Who This Helps
You're a founder operator. Every day, you face a pile of possible experiments. Which one do you run first? If you're tired of gut-feel decisions that waste time, this is for you.
The Data Reliability Leadership course is built for leaders like you who need to focus effort on the highest-impact move.
Mini Case
Meet Mei. She runs a 12-person startup. Her team had 3 experiment ideas last month. She picked the one that felt right. It flopped. 7 days of work gone.
Then she used a data contract from the Reliability Baseline mission. She checked which metric was most broken: customer churn was 12% higher than expected. That became her priority. The next experiment cut churn by 8% in two weeks.
Do This Now (5 Steps)
- List your top 3 experiments for this week. Write them down.
- Pick one key metric that matters most to your business right now. Example: daily active users, revenue per customer, or support ticket volume.
- Check if that metric has a data contract from the Data Contracts mission. If not, define it: what's the source, how often is it updated, and what's the acceptable range?
- Compare each experiment against that metric. Which one will improve it the most? Use a simple score from 1 to 3.
- Run the highest-scoring experiment first. Set a 3-day timer. Review the data after.
Avoid These Traps
- Don't pick an experiment just because it's easy. Easy rarely moves the needle.
- Don't ignore broken data. If your metric is wrong, your decision is wrong.
- Don't skip the contract. Without it, you're guessing what "good" looks like.
- Don't run more than one experiment at a time. Split focus kills results.
- Don't wait for perfect data. Use what you have and improve it.
Your Win by Friday
By Friday, you'll have run one experiment that's tied to a real metric. You'll know if it worked or not. No more wasted weeks. And you'll have a repeatable process for next week.
Plus, you'll feel like a superhero who actually knows what to do next. That's a good feeling.