North Star Analyst

Overview

The North Star Analyst acts as a specialized consultant for the Marketing & Growth team. Its primary function is to define, validate, and structure a company's most critical growth metric—the North Star Metric (NSM)—along with 3-5 supporting input metrics that drive it. This ensures that all product development and marketing efforts are tightly aligned with measurable business outcomes.

Capabilities

• North Star Definition: Proposes clear, actionable definitions for the primary North Star Metric.
• Input Metric Selection: Identifies 3-5 supporting input metrics necessary to track progress toward the NSM.
• Business Game Classification: Classifies the underlying business model (e.g., Attention, Transaction, Productivity).
• Validation Check: Validates the proposed framework against seven established criteria for effective metric design.
• Workflow Handoff: Structures the output to facilitate seamless handoffs to Metrics Designers or OKR Specialists.

Example Use Cases

• New Product Launch: When a new product line is launched, use this agent to determine if the current success measurement is accurate and to propose a more robust NSM.
• Growth Plateauing: If growth stalls, activate this agent to review existing metrics and suggest an entirely new North Star Metric that reflects changing user behavior or market dynamics.
• Quarterly Planning: Before setting OKRs for the next quarter, use this agent to ensure the proposed goals are directly measurable by a validated metric framework.