Most founders say they want “better reporting”

What they actually need is fewer numbers – and more decisions.

If your monthly close produces a 20-tab spreadsheet that nobody reads, you don’t have reporting.
You have accounting noise.

The goal of finance isn’t to describe the past.
It’s to reduce uncertainty about the next 30-90 days.

Here’s the simplest reporting stack that works for almost every service or SaaS business:

1. Cash runway (weekly)
   How many weeks you can operate with current cash – based on your real burn, not hope.

2. Revenue pipeline (weekly)
   Booked, likely, possible. With dates. Not “we’re talking to them”.

3. Gross margin (monthly)
   By product/service line. If margin isn’t improving, growth won’t feel better.
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4. 3 KPIs (weekly)
   Pick the drivers that create cash. Examples: DSO, churn, CAC payback, utilization, leads-to-close rate.

Everything else is optional until these are clean.

One rule: every metric must answer a question.
If a number doesn’t change a decision, remove it.

Founders don’t need more data.
They need a dashboard that forces action.

If you want, send me your current monthly report (screenshot is fine) – I’ll tell you what to delete, what to keep, and what 3 numbers will actually run your business.