The board-ready monthly growth report.
Every month on the 15th, Optimize Pilot ships this exact PDF to every customer's exec recipient list. Here's the full annotated template — Notion, Google Doc, and PDF versions — so you can produce it yourself until you switch.
- ▸Eight sections. One page each. No more, no less.
- ▸The board doesn't want dashboards — they want a narrative with three numbers.
- ▸The 'what we shipped' and 'what's next' sections matter more than the charts.
- ▸Ship on the same day every month. Consistency beats depth.
The one-sentence summary.
The cover page is where you lose or keep your exec audience. One sentence summarizing the month, three headline numbers, and the team logo. Nothing else. If the exec skims only this page, they should know whether growth is tracking to plan.
- ▸Title: 'Month · Year · Growth Report'
- ▸One-sentence summary (e.g., 'Testing velocity hit plan; revenue per visitor +12%').
- ▸Three headline numbers with month-over-month deltas.
- ▸Team logo + reporting date.
Three charts. Nothing else.
Pick three KPIs. Chart them over the last 12 months with a plan line. Annotate any outlier months with one sentence. Resist the urge to add more — the cost of a fourth chart is that nobody reads any of them.
- ▸Revenue per visitor (or equivalent primary metric).
- ▸Conversion rate at your top funnel step.
- ▸Testing velocity (tests shipped per month).
- ▸Include a plan line on each. Annotate outliers.
The scoreboard.
List every test shipped this month. Winner, loser, or inconclusive — all of them. With a one-line hypothesis and the revenue impact (positive or negative). This is the section that demonstrates velocity and rigor; skimping on it erodes board trust.
- ▸Table: test name, hypothesis, result, revenue impact.
- ▸Include losers and inconclusives. Hiding them kills trust.
- ▸Revenue impact annualized — 'Projected +$42K/year' is more useful than '+12% CR'.
What changed in the market.
Five bullets summarizing the competitor moves that mattered this month. Pricing, positioning, funding, hiring. Each one should end with a one-line 'our response' — or a note that we're monitoring without action.
- ▸Five bullets max. Signal over volume.
- ▸Each bullet: what happened, source, our response.
- ▸Never include 'every tweet' — stick to moves that could shift strategy.
The forward-looking section.
What are you testing next month, what risks are you watching, and what's the ask for the board? This is the section that differentiates a status report (nobody reads twice) from a growth report (gets acted on).
- ▸Top 3 tests queued for next month.
- ▸Top 3 risks or dependencies.
- ▸Specific ask for the board (or 'no asks' if none).
The most common failure mode: eight pages of backward-looking data and one paragraph of forward-looking plans. Flip the ratio — the forward section is what the board actually cares about.
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