The Business Triage Dashboard

The 7-Minute Triage Process to Know Which Metrics Need Your Attention Today

Stop wasting 45 minutes each morning trying to figure out if your key metric drop is normal.

The Business Triage Dashboard compares today’s performance to 8 weeks of the same day-of-week and instantly shows you what’s healthy, what to monitor, and what’s urgent. One glance tells you if you’ve got a real problem or just a normal Wednesday.

What It Does

Every morning, you face the same dilemma: revenue is down 12%, but is that actually a problem? Most operators waste 45+ minutes checking ads, emails, and analytics, only to discover it’s just normal variance for that day of the week.

The Business Triage Dashboard solves this by comparing yesterday’s metrics against 8 weeks of the same day-of-week, using statistical thresholds to instantly tell you if a fluctuation is:

• Healthy — normal variance, no action needed
• Monitor — worth keeping an eye on
• Urgent — something needs your attention today

Instead of second-guessing every drop, you get a definitive answer in a 60-second scan.

Features

• Day-of-week seasonality built in
• 8 weeks of statistical baselines
• Daily updates in under 7 minutes
• Clear status indicators: healthy, monitor, urgent
• Checklist for investigating urgent metrics

Why Day-of-Week Matters

Monday revenue is not the same as Friday revenue. If you compare today against a 30-day average, you will spend every Monday thinking you have a problem and every Friday thinking you are on a tear — when in reality, you are just seeing normal weekly seasonality.

The Business Triage Dashboard fixes this by comparing Mondays against Mondays, Fridays against Fridays, and so on. The baselines adjust automatically, so your alerts are calibrated to what is actually normal for that specific day.

This is the same statistical approach Crux uses in its health monitoring dashboards, adapted into a free Google Sheets template any brand can use without a data warehouse.