Author

Glenn Harwood

Engineer and founder at AE Labs. Builds FunnelKeeper — the money layer that joins ad spend to revenue so teams can see whether the spend paid back.

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Growth

What Is Commercial Pipeline? A SaaS Leader's Guide to Full-Funnel Revenue Visibility

Learn what commercial pipeline means for SaaS, why attribution is broken, and how full-funnel dashboards can cut CAC by up to 40% for lean growth teams.

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Growth

Performance Analytics: Why Most SaaS Companies Measure the Wrong Things

Discover why conventional performance analytics fails SaaS companies, from AI search blind spots to funnel-stage gaps, and how to build a measurement foundation that drives real growth.

Attribution

Did your Meta ads actually pay back? (and how to know for sure)

Ads Manager shows ROAS, but did the spend actually pay back? Here's how to join Meta ad spend to revenue and answer the only question that matters.

Attribution

ROAS meaning vs payback period: which one actually tells you if your ads worked

ROAS meaning is attributed revenue over ad spend. It lies for subscriptions. Payback period is the honest metric. How each works, when to use them, and how to compute payback.

Attribution

Why your GA4 numbers don't match your ad spend (and how to join them)

GA4 says 1,200 conversions, Ads Manager says 847. Here's why they differ and how to join GA4 traffic, ad spend, and revenue into one honest number.

Growth

How to get your first 1,000 users for a vibe-coded app

You shipped the vibe-coded app. Now: zero users. Here's how to get your first 1,000 — communities, content, and the one number that decides when to run ads.

Growth

How to monetize a vibe-coded app: the models that actually work

You vibe-coded the app in a weekend. Now: how does it become money? Five monetization models that work for small apps, and how to pick the one that fits what you actually built.

Growth

Paid ads for a vibe-coded app: did the spend pay back?

Paid ads look like the fast lane for a vibe-coded app. Often they're a way to burn money. Here's how to run them so the spend actually pays back.