KPI system
Revenue first. Fourteen indicators, each with a definition and the source it is measured from. A value appears only when it has been measured; the strip never shows a zero that was not counted.
Primary
- Revenue · primary
- not yet measured
Secondary
- Pipeline
- not yet measured
- Leads
- not yet measured
- Qualified opportunities
- not yet measured
- Conversion
- not yet measured
- Churn
- not yet measured
- Retention
- not yet measured
- Gross margin
- not yet measured
- Time saved
- not yet measured
- Implementation speed
- not yet measured
Derived
- MRR
- not yet measured
- ARR
- not yet measured
- CAC
- not yet measured
- Payback period
- not yet measured
Definitions
| KPI | Rank | Unit | Definition | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | primary | CAD | Cash invoiced to external customers for software or software-enabled service in the period. The primary KPI; every other number exists to explain this one. | Invoice ledger of the entity that bills the customer. |
| MRR | derived | CAD | Monthly recurring revenue from active subscriptions at period end. Setup and implementation fees excluded. | Billing system. |
| ARR | derived | CAD | MRR × 12. | Derived from MRR. |
| Pipeline | secondary | CAD | Sum of the annual value of qualified opportunities with a named decision maker and a stated budget. | Customer evidence log (content/cluster/evidence.ts). |
| Leads | secondary | count | Inbound or outbound contacts with a real business in a candidate vertical in the period. | Customer evidence log. |
| Qualified opportunities | secondary | count | Leads with a stated pain, a named decision maker, a budget and an urgency other than "none". | Customer evidence log. |
| Conversion | secondary | % | Qualified opportunities that became a signed pilot or a paying customer, divided by qualified opportunities. | Customer evidence log. |
| Churn | secondary | % | Paying customers lost in the period divided by paying customers at period start. | Billing system. |
| Retention | secondary | % | 100 − churn, measured on the same cohort. | Derived from churn. |
| Gross margin | secondary | % | (Revenue − cost of delivering it: hosting, AI inference, support labour, implementation labour) ÷ revenue. | Ledger plus infrastructure invoices. |
| Time saved | secondary | hours | Hours per month a customer no longer spends on the workflow the product replaced, measured with the customer, not estimated for them. | Customer measurement during pilot. |
| Implementation speed | secondary | days | Calendar days from signed pilot to first real job processed through the software. | Pilot log. |
| CAC | derived | CAD | Sales and marketing cost in the period ÷ customers won in the period. | Ledger. |
| Payback period | derived | months | CAC ÷ (MRR per customer × gross margin). | Derived. |