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What it is.
CJ Gustafson writes Mostly Metrics for 75,000 readers, and the audience skews finance. That's the reason to read it: these are the definitions your CFO is using.
Issues run several times a week and cover metric definitions, public company breakdowns, and the awkward operational stuff like comp transparency and auditing an AI bill.
It's free to read and the archive is open, so you can look up a definition before a board meeting.
What you get.
- Metric definitions with the math worked through
- Public company and S-1 breakdowns, useful as benchmarks
- Writing on AI cost, which is now a line item marketing gets asked about
- Operational pieces on comp, hiring, and managing upward
- Free access with an open archive
Editions we'd start with.
How to Audit Your AI Bill for Savings ↗
July 2026. The piece to read before someone asks what your AI spend is buying.
How to Tell a Demanding Founder They're Wrong ↗
The management writing, and better than most of what's published on the subject.
Domo? The Post Operating SPAC? ↗
A public company teardown. Read one to see how he handles numbers.
Cumberland Farms IPO: S1 Breakdown ↗
An S-1 walked through in detail, which is a free lesson in unit economics.
The Tax Mechanic That Showed the Whole Company My Comp ↗
Compensation transparency handled as an operating problem.