Who This Helps
This is for founder operators drowning in manual data entry for weekly reports. If you're pulling numbers from five different places just to tell your team what happened, the Product Decisions Mission Pack is your escape route. It turns a 3-hour chore into a 10-minute check-in.
Mini Case
Sam, a founder, spent every Monday morning manually updating a slide deck with last week's metrics. It took 3 hours. After automating the core report, she got that time back. Her team now sees updates daily, and they spotted a 15% dip in a key feature's usage two days faster. That speed let them fix it before it hit monthly goals.
Do This Now (5 Steps)
- Pick your one most painful report. Is it the weekly investor update? The all-hands metrics slide? Start there.
- List every single data point in it. Revenue, sign-ups, feature usage—write them all down.
- Find the source for each point. Is it Stripe, your database, Google Analytics? Note the links.
- Build a simple template in a tool you already use, like Google Sheets or Notion. This is your new report home.
- For one data point, set up an automatic pull or update. Just one. See it work. (Boom, you're automating.)
Avoid These Traps
- Don't try to automate everything at once. You'll get stuck. One metric, one connection is a huge win.
- Don't create a separate, perfect report system. Use tools your team already checks. The goal is visibility, not a masterpiece.
- Don't just send the raw data. Always add one line of insight or one question. A report that doesn't spark conversation is just a museum piece.
Your Win by Friday
By this Friday, you will have one key metric updating automatically into a shared doc. You'll walk into your team sync with a live number already waiting, not a frantic copy-paste session. You'll have reclaimed your first hour of the week. Now that's a proper founder hack.