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Meeting Agenda: David Lopez - Financial Metrics & KPI Review

Date: TBD (Week 1)
Duration: 1 hour
Attendees: David Lopez, Uttam Kumaran (Brainforge)
Location: ABC Office or Virtual

Meeting Overview

This session focuses on understanding ABC’s financial metrics, KPI tracking, and business performance measurement. You have a KPI sheet that Bo mentioned - we want to understand what metrics drive decisions, how performance is measured across services and markets, and what financial insights are available today.

Meeting Objectives

  1. Review ABC’s core KPIs and how they’re tracked
  2. Understand financial performance by service line, market, and channel
  3. Document current reporting processes and tools
  4. Identify financial data that could inform marketing/growth decisions
  5. Understand budgeting and forecasting processes

Agenda (60 minutes)

Block 1: Core Financial KPIs (20 min)

The KPI Dashboard:

  1. Walk me through your KPI sheet

    • What metrics are on it?
    • How often is it updated? (Daily, weekly, monthly?)
    • Who uses this? (Bo, Steven, leadership team?)
    • What tool/system? (Excel, dashboard, BI tool?)

  2. Revenue metrics

    • Total revenue tracking (monthly, quarterly, annual)
    • Revenue by service line (which services are biggest?)
    • Revenue by market (Austin, San Antonio, College Station, etc.)
    • Revenue by customer type (residential 80%, commercial 20%)
    • Recurring vs. one-time revenue split

  3. Growth metrics

    • Current growth rate? (Bo mentioned 2-3% plateau)
    • Growth by service line (which are growing vs. declining?)
    • Growth by market
    • New customer acquisition trends
    • Same-store sales growth

  4. Profitability metrics

    • Gross margin by service?
    • Operating margin?
    • EBITDA tracking?
    • “Rule of 21” - Revenue + Profit = 21 - how does this work?

Break (5 min)

Block 2: Customer Economics & Retention (15 min)

Customer-Level Metrics: 5. Customer lifetime value (LTV)

  • Do you track LTV?
  • LTV by service line?
  • Single-service vs. multi-service customer value?
  • Average customer tenure?

  1. Retention and churn

    • Annual retention rate?
    • Churn rate by service?
    • Reasons for churn (if tracked)?
    • Value of canceled customers?

  2. Customer acquisition cost (CAC)

    • Do you track CAC?
    • CAC by channel (if available)?
    • LTV to CAC ratio?
    • Payback period on customer acquisition?

  3. Average transaction values

    • Average sale by service?
    • Pest contract values ($500-600 mentioned)
    • Commercial contract sizes ($5-30K mentioned)
    • Bundle pricing and attach rates?

Break (5 min)

Block 3: Marketing & Channel Economics (15 min)

Marketing Budget & ROI: 9. Marketing spend tracking

  • Total marketing budget (~4% of revenue mentioned)
  • Budget breakdown by channel (if available)
  • Spending trends over time
  • How is marketing budget allocated/approved?

  1. Channel performance (if tracked)

    • Cost per lead by channel?
    • Conversion rates by channel?
    • Customer acquisition cost by channel?
    • ROAS or ROI by channel?
    • Which channels drive most profitable customers?

  2. Lead metrics

    • Total leads by month/quarter?
    • Lead volume trends (declining as Bo mentioned?)
    • Lead-to-customer conversion rate (~70% mentioned)?
    • Capacity constraints - can you handle more leads?

Break (5 min)

Block 4: Operational Metrics & Forecasting (10 min)

Operational Performance: 12. Efficiency metrics - Call volume (80K+ per month) - Technician utilization? - Service completion rates? - Callback/rework rates?

  1. Commercial business metrics
    • Commercial revenue tracking
    • Commercial pipeline and sales cycle
    • Contract values and margins
    • Growth trajectory

Forecasting & Planning: 14. How does ABC forecast? - CSR forecasting 10% growth mentioned - how does this work? - Annual budgeting process - Seasonal patterns and planning - Capacity planning based on forecast

  1. What financial questions can’t you answer today?
    • Data gaps or blind spots?
    • Metrics you wish you tracked?
    • Analysis that would be valuable but isn’t done?

Block 5: Data & Reporting (10 min)

Current Reporting: 16. Financial reporting processes - What reports do you produce regularly? - Who consumes them? - What tools do you use? (Sage, Excel, other?) - How much manual work is involved?

  1. Data sources and integration

    • Where does financial data come from? (Evolve, Sage, others?)
    • Data integration challenges?
    • How do you reconcile across systems?

  2. Benchmarking

    • Industry benchmarks you track?
    • How does ABC compare?
    • Internal benchmarks by service/market?

Wrap-Up (5 min)

Block 6: Next Steps

  1. Data sharing

    • Can you share the KPI sheet with us?
    • Historical performance data? (12-24 months)
    • Service/market breakdowns?
    • What data is sensitive vs. shareable?

  2. Collaboration opportunities

    • Financial metrics that could be dashboarded/automated?
    • Analysis you’d find valuable?
    • How can better data inform growth decisions?

Follow-Up Items

From David:

  • Share KPI sheet (Excel, dashboard, or summary)
  • Historical revenue data by service and market (12-24 months if available)
  • Marketing budget breakdown (if available)
  • Customer retention/churn data (if tracked)
  • Lead volume trends (if available)
  • CAC/LTV data (if tracked)

From Brainforge:

  • Analysis of KPI trends and patterns
  • Proposed financial dashboards
  • Framework for tracking marketing ROI by channel
  • Customer economics analysis (LTV, CAC, retention value)

Key Questions to Answer

  • What are ABC’s top 3 most-watched KPIs?
  • Which service lines are most/least profitable?
  • Do you track marketing ROI by channel?
  • Is LTV and CAC tracked systematically?
  • What’s the financial impact of the 2-3% growth plateau?
  • Where are the biggest financial blind spots?
  • What analysis would most help Bo/Steven make growth decisions?

Documents/Data Requested

  1. KPI sheet (primary document)
  2. Revenue by service line (historical trends)
  3. Revenue by market (historical trends)
  4. Marketing budget breakdown by channel
  5. Customer retention/churn data
  6. Lead volume trends
  7. Any CAC/LTV analysis that exists
  8. Commercial business metrics
  9. Forecasting models/assumptions

Context for Discussion

What we know from discovery meeting:

  • ~110M, San Antonio $30M, other markets smaller)
  • 2-3% growth plateau (frustration point)
  • 80% residential, 20% commercial
  • ~4% of revenue to marketing
  • “Rule of 21” budgeting principle
  • Call volume declining (“phone doesn’t ring as much”)
  • ~70% conversion rate
  • 17 service lines
  • Strong retention (“very, very high”)

What we want to understand better:

  • Financial performance by service (which are stars, question marks?)
  • True marketing ROI by channel
  • Customer economics (LTV, CAC, payback)
  • Commercial business opportunity
  • Where growth investments would have highest ROI

Prepared: December 3, 2025

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