// What Northwind does differently
One definition, one owner, one alert when it breaks.
Most tools hand you a wall of charts and call it insight. Northwind is built around three convictions about how a metric should behave.
Metrics with owners
Define each metric once in version-controlled SQL and review it like code. When someone asks "which revenue?" there is exactly one answer, and a name sits next to it. No more three spreadsheets that disagree.
So "net revenue" means the same number in the board deck and the sales dashboard.
It tells you first
Northwind watches every metric on a schedule you set. When ARR dips or activation spikes, the owner gets the alert, the segment that moved, and the likely driver, before the Monday standup, not after the quarter closes.
Routed to Slack, email, or PagerDuty with a link straight to the cohort.
Warehouse to answer
Connect Snowflake, BigQuery, or Postgres. Model once, then ship the exact same trusted number to a Slack digest, a REST API, or an embedded panel in your own product. No ticket, no re-deriving the logic downstream.
Ships to the API and embeds without a BI backlog in the way.