Your financial dashboard, customized to your business.

Revenue, margin, burn, and runway in one view, reconciled from Stripe, QuickBooks, and the bank, so the number you present ties out.

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What’s in a financial dashboard?

What’s in a financial dashboard?

A financial dashboard is the single governed view of a company's financial health: recurring revenue and how it's moving, net revenue after refunds, gross margin, monthly burn, and the runway that follows from cash and burn. The version that's worth anything reconciles back to the source systems, so the number on the screen is the number in the bank.

Most finance dashboards drift because each metric is re-derived in a BI tool, disconnected from the source. When MRR lives in one definition modeled on Stripe and QuickBooks, the board number and the close number are the same number, and you catch the drift before close instead of explaining it after.

Who it’s forCFOs, finance leads, and founders who own the board number.

CadenceRefreshed daily; reviewed before monthly close and board prep.

Built fromStripe, Quickbooks, Plaid

§ 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
Board prep is coming up. I need a clean read on revenue, margin, burn, and runway that ties out to the bank, not a number I have to caveat.
✦ Fi
Here's your financial dashboard, on your Stripe, Quickbooks and Plaid data.
Here’s what’s in it

The top row leads with the 4 numbers that matter most: MRR, Net revenue, Monthly burn, Runway. Each shows a delta versus the prior period so you can see direction at a glance. Below that, 2 trend charts (MRR over time, Net new MRR by movement) show how the headline numbers have moved over time. A breakdown (Net revenue by product) splits the metric by dimension so you can see what's driving the total. A detail table (Margin & retention) 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

MRR

$1.28M▲ 7.4%
Data ▾
PeriodMRR
Jan$576K
Feb$611K
Mar$653K
Apr$706K
May$759K
Jun$823K
Jul$889K
Aug$961K
Sep$1.04M
Oct$1.12M
Nov$1.19M
Dec$1.28M

Net revenue

$1.11M▲ 10.3%
Data ▾
PeriodNet Revenue
Jan$510K
Feb$629K
Mar$651K
Apr$675K
May$785K
Jun$791K
Jul$851K
Aug$1.03M
Sep$916K
Oct$954K
Nov$1.00M
Dec$1.11M

Monthly burn

$164K▲ 29.4%
Data ▾
PeriodMonthly Burn
Jan$191K
Feb$187K
Mar$183K
Apr$150K
May$162K
Jun$157K
Jul$166K
Aug$152K
Sep$165K
Oct$129K
Nov$127K
Dec$164K

Runway

16 mo▼ 28.2%
Data ▾
PeriodRunway (months)
Jan21
Feb21
Mar21
Apr25
May22
Jun22
Jul20
Aug21
Sep18
Oct23
Nov22
Dec16

MRR over time

500,000 600,000 700,000 800,000 900,000 1,000,000 1,100,000 1,200,000 1,300,000 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Data ▾
PeriodMRR
Jan$576K
Feb$611K
Mar$653K
Apr$706K
May$759K
Jun$823K
Jul$889K
Aug$961K
Sep$1.04M
Oct$1.12M
Nov$1.19M
Dec$1.28M

Net revenue by product

Platform Add-ons Services 0 100,000 200,000 300,000
Data ▾
ProductNet Revenue
Platform$388K
Add-ons$341K
Services$377K

Net new MRR by movement

0 30,000 60,000 90,000 120,000 150,000 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec New MRR Expansion MRR Contraction MRR Churned MRR
Data ▾
PeriodNew MRRExpansion MRRContraction MRRChurned MRR
Jan$41K$12K$6K$11K
Feb$37K$14K$4K$12K
Mar$38K$19K$5K$10K
Apr$51K$17K$5K$11K
May$50K$22K$6K$13K
Jun$58K$23K$6K$11K
Jul$62K$24K$5K$14K
Aug$63K$28K$4K$15K
Sep$66K$28K$5K$12K
Oct$68K$28K$5K$12K
Nov$66K$29K$5K$12K
Dec$78K$29K$5K$14K

Margin & retention

Gross Margin80.0%▲ 1.1%
Net Revenue Retention100.8%▼ 0.2%
Gross Revenue Retention98.4%▼ 0.1%
✦ Fi
Anything else I can do for you?
You
Why did net new MRR drop last month?Which product line is carrying margin, and which is dragging it?Show me the customers behind the contraction in March.What's runway if burn holds at the trailing three-month average?Break revenue out by region instead of product.Trace this month's net revenue back to the Stripe payouts.Add net revenue retention by segment and flag anything under 100%.Show me burn excluding one-time annual prepayments.Compare this quarter's runway to last quarter at the same cash balance.
  • Why did net new MRR drop last month?
  • Which product line is carrying margin, and which is dragging it?
  • Show me the customers behind the contraction in March.
  • What's runway if burn holds at the trailing three-month average?
  • Break revenue out by region instead of product.
  • Trace this month's net revenue back to the Stripe payouts.
  • Add net revenue retention by segment and flag anything under 100%.
  • Show me burn excluding one-time annual prepayments.
  • Compare this quarter's runway to last quarter at the same cash balance.
§ 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.

SubscriptionMRRNet New MRRNet Revenue RetentionGross Revenue Retention
Balance Transaction (Ledger)Net RevenueGross Margin
InvoiceNet RevenueGross Margin
PaymentNet RevenueGross Margin
PayoutRunway (months)
Income Statement (Profit & Loss)Net RevenueGross Margin
Cash FlowMonthly BurnRunway (months)
General LedgerMonthly BurnRunway (months)Gross Margin
Balance SheetRunway (months)
BalanceRunway (months)
MetricWhat it measuresHow it's calculatedSources
MRRThe recurring revenue you're collecting this month, normalized to a monthly figure across every plan and billing cycle.prior MRR + Net New MRRStripe
Net RevenueRevenue you actually keep after refunds and credits, not what you originally billed.Gross Revenue − Refunds & CreditsStripe, Quickbooks
Runway (months)The number that sets the deadline on every plan: how many months of cash you have left at the current burn rate.Cash Balance ÷ Monthly BurnQuickbooks, Stripe, Plaid
Net New MRRHow much your recurring revenue actually grew this month after new business, expansion, contraction, and churn net out, the single number that says whether the base is compounding.New MRR + Expansion MRR − Contraction MRR − Churned 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
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 Revenue RetentionThe share of recurring revenue you'd retain with zero expansion, the floor under the base once upsell is stripped out.(prior MRR − Contraction MRR − Churned MRR) ÷ prior MRRStripe
§ Then do something about it

Have our agent watch for you

A financial 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 financial 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 tool counts differently. Stripe's MRR includes one-time charges your accountant excludes; QuickBooks recognizes revenue on a different date than Stripe bills it. The reconciliation map above shows which object each metric comes from, so there's one definition and one number, modeled in your warehouse instead of re-derived in a BI tool.
Billing (Stripe) for recurring revenue and payouts, your accounting system (QuickBooks) for the P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow, and your bank (via Plaid) for the cash balance that anchors runway. Definite syncs and models all three, then ties them together.
A BI tool gives you charts. It assumes the data underneath is already clean, modeled, and reconciled. The value here is the layer that makes the dashboard trustworthy: Stripe, QuickBooks, and the bank synced and governed into one definition of MRR, margin, and runway. The dashboard is what you see when that layer is working.
It's a live ECharts dashboard running on a deterministic synthetic dataset, labeled illustrative. The numbers reconcile because they're computed by the formulas in the metric table, not pasted in. Connect Stripe, QuickBooks, and Plaid, and Fi builds the same view from your data.
Type a prompt like the one above. Fi proposes the metrics, models them on your connected Stripe, QuickBooks, and bank, and you refine by asking follow-up questions. The first version ties out without a spreadsheet reconciliation.

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