Today, we're going to walk through building a metric map. A metric map brings all your important metrics into one place, the canvas. Where traditionally your metrics might live across multiple dashboards and reports, a metric map condenses these into a single consolidated view that's easy to navigate and extract insights from. A metric map can take many forms. You could build out a metric tree to understand the metrics which influence your North Star. You could map out a process or even create a dashboard. Today, we'll walk through the example of metric tree, but we have lots of examples of different types of metric maps in our gallery. For example, this cash flow map can help finance teams visualize monthly cash flow data, or this simple onboarding funnel maps a customer's onboarding journey into an app or software, combining metrics with visual screenshots. However you choose to build it, a metric map will help you create clarity, add context to your metrics by enriching with media and notes, and show causality to identify what is driving the change. So creating a metric map, very straightforward. There's six simple steps, planning, data validation, build, embed, monitor, and iterate. Let's jump right in. So how do we start our metric map? We simply start by mapping out each metric you want to include, and we can do this with sticky notes. In our metric tree example, we'll begin at the end, noting down our NorthStar metric and breaking it down into its components, which includes initial deals, expansion, contraction, and churn. We can then break this down again into levers and keep breaking it down to make it as granular as you like. The key point is to ensure the bottom metrics are the ones you can directly influence. When creating any metric map, if it's getting too complex, ask yourself, does this extra detail actually help understand or impact business outcomes? We could also tag other teams now to validate the metrics we're using before we start building. The next step is to validate your data. First, you want to define each metric clearly. What it measures, how to calculate it, and any business rules. We can use a structure like this to help plan out each metric. This would be another good time to collaborate and validate these definitions with other teams. You can then validate your data by bringing in raw datasets, checking for any oddities, and maybe even adding in any monthly screenshots. You could also validate against another system while your current single source of truth exists. Another decision you should consider is whether to query directly from the database or build or use account catalog. Here, we're using account catalog. Using a catalogue is great for creating consistent metric definitions, standardized calculations, and makes your data accessible and reusable for other stakeholders and use cases. To build the metric cards, you can get creative with your own ideas, or you can use our templates, which can be found here. Or you could have a look at our gallery for some examples. Once we've put all our planning into action, here's a final example of how a metric tree could look. This is a simple yet effective way to map out which metrics influence our North Star metric, ARR. Finally, we want the last three steps, embed, monitor, and iterate. To embed your metric tree, we want to bring it to regular meetings and discussions. By building with a catalog, users can explore cells without impacting the overall canvas. For example, we could delve here into initial deals. We could add geography as a view, change it to a line, and here we can see the US and the UK has dropped. Let's follow this up. We could say this is a canvas, or we could navigate back to the original canvas and nothing has changed. You could also use present to help split each frame into its own mini report to make it convenient to present your metric map to stakeholders. The next step is to monitor. You could set up alerts against cells or frames to track changes live via email or Slack. To do this, go into alerts, find your frame or cell, subscribe users and connect to Slack, and then set an alert schedule. The last step is to iterate. Keep your canvas live and evolving. It doesn't have to be perfect first time. You can chop and change as required. Check out more metric map examples in counts gallery to see all the possibilities.