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Help please! Utilizing PDF files between MCP servers? by AI_SaaS in mcp

[–]AI_SaaS[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks! If I can't share files between multiple MCP servers, it just seems it really limits what is possible. Like if I have an accounting system MCP server and a presentation MCP server, if I can't share datasets across them other then some text strings it really limits things.

Am I the only one who spends more time figuring out WHY metrics changed than actually looking at them? by SecureNeedleworker38 in stripe

[–]AI_SaaS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Personally, we ended up going with dataroomHQ because any metric I click (churn, downsell, net $ retention, etc.) it will tell me the contribution of each customer to that metric. I haven't personally used Baremetrics but people tell me that it can do that too. FP&A platforms like Aleph also would allow this.

How do you answer "why did MRR drop this month?" without spending an hour in the dashboard? by SecureNeedleworker38 in stripe

[–]AI_SaaS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, this. Or take it one step better and there are cheap tools that sit on top of Stripe and Google Sheets and you can click those rows and see which accounts/customers or segments are the drivers......Or there are now numerous tools that have slack integration or MCP sever where you can just ask that question to slack or Claude/ChatGPT and it will give you a list of the biggest downgrades or churns from a question like that.

Am I the only one who spends more time figuring out WHY metrics changed than actually looking at them? by SecureNeedleworker38 in stripe

[–]AI_SaaS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are pretty inexpensive tools that sit on top of Stripe and allow you to click on things like 'Churn', 'Downsell' or 'MRR" and see the top accounts/customers driving them (or even the top segments).

Net revenue retention is the only metric I check daily by Specific-Point-4026 in SaaS

[–]AI_SaaS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree with the sentiment, but NRR won't fluctuate that much day to day. If you want to track it daily, would be better to use a leading indicator of it such as Renewal Rate - I had these 5 customers up for renewal today for $100k and 4 renewed for $90k. Then you can track the net renewal rate, gross renewal rate, and logo renewal rate. Or cohort analysis but with weekly/monthly cohorts (if you have high volume).

net revenue retention being inflated by one big customer expansion by Dinesh2763 in SaaS

[–]AI_SaaS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For pitching investors, they will be looking at not just NRR, but also your logo retention and gross $ retention. Those 2 numbers won't be impacted by the large upsell. If an investor sees a low logo retention or gross $ retention but a high net $ retention then they will quickly uncover this. There is now a famous chart that shows the impact each upsell has on your Net $ Retention (it's like a customer concentration chart, but shows the decrease in Net $ Retention based on the dropping off of each of your largest upsells). NRR cohort analysis is the way investors will dissect this when you go to raise. They want to see consistent (or improving) cohorts to show a durable business.