# Can I afford it?

> Whether a purchase or a hire leaves enough cash, and what that answer assumes.

Section: Budgets and forecasting · Canonical: https://intubu.intuitivecapital-dai.com/docs/affordability

Advisor → Can I Afford It?

Enter an amount and whether it is one-off or recurring. The answer runs it through a cash scenario and compares the low point against your cash floor — the balance below which you would rather not go, set in settings and defaulting to $5,000.

**Three verdicts:**
- **Affordable** — cash stays above the floor throughout.
- **Tight** — cash dips below the floor but stays positive.
- **Not affordable** — cash goes negative, and the month it happens is named.

Every answer lists the assumptions it used and shows the month cash bottoms out, because "yes" without a floor and a date is not advice.