Superpowers for money and numbers
The seven runs that answer where the money is and what the data says.
The steps
- Which of these you want — Every run here accepts an uploaded export, so none of them requires a connector — a CSV out of your accounting tool is enough to start. The finance four look backwards at money already committed; the data three look for the movement behind a number. All of them state what they could not measure rather than estimating it, which is the whole reason to trust the figure.
- Show me the cash position — Use it when you cannot say how much is owed to you, or which one to chase first.
**You get** — the ageing from not-yet-due to over ninety days, your real DSO against the theoretical one — that gap is the cost of not chasing — concentration risk named, and a chase letter per late invoice quoting its number and amount.
**Stays yours** — sending. It never contacts a client.
Run by the **Accountant** · ~10 min · sharper with Stripe, QuickBooks.
- Chase the missing paperwork — Use it when you are waiting on paperwork from a dozen people and the asking is the job.
**You get** — who owes what and since when, a reminder per person with the channel chosen deliberately, the tone graduated by how many times they have been asked, and exactly what is missing listed item by item.
**Stays yours** — sending. Drafts only.
Run by the **Accountant** · ~9 min · sharper with Gmail, Outlook or AgentMail, WhatsApp.
- Hunt down wasted spend — Use it when spend crept up and nobody can say on what.
**You get** — duplicates, forgotten subscriptions, supplier price drift shown as a percentage and in euros a year, and where one supplier has grown large enough that its terms are now your problem — everything ranked by annual euros.
**Stays yours** — cancelling anything. It reports and recommends.
Run by the **Accountant** · ~9 min · sharper with Stripe, QuickBooks.
- Decide where the next euro goes — Use it when there is money to place and the loudest option is winning by default.
**You get** — the options compared on return over a stated horizon, the two nobody proposes in the room — keep the cash, pay down what is owed — included by default, and the case argued against each, including the recommended one.
**Stays yours** — the decision — by design. The memo argues against its own recommendation so you can disagree with it cheaply.
Run by the **Accountant or Founder** · ~7 min · sharper with Stripe.
- Chase every failed payment — Use it when cards fail every month and nobody writes to the customer, so the churn report is where you find out.
**You get** — a webhook URL to paste into Stripe. Every failed payment gets a message chosen by why it failed — an expired card is paperwork, insufficient funds is not — carrying the exact amount, the invoice and the link to fix it, sent or left as a draft as you chose, with a reminder scheduled that checks the invoice is still unpaid before it fires.
**Stays yours** — what it may never say. This one writes about money, unwatched and in your name, so the deadlines, the consequences and the threats it is allowed to name are only the ones you wrote at setup.
Run by the **Accountant** · ~2 min · sharper with Stripe, Gmail, Outlook or AgentMail.
- Write the numbers report — Use it when you want the weekly numbers with the commentary, not another chart nobody reads.
**You get** — every connected source pulled and named, each metric against the previous equivalent period, and every meaningful movement investigated down to the page, product or channel that caused it — ending on at most three actions.
**Stays yours** — the three actions it ends on. It names the sources it could not read instead of quietly omitting them.
Run by the **Data Analyst** · ~9 min · sharper with Google Analytics, PostHog, Stripe.
- Find out who is leaving — Use it when customers leave and you only find out at renewal.
**You get** — monthly cohorts with retention by month since acquisition, where the curve flattens, and the early signal — what leavers did differently in the weeks before — with sample size stated honestly.
**Stays yours** — acting on the signal. It states sample size honestly — a cohort of nine tells you nothing, and it says so.
Run by the **Data Analyst** · ~11 min · sharper with Stripe, PostHog, Shopify.
- Read an A/B test — Use it when a test looks like a winner and you are about to ship it.
**You get** — conversion rates, absolute and relative difference, p-value and a confidence interval, plus the four ways the test may not say what you think — and the sample size that would settle it if it cannot.
**Stays yours** — shipping the variant. "This test cannot decide" is a verdict it will give you, and often the useful one.
Run by the **Data Analyst** · ~5 min · sharper with PostHog, Google Analytics.
You should see
You can name the one run that produces the thing you were about to make by hand.
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