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Metrics Library

AI-powered operational metrics 

empowering you to optimize decision making and anticipate trends.

In Quarter Upsell - Total Churn

The result of taking the Upsell ARR in a quarter and subtracting the Total Churn in that quarter.

Expected Customer Lifetime Value (CLV)

Average expected profit (or revenue) per customer over the expected length of the relationship post sale.  This uses the Expected Gross Logo Retention, Average Deal Size, CAC, and COGS.

Cost of Goods Sold (COGS)

Money spent on things needed to support the customers after they sign up. This is the total of all costs related to creating and delivering a product or service to your customers.

Gross Merchandise Value (GMV)

Relevant for marketplaces; This is the amount a customer spends in a marketplace in a given time period.

Downsell Transactions

The number of transactions in which a logo decreased their ARR (or spent less in a given month than the prior month).

Churned Logos

The number of unique customers that cancelled their subscription (or did not transact) at a specific point in time, or over a time period. Churned Logos are no longer active customers.

Gross Logo Retention

Compare all customers you had 12 months ago to that same set of customers today.  What percentage are still an active customer?

Downsell ARR

Downsell ARR is the difference in what an existing customer was paying (initial contract value) compared to what they pay now (current contract value), for customers that pay less now.

Churn ARR

Churn ARR is the annualized value of the recurring portion of contracts for customers that went to $0 in Run Rate ARR (i.e are no longer customers).

Gross $ Retention

Compare the ARR from all customers you had 12 months ago to that same set of customers today. Expressed as a percentage, divide the ARR from those customers today by the ARR from 1 year ago, excluding upsell from any customer. This number will be between 0 and 100%.

Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)

Answers the question how many dollars in Sales and Marketing do you need to spend to acquire 1 customer. (Sales and Marketing Expenses/Number of Customers) - Time Constraint

Cash Burn

The difference between money coming into the company from customers compared to the money being spent to run the business.

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