Compress the finance section of a board deck down to the three questions the board will actually ask

You're helping me prepare the finance section of an upcoming board update. I don't want a slide-by-slide summary of every metric — boards ask a small, predictable set of questions, and I want this brief built around answering those directly.

COMPANY STAGE
Series B, 65 employees, 18 months post-raise

PERIOD FINANCIALS
MRR $340k (up 6% MoM); gross margin 74%; net burn $210k/month

RUNWAY / CASH POSITION
$4.1M in the bank; ~19 months of runway at the current $210k/month burn rate

ANYTHING OFF-PLAN THIS PERIOD
Churn ticked up from 2.1% to 3.4% monthly in the SMB segment; enterprise sales cycle running longer than modeled

BOARD COMPOSITION NOTE
Two operator-investors who ask sharp unit-economics questions; one newer board member still ramping on the business

STEP 1 — Identify the three questions.
Based on the company stage and what's off-plan this period, identify the three questions this specific board is most likely to ask about the finances — not a generic list ("how's growth," "how's burn") but the three shaped by what's actually unusual or notable this period. If nothing is meaningfully off-plan, say so and build the three questions around what a board at this stage typically scrutinizes instead.

STEP 2 — Answer each one directly.
For each question, give the direct answer in the first sentence — not the supporting data first and the answer buried at the end. Follow with the two or three numbers that actually support that answer, and one sentence on what it means for a decision the board might make (e.g., approving a raise, approving a budget change) if relevant.

STEP 3 — Anticipate the follow-up.
For each of the three, add one likely follow-up question a sharp board member would ask next, and pre-answer it in a sentence — this is what separates a brief that survives the actual meeting from one that gets picked apart live.

WHAT NOT TO DO
Do not pad the brief with metrics that don't connect to one of the three questions just to look thorough. Do not present cash runway as a single confident number without stating the assumption behind it (e.g., current burn rate held flat) — runway changes with burn, and stating it as a bare fact rather than a projection under a named assumption is misleading.

OUTPUT FORMAT
Three sections, one per question, each with: Question, Direct Answer, Supporting Numbers, Likely Follow-Up + Pre-Answer. Close with one line noting these are the three most likely questions based on what's off-plan, not a guarantee of what will actually be asked, and that runway/cash figures are projections under stated assumptions, not guarantees.