goagentdata

A wrong number looks exactly like a right one.

A free, vendor-neutral guide for founders, CEOs, growth leads and data people building with AI: what to measure and record at your stage, before the history you need is gone.

AI makes it easy to get answers. On its own, it will not tell you when the answer is wrong, or when a better one was within reach.

Check your setup in 2 minutes Pick your stage

Data team? Start with the guide.Growth lead? See the Growing stage.

Every check is open to read. No vendor pays for placement.

Where do you want to start?

  • The five steps

    Where a number goes wrong, from the problem to reading it, with a guardrail and a check for each step.

  • Stage 1

    Before launch

    Nobody pays yet. Record now what you cannot rebuild later.

  • Stage 2

    First paying customers

    You still know every customer. Learn why they stay or leave.

  • Stage 3

    Growing

    A first data person, or about to hire one. Get every team on the same numbers.

Check your setup in 2 minutes

Say where you are, then answer four questions. Not sure counts as No.

  1. 1Where are you?

    Open your stage: Before launchFirst paying customersGrowing

  2. 2Can you name the decision your next piece of data work will change, and who makes it?

    Choose the problem. The check: Finish this sentence: if the answer is X we do A, and if it is Y we do B. Read the step

  3. 3If a customer changed plan last month, can you see both the old plan and the date it changed?

    Collect what you need. The check: Next to each thing you collect, write the question or number it serves now or in the coming months. Anything with no answer is collecting for its own sake. Then ask to see one customer's old plan and the date it changed. Read the step

  4. 4If your headline number fell 20% tomorrow, would someone do something different this week?

    Choose the number. The check: Ask which decision changes if this number moves, then ask two people to define it. If the answers differ, you have two numbers. Read the step

  5. 5Are test and internal accounts left out of your headline number?

    Not sure? The draft check in step 4 shows how to count them.

    Count it right. The check: Reproduce one number a second way, such as the finance total, then count the test accounts inside it. There should be none. Read the step

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