Start from a finished board.

Four ready-made boards to clone, the four shapes a report can take, and plain definitions of a measure, a cohort and scope, so a new person can understand a board on day one.

ExploreExecutive pulseA templateUse template
ExecutiveOrg KPIsno blank board
SalesWhere deals stallno setup
FinanceAging riskno export
CommsChannel mixno tagging
A board on the first afternoon.
Start from oneClone a finished board and make it yours

Executive pulse, sales velocity, collections risk and comms health arrive built. Clone one, point it at your own scope, and you have a board on the first afternoon rather than the second week.

The starting point

Ready-made boards, and what the words mean.

Templates come complete with their widgets, so you clone one and start. A short guide says which report shape suits which question. And the key words - measure, cohort, scope - are defined right there, so somebody new can understand a board without a walkthrough.

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Templates and guides to start a board fast and read your analytics with confidence.

Board templatesClone one to a new board and make it yours.
Executive pulseAnalytics

Org-wide KPIs, revenue and health in one board for the leadership view.

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Sales velocitySales

Stage funnel, days in stage and win rates, to see where deals stall.

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Collections riskFinance

Aging receivables and overdue concentration, so risk surfaces early.

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Comms healthComms

Response time, volume and channel mix across inbound conversations.

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Report typesThe shapes a report can take, and what each is best for.
Table

Rows and columns with subtotals and a grand total. Best for detail you read or export, grouped by a dimension.

Chart

A bar, line or donut for one measure over time or across a segment. Best for spotting trend and comparison at a glance.

Number

A single KPI with its period-over-period delta. Best for one headline figure you watch, like weighted forecast.

Pivot

A measure cross-tabbed by two dimensions with subtotals. Best for owner-by-month style breakdowns.

Best practicesThe vocabulary the workbench assumes, in plain terms.
What a measure is

A measure is a governed metric: an entity plus an aggregation plus a field, currency-safe and resolved through its links. The metric is the number it computes.

Build on measures, not raw columns, so every board speaks the same governed language.

When to use a cohort

A cohort splits records into quartile tiers by a measure, so the top 25 percent stands apart from the rest.

Reach for a cohort when an average hides the spread and you need to see the top tier against the tail.

How scope works

Scope decides whose rows a board reads: org, mine, team, or a specific person. Boards stay private until you share them.

Set scope to the audience, not the author. A team board reads the team, not just you.

Every term is explained in plain words.

Templates

Four board templates to clone.

Start from a working board instead of an empty grid.

  • Clone an executive board with company-wide KPIs and health
  • Clone a sales board with the stage funnel and win rates
  • Clone a finance board with aging receivables and overdue risk
  • Clone a comms board with response times and channel mix
  • Point any clone at your company, your team or yourself
Board templatesFour
Executive pulseOrg KPIs
Sales velocityWhere deals stall
Collections riskAging receivables
Report shapes
TableDetail you export
ChartTrend at a glance
Number, pivotKPI, cross-tab
Clone and make it yoursthe template becomes a real board with your own scope
The vocabulary

What the words mean.

Defined in the same words the product uses, so the guide and the screen always agree.

  • Learn what a measure is, and why every team gets the same number from it
  • See when splitting people into cohorts tells you more than an average
  • Understand scope: who a board is for decides whose numbers it shows
  • Match each of the four report shapes to the question it answers
  • Give somebody new one page to read before their first board
Best practicesDefined
A measureEntity, aggregation, field
A cohortQuartile tiers
ScopeWhose rows it reads
And the advice
Build on measuresNot raw columns
Reach for a cohortWhen an average hides
Set scopeTo the audience
Written by the people who built itso the vocabulary is the same in the product and in the guide
Behind a figure

Click any figure to see the records it counted.

A panel opens beside the chart listing the deals, invoices or people that make up the number. Everything reads as a name, never an internal code, so you can check a total against the work behind it. It takes one click from the chart you were already looking at.

One figure, opened up
You getThe records counted
Shown asNames, not codes
Checking itOne click
Straight from the chart itself
Empty charts

An empty chart tells you why it is empty.

You get the reason in a sentence: nothing recorded yet, nothing inside the period you picked, or filters that rule everything out. Each reason arrives with the fix, such as widening the time range. The reason is worked out by fixed rules rather than by AI, so it says the same thing every time.

Why it came back empty
Nothing yetNo deals to count
Wrong periodNone in that window
Filters too tightNone match
The fix comes with the reason
What next

NearSync AI suggests the next thing to add, and one click adds it.

While you shape a pivot, a comparison or a funnel, two or three small suggestions appear: group by owner as well, add a count, draw it as a donut. Each one is added on top of what you already built rather than replacing it. Anything that does not match the fields you actually have is dropped before it reaches you.

Suggestions
Two or threeAt a time
Added on topYour work stays
Nothing that fitsNothing shown
Checked against your real fields first

Access

Who can do what.

Browsing the templates and the definitions is open to everybody. A clone is a real board for a real audience, so creating one needs the same permission as creating any other board.

See

Browse the templates and the guides.

Do

Clone a template into a board of your own.

Manage

Decide which template a team starts from.

Admin

Publish a cloned board to the whole company.

Admin is the highest role and is not limited by these permissions, so give it only to the small group that genuinely needs it.

One new starter, start to finish

One clone, a working board.

The template arrived with its widgets already in place, and the definitions of measure, cohort and scope were on the same screen. Nobody had to sit with them and explain the words first.

Four finished boards, each described by the question it answers.

Analytics guides

See Analytics on your own data.

Half an hour on your own numbers, governed once so they mean the same thing everywhere.