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Playbooks & methods Guide 9 min read

Reverse-engineering your board target

A practical playbook for planning season

Planning season is changing. What used to be a static spreadsheet ritual is becoming a continuous operating system for growth.

Guillaume Jacquet
Guillaume Jacquet CEO & co-founder · Oct 6, 2025

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And the annual planning grind is back. Built with the Leanscale experts, this guide shows how to turn a board net-ARR goal into a working plan that’s ambitious, realistic for your team’s capacity, and aligned with your CFO’s guardrails. Time to end spreadsheet misery!

The 5 key sections of the guide

  • Unpacking the growth goal
  • Top-down planning
  • Bottom-up planning
  • Budget and unit economics guardrails
  • Scenario modelling and reporting to plan
Boards rarely hand you the map. They set a macro growth expectation and expect leadership to reverse-engineer the path. That's why, together with Leanscale, we’re sharing a practical path to go from board target to working plan without vanishing into spreadsheet hell.


Planning playbook

Reverse-engineer your board target (without losing your mind)

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