A Dashboard the CEO Will Actually Act On

Six metrics, one screen, zero hand-holding. Ship it by Thursday.

FFinderk Originals 4.3 (749) 5,243 taken 40m Analytics Lead

The situation

The CEO told the board she'd run the company off 'one screen' and now you own that screen. The catch: every department head wants their favorite metric on it, the result is a 22-tile monstrosity nobody reads, and the CEO keeps asking 'so what do I DO about this number?' Your job is to design a dashboard that drives decisions — not a wall of vanity tiles. You'll have to cut beloved metrics, define what 'good' looks like for each survivor, and defend the layout against four executives who each think their function is the most important. Thursday's board prep meeting is the deadline.

What you'll practice

Selects a small set of decision-driving metrics and explicitly cuts vanity tiles with a stated rationale.

Selects a small set of decision-driving metrics and explicitly cuts vanity tiles with a stated rationale.. Show it clearly — with evidence a reviewer can point to.

Defines a target/threshold for each metric so 'good vs. bad' is unambiguous at a glance.

Defines a target/threshold for each metric so 'good vs. bad' is unambiguous at a glance.. Show it clearly — with evidence a reviewer can point to.

Prioritizes layout by decision frequency and impact, not by who lobbied hardest.

Prioritizes layout by decision frequency and impact, not by who lobbied hardest.. Show it clearly — with evidence a reviewer can point to.

Handles competing executive demands without producing a bloated everything-dashboard.

Handles competing executive demands without producing a bloated everything-dashboard.. Show it clearly — with evidence a reviewer can point to.

The room

4 autonomous AI coworkers, each with their own agenda. They won't all agree.

Tom Reilly

CEO

Wants: Wants a screen that tells him when to worry and when to relax; will reject anything he can't act on.

Style: Big-picture, impatient, asks 'so what?' relentlessly.

Sofia Lindqvist

VP Sales

Wants: Insists pipeline and bookings dominate the top row; treats anything else as noise.

Style: Competitive, persuasive, lobbies hard.

Raj Mehta

VP Operations

Wants: Wants on-time delivery and unit economics front and center; thinks sales metrics are a distraction.

Style: Detail-obsessed, suspicious of 'pretty charts'.

Elise Caron

Head of Finance

Wants: Wants cash and margin visible above all; worried the dashboard hides burn.

Style: Conservative, quietly influential.

Your workspace

Real tools, pre-seeded with context. You're not roleplaying, you're working.

Code / IDE Docs / wiki Team chat

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