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The Loom that's worth more than the dashboard

Every 14-day site ships with analytics installed, UTMs mapped, and a dashboard built. And then, on launch day, we record a 12-minute Loom that walks through all of it. The Loom is the more valuable artefact. Here's why.

Dashboards answer questions. They don't teach you which to ask.

A dashboard handed over without narration becomes wallpaper within a month. Not because clients aren't smart — because a grid of charts doesn't tell you which number is a lever and which is weather.

The Loom does the thing the dashboard can't: it points. This number is the one that pays for the site. This one tells you which channel is working. This one looks important and isn't — ignore it. When it drops, here's the first place to look.

What's in the 12 minutes

  • The funnel, walked through as a story: visitor → action → workflow → revenue.
  • Each automation, shown actually running with a live test event.
  • The two or three numbers worth checking weekly, and what 'normal' looks like for each.
  • Where everything lives — accounts, access, ownership — so nothing is locked to us.

A video survives handoffs. The person who watched the screen-share quits; the new hire watches the Loom. It's documentation that doesn't pretend people read documentation.

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