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# SaaS Finance Metrics

> Turn raw revenue data into a one-glance health picture across seven canonical metrics, MRR/ARR, LTV/CAC, Magic Number, Rule of 40, NRR/GRR, Burn Multiple and Quick Ratio.

SaaS Finance Metrics turns raw revenue data into a one-glance financial health picture built on seven canonical metrics: MRR/ARR, LTV/CAC, Magic Number, Rule of 40, NRR/GRR, Burn Multiple, and Quick Ratio. It pulls from your sales and payments tables, computes every metric with industry-benchmarked decile thresholds, and renders a color-coded dashboard plus a Monday email snapshot a founder can read in 30 seconds. It also adapts the pure-SaaS template for service/agency models by adjusting gross margin and accounting for prepaid, negative cash-conversion-cycle businesses.

## Use cases
- Monthly financial health summary for the founder
- Recomputing unit economics after renewals, churn, or expansion
- Investor decks needing Rule of 40, Magic Number, and NRR
- Measuring the revenue impact of a pricing change
- Cohort retention reporting by signup month
- Embedding aggregate finance metrics into customer-facing reports

## Benefits
- See your full financial trajectory at a glance: seven KPIs, color-coded green/yellow/red
- Cut decision fatigue with a Monday snapshot that surfaces only what needs attention
- Avoid demoralizing false alarms with 3-month rolling averages and sector-aware benchmarks
- Spot revenue concentration risk and under-invested growth before they bite

## What’s included
- All seven metric formulas with definitions and benchmark thresholds
- A materialized finance-snapshot view (weekly refresh) with cohort and MoM-delta logic
- A Monday snapshot script that computes, color-codes, and emails the founder
- A decile benchmark table sourced from recognized SaaS canon
- A 30-second dashboard tile renderer with green/yellow/red coding
- An anti-pattern catalog (single-month panic, fully-loaded CAC, NRR vs GRR confusion, and more)

## Who it’s for
For SaaS and service-business founders and operators who need trustworthy, benchmark-grounded financial health metrics without building a finance stack from scratch.

## How it runs
Seven numbers tell you whether a recurring-revenue business is healthy. They are computed from one live source, scored against published benchmarks, and rendered as a dashboard you can read in thirty seconds.
1. Refreshes the finance snapshot view built on the live sales and payments tables: active customer base filtered correctly (converted, active lifecycle, no merged duplicates), monthly values summed into MRR, new versus existing revenue split, and churned revenue isolated for the period.
2. Computes the seven-metric battery from that single source: MRR and ARR, LTV against fully-loaded CAC, Magic Number for sales efficiency, Rule of 40 for the growth-profit balance, NRR and GRR for retention quality, Burn Multiple for capital efficiency and Quick Ratio for growth quality.
3. Scores each metric against published benchmark deciles (the Skok, ChartMogul and Craft Ventures canons) with sector-aware thresholds, because comparing a services-hybrid business against pure-SaaS world-class retention only produces false alarms.
4. Renders the result as a 30-second decision dashboard: seven tiles color-coded green, yellow or red, with month-over-month deltas and trend arrows, plus a 3-month rolling average so a single noisy month does not trigger panic.
5. Generates the alert layer from threshold breaches: retention below the warning line queues a churn root-cause task, an unusually high LTV-to-CAC ratio is flagged as under-investment in growth, and a healthy Magic Number is flagged as license to scale spend.
6. Writes the narrative snapshot for the decision-maker: what happened this month in plain language (new revenue, renewals, losses, the why behind each), with aggregate-only figures so no individual customer's pricing is ever exposed.

## FAQ
### We're an agency, not pure SaaS, do the metrics still apply?
Yes, and explicitly so: the template is adapted for service and agency models by adjusting gross margin and accounting for prepaid, negative cash-conversion-cycle businesses. The seven metrics stay the same; the thresholds get read through your model.

### Where do the numbers come from, do I type them in by hand?
They are pulled from your sales and payments tables into a materialized finance-snapshot view that refreshes weekly. Seven metrics are computed against decile benchmark thresholds, then rendered as color-coded dashboard tiles plus a Monday email a founder reads in thirty seconds.

### Will it do my accounting or replace bookkeeping?
No. It computes health metrics: MRR/ARR, LTV/CAC, Rule of 40, NRR, from revenue data. Invoicing, tax, and ledger reconciliation are out of scope; it runs alongside your accounting software, not instead of it.

## Price
$15, one-time, no subscription. VAT included.

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