Executive Dashboards board-ready, decision-grade, mobile-first
An executive dashboard is not a smaller version of your operational dashboard — it is a different product entirely. Operators need detail, executives need direction. We build executive dashboards around the 8–12 KPIs that actually drive decisions at the leadership level: revenue, gross margin, CAC, LTV, runway, NPS, key cohort metrics, and one or two business-specific North Stars.
Every executive dashboard we build is mobile-first (because CXOs check on phones between meetings), refreshes daily or in real-time depending on data needs, and includes commentary fields where the team can explain anomalies before they hit the next leadership review. The result: leadership meetings spent on decisions, not on debating which number is correct.
Common problems we fix
- Founder/CXO checking 6 different dashboards to assemble a snapshot
- Board reports manually built from Excel every month
- No single source of truth for revenue, CAC, runway
- Dashboards built for analysts — too dense for executive consumption
- Trend lines missing — you see today's number but not direction
What you get
- KPI selection workshop with leadership team (8–12 metrics, no more)
- Mobile-first design — readable on a phone in 10 seconds
- Trend lines + period-over-period comparison on every metric
- Commentary field per metric so the team can annotate anomalies
- Drill-down to operational dashboard when leadership wants more detail
- Daily / real-time refresh with stale-data warnings
- Board-export view (PDF / PPT) generated automatically each month
- Role-based access for board members, investors, and leadership
- Scenario / forecast layer for runway and revenue projections
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Book ConsultationQuestions about executive dashboards
Eight to twelve, max. More than that and the dashboard becomes operational, not strategic. We do a workshop with leadership to pick the ones that drive actual decisions.
Mobile-first. Most executives check on a phone before / between / after meetings. Desktop view is the secondary form factor.
Yes. We can auto-generate a monthly board-ready PDF or Google Slides export with the KPIs, trend commentary, and forecast — saving the team a day of manual work each month.
Role-based access at the dashboard, view, and row level. CFO sees finance, board sees aggregates, ops leadership sees operational metrics. Audit log included.
Yes. If you have a financial model in Excel / Google Sheets / Causal / Pry, we connect it as a data source so the executive view shows actuals vs forecast in one place.
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Tell us what you're working on and where you want to go. We'll put together a plan. No obligation, no sales pitch.
- Free 30-minute call
- A plan built around your goals
- No obligation, no pressure
- Your own account manager