Your executive dashboard, every number traced to its source.

ARR, pipeline coverage, net revenue retention, and gross margin in one view, reconciled across billing, CRM, and accounting, so the board sees the same numbers you do.

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What’s in a executive dashboard?

What’s in a executive dashboard?

An executive dashboard is the single governed view of the whole business: revenue, pipeline, retention, and margin, reconciled across billing, CRM, and accounting. The version worth putting in front of the board reconciles each number to its source system, so ARR from billing, pipeline from the CRM, and margin from accounting all tell the same story.

Every department reports its own version of the business. Finance has one ARR, sales has another pipeline number, and CS reports retention differently than billing does. When ARR, pipeline coverage, NRR, and gross margin come from one set of governed definitions, the board deck is evidence, not assembly.

Who it’s forCEOs, founders, and board members who need the full picture in one place.

CadenceRefreshed daily; reviewed in the weekly exec sync and before board prep.

Built fromStripe, Salesforce, Hubspot, Quickbooks

§ How it works

Describe your dashboard. Fi builds it.

Fi is the AI agent inside Definite. Tell it what you’re trying to understand, and it connects your sources, defines the metrics, and builds the dashboard. One conversation, not a project.

You
I need one screen with the whole picture: ARR, pipeline coverage, retention, and margin, with every number coming from the same set of definitions.
✦ Fi
Here's your executive dashboard, on your Stripe, Salesforce, Hubspot and Quickbooks data.
Here’s what’s in it

The top row leads with the 4 numbers that matter most: ARR, Pipeline coverage, Net revenue retention, Gross margin. Each shows a delta versus the prior period so you can see direction at a glance. Below that, 2 trend charts (ARR over time, Net revenue retention trend) show how the headline numbers have moved over time. A breakdown (Revenue by product) splits the metric by dimension so you can see what's driving the total. A detail table (Business health) rounds it out with the secondary metrics and their deltas. Every number is computed from the exact formulas shown in the metric table below. Composites are derived from their components, not pasted in, so the KPI tiles, breakdowns, and totals all reconcile to each other.

Illustrative data

ARR

$15.45M▲ 6.8%
Data ▾
PeriodARR
Jan$6.95M
Feb$7.39M
Mar$7.91M
Apr$8.56M
May$9.19M
Jun$10.00M
Jul$10.65M
Aug$11.50M
Sep$12.33M
Oct$13.24M
Nov$14.47M
Dec$15.45M

Pipeline coverage

7.3×▼ 10.2%
Data ▾
PeriodPipeline Coverage
Jan8.6×
Feb8.2×
Mar8.2×
Apr8.1×
May8.6×
Jun7.6×
Jul7.6×
Aug8.2×
Sep8.6×
Oct7.3×
Nov8.1×
Dec7.3×

Net revenue retention

100.9%▼ 1.0%
Data ▾
PeriodNet Revenue Retention
Jan99.9%
Feb100.3%
Mar100.0%
Apr100.5%
May100.6%
Jun100.9%
Jul100.0%
Aug101.0%
Sep100.5%
Oct100.6%
Nov101.9%
Dec100.9%

Gross margin

83.0%▲ 3.5%
Data ▾
PeriodGross Margin
Jan81.4%
Feb79.2%
Mar80.4%
Apr81.6%
May81.0%
Jun80.4%
Jul79.3%
Aug79.8%
Sep76.9%
Oct79.5%
Nov80.2%
Dec83.0%

ARR over time

6,000,000 8,000,000 10,000,000 12,000,000 14,000,000 16,000,000 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Data ▾
PeriodARR
Jan$6.95M
Feb$7.39M
Mar$7.91M
Apr$8.56M
May$9.19M
Jun$10.00M
Jul$10.65M
Aug$11.50M
Sep$12.33M
Oct$13.24M
Nov$14.47M
Dec$15.45M

Revenue by product

Platform Add-ons Services 100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000 500,000
Data ▾
ProductGross Revenue
Platform$312K
Add-ons$541K
Services$366K

Net revenue retention trend

0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Data ▾
PeriodNet Revenue Retention
Jan99.9%
Feb100.3%
Mar100.0%
Apr100.5%
May100.6%
Jun100.9%
Jul100.0%
Aug101.0%
Sep100.5%
Oct100.6%
Nov101.9%
Dec100.9%

Business health

LTV : CAC13.9×▼ 1.5%
Open Pipeline$9.01M▼ 6.6%
Customers2.6K▲ 6.3%
✦ Fi
Anything else I can do for you?
You
Why did NRR drop last quarter when ARR was still growing?What is pipeline coverage against next quarter's target?Show me the three segments driving the most ARR growth.What would ARR look like if churn stays at this rate for the next two quarters?Break gross margin out by product line.Trace this month's ARR back to the billing subscriptions.Add a revenue waterfall showing new, expansion, contraction, and churn MRR.Break ARR by segment so I can see where the growth is coming from.Show me LTV:CAC alongside retention to see if growth is efficient.
  • Why did NRR drop last quarter when ARR was still growing?
  • What is pipeline coverage against next quarter's target?
  • Show me the three segments driving the most ARR growth.
  • What would ARR look like if churn stays at this rate for the next two quarters?
  • Break gross margin out by product line.
  • Trace this month's ARR back to the billing subscriptions.
  • Add a revenue waterfall showing new, expansion, contraction, and churn MRR.
  • Break ARR by segment so I can see where the growth is coming from.
  • Show me LTV:CAC alongside retention to see if growth is efficient.
§ Why the numbers tie out

Every metric traces back to your systems

This is the part a BI tool can’t fake. Each metric is defined once, in your warehouse, from a specific object in a specific source. Change the definition in one place and every tile, report, and answer moves with it. So the number on the screen is the number in the source.

SubscriptionARRNet Revenue RetentionLTV : CACCustomers
Balance Transaction (Ledger)Gross MarginGross RevenueLTV : CAC
InvoiceGross MarginGross RevenueLTV : CAC
PaymentGross MarginLTV : CAC
CustomerLTV : CACCustomers
DealPipeline CoverageOpen Pipeline
DealPipeline CoverageOpen Pipeline
Income Statement (Profit & Loss)Gross MarginGross RevenueLTV : CAC
General LedgerGross MarginLTV : CAC
MetricWhat it measuresHow it's calculatedSources
ARRYour monthly recurring revenue annualized, the figure a board or investor anchors on.MRR × 12Stripe
Pipeline CoverageThe early-warning gauge on the forecast: how many times your open pipeline covers the quota you have to hit.Open Pipeline ÷ QuotaSalesforce, Hubspot
Net Revenue RetentionThe clearest read on whether the product keeps earning its price: how much revenue this year's cohort of customers is worth versus last year, after expansion, contraction, and churn net out.(prior MRR + Expansion MRR − Contraction MRR − Churned MRR) ÷ prior MRRStripe
Gross MarginThe share of net revenue left after the direct cost of delivering the product, the ceiling on how efficiently the business can grow.(Net Revenue − COGS) ÷ Net RevenueStripe, Quickbooks
LTV : CACThe payback test on growth spend. Lifetime value divided by acquisition cost.LTV ÷ CACStripe, Quickbooks
CustomersThe count of active paying customers at the end of the month, after new logos and churn.prior Customers + New Customers − Churned CustomersStripe
§ Then do something about it

Have our agent watch for you

A executive dashboard tells you what happened, and Fi tells you why. The last step is not having to remember to check. Point Definite at the one number you can’t afford to miss, and it watches that number for you off the same definitions as your dashboard. When it moves, you hear about it before the next review instead of during it. One metric, one action, always reversible.

Autonomous agent · watch churn
Watch
A metric you choose
net revenue churn
Judge
One condition
> 5% week-over-week
Act
One action
alert #revenue + open doc
◄──── then waits · cooldown 24h before it can act again ────
Scoped to a single metric and a single action. You arm it; you can disarm it anytime.
§ The data that powers it

Built from whatever you already run on

Connect the systems you already use. Any source of these types works, and you don’t move data into a warehouse, because Definite is the warehouse.

No warehouse to stand up or connect. See how the platform models your data →

§ Get started

Build your executive dashboard

From signup to a working dashboard in one sitting. No data team required.

01

Sign up

Free to start. No credit card, no infrastructure to set up.

Create your account
02

Connect your sources

Stripe, your CRM, accounting. Definite syncs and models them automatically.

03

Decide your metrics

Pick the numbers that matter or let Fi propose them from your data. Every metric gets one definition, governed in one place.

04

Ask Fi to build it

Describe what you need in plain language. Fi builds the dashboard, and you refine by asking follow-ups.

§ FAQ

Common questions

Usually because each department defines its metrics differently. Finance counts ARR from billing, sales counts it from booked deals, and CS derives retention from a different date cutoff. The reconciliation map above shows which system each metric comes from, so there is one definition of ARR, one NRR, and one gross margin, modeled in your warehouse.
Billing (Stripe) for ARR and revenue, CRM (Salesforce or HubSpot) for pipeline and deals, and accounting (QuickBooks) for margin and expenses. Definite syncs and models all of them, then reconciles across sources.
A KPI dashboard tracks operational metrics for a single function. An executive dashboard reconciles the top-line metrics across functions — revenue from billing, pipeline from the CRM, retention from subscriptions, margin from accounting — so a CEO sees the whole business, not one team's view of it.
It is a live ECharts dashboard running on a deterministic synthetic dataset, labeled illustrative. ARR is computed from MRR, NRR from the retention formula, each by the metric table. Connect your systems and Fi builds the same view from your data.
A BI tool visualizes whatever data an analyst assembled. This is the output of a governed system: billing, CRM, and accounting are synced, the definitions are modeled once, and the dashboard is evidence that every number traces to its source. The difference matters when the board asks where a number came from.
Tell Fi what you need, the way the prompt above reads. Fi connects billing, CRM, and accounting, proposes the executive metrics, and you refine by asking follow-ups. The first version ships without a slide deck assembly.

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