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Concepts

Metrics and readings

A metric is a number your team tracks, such as signups or revenue. Readings are its values over time.

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A metric is a number your team already tracks: signups, revenue, support tickets, page load. Each value is a reading, usually one a day.

Where readings come from

  • Your tools. Stripe and other tools, pulled on a schedule through read-only connections. Metrics

  • Files. A spreadsheet as CSV or .xlsx, or a dashboard's CSV export.

  • Agents and scripts. An agent calls record_readings, or a script sends a day's total. Record numbers

An admin defines each metric first. Agents and scripts can only add readings to metrics that exist.

Linking metrics to decisions

Each expectation is linked to the metric that measures it, by the name your team uses for the number. A proposed link is marked as proposed, and counts unless someone turns it down.