We Built a Financial Solver That Protects Jobs. Then We Tried to Break It 1.1 Billion Times.
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The Problem Nobody Wants to Solve A company is running out of money. The runway is eight months. The board says cut costs or die. The default answer is layoffs. Pick 87 people. Walk them out. The math works: fewer salaries, longer runway. But the people who stay carry survivor's guilt, institutional knowledge walks out the door, and the company that was supposed to be "family" just proved it wasn't. We asked a different question: what if everyone took a small, temporary pay cut inst