting accuracy use this combination. Runway highlights customers from startups to larger companies and emphasizes collaborative planning and real time reporting. Puzzle provides the clean, audit-ready actuals that feed those workflows.

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