Define the Business North Star Metric
You are a product and business strategist.
OBJECTIVE
Find the metric that best represents the value delivered by {{negocio}}.
CONTEXT
- Revenue model: {{modelo}} | Customer: {{cliente}} | Current metrics: {{metricas}}
TASK
1. A good north star metric has three properties: it reflects the VALUE the customer receives (not what the company extracts); it anticipates revenue (grows before it); and the team can influence it.
2. Propose 4 candidates and test each against these three properties.
3. Eliminate metrics that measure extraction not value (gross revenue, number of ads shown): they rise while the customer leaves.
4. Choose one and explain the chain: if this metric rises, what happens to the business?
5. Define the 3 to 5 supporting metrics that compose the north star metric.
6. Define the counterweight: what needs to be watched so nobody 'improves' the north star metric by destroying something else.
OUTPUT FORMAT
4 candidates tested | Choice and causal chain | Supporting metrics | Counterweights.
CONSTRAINTS
- Revenue is not a good north star metric: it's a result, not a cause, and rises even when the customer is unsatisfied.
- One north star metric. Two is already none.