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Metric definitions

What every number on this portal means, including its denominator

Funnel rates

Reply rate
Replies divided by emails sent, in the selected window. Replies count every prospect response, including out-of-office autoresponders.
Positive reply rate
Positive replies divided by total replies. A positive reply is a lead Smartlead marks interested (human-tagged plus classifier).
Meeting booked rate
Booked calls divided by positive replies. It reads how well interested replies convert into calendar time, not how well sending does.
Email-to-booked call
Booked calls divided by emails sent, the end-to-end funnel. Shown both as a percentage and as 1 call per N emails.
Booked calls
Meetings recorded in the window minus cancellations. No-shows stay counted as booked (the call was won; showing up is tracked separately).

Deliverability

Bounce rate
Bounces divided by emails sent over the trailing 7 days, per client. The rate only gets a status once the client sent 50+ emails in the window.
Warn / pause lines
Over 2% bounce warns; over 4% the weekly audit auto-pauses the campaign. Same thresholds as the Monday deliverability audit.
Warmup ready
An inbox counts as launch-ready 14 days after it was added to the registry. Next batch shows when the youngest warming inboxes cross that line.

Send plan

Projected/day
Average sends per weekday over the recent Smartlead snapshots, per client.
Runway (weekdays)
Remaining lead pool (not-started plus in-progress leads) divided by projected daily sends. Red under 3 weekdays, yellow under 7.
Target/day
The commercial send target from the client roster. Clients without an explicit target are judged on runway only.

Commercials

Retainer MRR
Monthly retainers from the client roster (Supabase clients table). PPL fees are excluded from MRR and shown separately.
Billable meeting
A qualified meeting that was not a no-show or cancellation. PPL fees bill per billable meeting.
Gross margin (trailing 30d)
(Revenue minus delivery cost) / revenue over the last 30 days. Revenue = retainer + billable meetings x PPL fee. Delivery cost = inbox hosting + domain amortization + lead data (~$0.008/send) + client portal, per the /client-margins cost model.
Revenue by source
Every dollar of revenue is mapped to a business line via the client it came from: Outbound (cold email agency book), OSG (One Strategy Group), AI Coaching (paid AI coaching sessions), or Automation (custom AI/automation builds). Affiliate payouts and unconfirmed lines show as Affiliate/Other; revenue with no client mapping shows as Unattributed until resolved. A client buying two lines rides under its primary engagement.
CAC
Customer acquisition cost. Sales and marketing OpEx plus Slate's own-pipeline sending cost, divided by clients with revenue in the model period.
30-day GP
Average gross profit per client month across the model period. This is a 30-day gross-profit proxy, not cash collected in a new client's first 30 days.
CAC payback
CAC divided by average gross profit per client month. It estimates how many months of gross profit repay the cost to acquire a client.
LTGP : CAC
Lifetime gross profit divided by customer acquisition cost. The dashboard shows a range: the floor uses realized tenure of churned clients, while steady state uses 1 divided by monthly churn. The steady-state end is optimistic for a young book.

Freshness

Updated / precomputed
Most pages serve rollups precomputed every 20 minutes; the stamp is the rollup write time. Live-computed payloads stamp their own build time.
Smartlead data synced
Campaign stats sync from Smartlead every 4 hours. A number can be at most that old on top of its rollup age.
Finance model
The finance page reads the operating-model snapshot (rebuilt manually from Mercury), not live bank data. Its rebuild time is shown on the page.
Timezone
Every date, window, and meeting time on the portal is America/Los_Angeles.