Free Cash Flow: The First KPI You Need to Understand Before You Automate Anything

Let’s talk about the lifeblood of any business: cash. Not “we’re making sales” cash. Not “our net income looks healthy” cash. We’re talking about free cash flow—the money that’s truly yours to use.

Free cash flow (FCF) is what’s left over after you’ve paid all the bills to keep the lights on and the wheels turning—rent, salaries, suppliers, everything. In accounting speak:

FCF = Operating Cash Flow - Capital Expenditures

Translation? It’s the money you can actually deploy: to grow, to invest, to shore up the rainy day fund.

Here’s the catch: you can’t automate your way out of a cash flow crisis. If you’re burning through cash faster than you’re bringing it in, automation becomes a luxury you can’t afford. It’s like installing a fancy irrigation system in a field that hasn’t seen rain in a year.

At Beor, we understand that free cash flow is the scoreboard. That’s why we start every client conversation here—before we touch a single workflow.

We help you understand your current FCF:

• Where it’s coming from

• Where it’s leaking out

• How it’s truly performing

Because you can’t improve what you don’t measure. And you definitely can’t automate what you don’t understand.

Once we know you’re in the black—or help you get there—that’s when we introduce automation. Not as a band-aid, but as a tool for multiplication:

• Freeing up working capital

• Streamlining processes that keep your cash flow positive

• Giving you real-time visibility so you’re never guessing where the money’s going

Free cash flow is the raw material of every big idea you’ll ever have. At Beor, we believe in making it flow—then making it work harder through smart automation.

Ready to start? Let’s talk.