Your lead generation dashboard, every lead traced to its source.

Lead volume, MQLs, cost per lead, conversion rate, and channel performance in one view, reconciled from ad platforms and your CRM, so every lead traces back to the campaign that created it.

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What’s in a lead generation dashboard?

What’s in a lead generation dashboard?

A lead generation dashboard is the single governed view of how leads are entering the business: how many leads come in, from which channels, what each one costs, and what percentage become marketing qualified. The version worth optimizing on reconciles ad platforms and the CRM, so the lead count on the screen is the lead count in the system.

Google Ads claims one lead count, Meta claims another, and HubSpot shows a third. When lead volume, cost per lead, and MQL conversion all come from one set of governed definitions, you optimize the channels that actually generate leads, not the ones that claim credit.

Who it’s forHeads of marketing, demand gen managers, and growth leads who own lead volume.

CadenceRefreshed daily; reviewed in the weekly marketing review and before budget allocation.

Built fromHubspot, Google Ads, Facebook Ads

§ 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 to see lead generation in one place: how many leads we are generating, from which channels, what they cost, and how many of them become MQLs.
✦ Fi
Here's your lead generation dashboard, on your Hubspot, Google Ads and Facebook Ads data.
Here’s what’s in it

The top row leads with the 4 numbers that matter most: Lead volume, MQLs, Cost per lead, Lead → MQL rate. Each shows a delta versus the prior period so you can see direction at a glance. Below that, 2 trend charts (Lead volume over time, Cost per lead trend) show how the headline numbers have moved over time. A breakdown (Leads by channel) splits the metric by dimension so you can see what's driving the total. A detail table (Lead gen efficiency) 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

Lead volume

5.9K▼ 6.4%
Data ▾
PeriodLead Volume
Jan3.0K
Feb3.8K
Mar3.4K
Apr3.2K
May3.4K
Jun3.2K
Jul3.5K
Aug3.7K
Sep4.1K
Oct4.7K
Nov6.3K
Dec5.9K

MQLs

2.2K▼ 2.2%
Data ▾
PeriodMQLs
Jan1.2K
Feb1.4K
Mar1.5K
Apr1.8K
May1.7K
Jun1.9K
Jul2.3K
Aug2.0K
Sep2.2K
Oct2.4K
Nov2.3K
Dec2.2K

Cost per lead

$51▼ 25.7%
Data ▾
PeriodCost per Conversion
Jan$52
Feb$43
Mar$46
Apr$44
May$45
Jun$53
Jul$42
Aug$62
Sep$48
Oct$68
Nov$68
Dec$51

Lead → MQL rate

37.5%▲ 4.6%
Data ▾
PeriodLead → MQL Rate
Jan40.1%
Feb37.2%
Mar43.3%
Apr56.4%
May50.4%
Jun58.8%
Jul65.1%
Aug52.9%
Sep54.0%
Oct50.3%
Nov35.8%
Dec37.5%

Lead volume over time

3,000 3,500 4,000 4,500 5,000 5,500 6,000 6,500 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Data ▾
PeriodLead Volume
Jan3.0K
Feb3.8K
Mar3.4K
Apr3.2K
May3.4K
Jun3.2K
Jul3.5K
Aug3.7K
Sep4.1K
Oct4.7K
Nov6.3K
Dec5.9K

Leads by channel

Paid Search Paid Social Organic Email Referral 0 300 600 900 1,200
Data ▾
ChannelLead Volume
Paid Search1.5K
Paid Social1.5K
Organic672
Email1.0K
Referral1.3K

Cost per lead trend

40 45 50 55 60 65 70 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Data ▾
PeriodCost per Conversion
Jan$52
Feb$43
Mar$46
Apr$44
May$45
Jun$53
Jul$42
Aug$62
Sep$48
Oct$68
Nov$68
Dec$51

Lead gen efficiency

Ad Spend$322K▲ 11.1%
Conversions6.4K▲ 49.4%
MQL → SQL Rate29.5%▼ 8.7%
✦ Fi
Anything else I can do for you?
You
Which channel generates the most leads at the lowest cost?Show me cost per lead by channel over the last quarter.Why did lead volume drop last month when spend was flat?What would MQL volume look like if organic lead conversion improved by 10%?Break leads by source instead of channel.Trace this month's MQLs back to the campaigns that generated the leads.Break lead volume by channel and flag any channel where cost per lead doubled.Add MQL conversion rate by source to see which channels produce quality leads.Show me lead volume trend overlaid with ad spend.
  • Which channel generates the most leads at the lowest cost?
  • Show me cost per lead by channel over the last quarter.
  • Why did lead volume drop last month when spend was flat?
  • What would MQL volume look like if organic lead conversion improved by 10%?
  • Break leads by source instead of channel.
  • Trace this month's MQLs back to the campaigns that generated the leads.
  • Break lead volume by channel and flag any channel where cost per lead doubled.
  • Add MQL conversion rate by source to see which channels produce quality leads.
  • Show me lead volume trend overlaid with ad spend.
§ 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.

ContactLead VolumeMQLsLead → MQL RateMQL → SQL Rate
DealMQL → SQL Rate
CampaignCost per ConversionAd SpendConversions
Ad GroupCost per ConversionAd Spend
Ad (Creative)Cost per ConversionAd Spend
CampaignCost per ConversionAd SpendConversions
AdCost per ConversionAd Spend
MetricWhat it measuresHow it's calculatedSources
Cost per ConversionWhat you pay, on average, for a single conversion, the unit cost of demand.Ad Spend ÷ ConversionsGoogle Ads, Facebook Ads
Lead → MQL RateMQLs ÷ Lead VolumeHubspot
MQL → SQL RateThe share of marketing-qualified leads that sales accepts as qualified, the handoff health check between the two teams.SQLs ÷ MQLsHubspot
§ Then do something about it

Have our agent watch for you

A lead generation 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 lead generation 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 platform counts a lead differently — Google Ads counts a form fill, Meta counts a lead ad submission, and HubSpot counts a contact creation. The reconciliation map above shows which object each metric comes from, so there is one definition of a lead, modeled in your warehouse.
Ad platforms (Google Ads, Meta) for paid lead volume, a CRM (HubSpot) for all leads and MQL scoring. Definite syncs and models all sources into governed definitions so lead volume and cost are comparable across channels.
A lead is anyone who enters the system. An MQL is a lead that meets your marketing qualification criteria — a threshold score, a behavior trigger, or both. When both come from governed definitions, the gap between them tells you about lead quality, not scoring inconsistency.
It is a live ECharts dashboard running on a deterministic synthetic dataset, labeled illustrative. Cost per lead is computed from ad spend over leads, by the formula in the metric table. Connect your platforms and Fi builds the same view from your data.
A BI tool charts whatever lead count each platform claims and inherits the triple-count. This reconciles ad platforms and the CRM to one definition of a lead, so the count on the screen is the count in the system, comparable across channels.
Tell Fi what you need, the way the prompt above reads. Fi connects your ad platforms and CRM, proposes the lead gen metrics, and you refine by asking follow-ups. The first version traces every lead without a spreadsheet.

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