How to run a monthly business review on Starch

A monthly business review is the meeting — or the document that spawns the meeting — where you take stock of what actually happened last month: revenue, burn, hiring, pipeline, key wins, open risks. Most operators run some version of it. The problem is it takes longer to prepare than to run. Someone pulls numbers from Stripe, someone else checks the bank, a third person digs up last month's deck to remember what you said you'd do, and by the time everything is in one place the meeting is already late.

What this looks like in practice varies. A SaaS founder's MBR centers on MRR, churn, and runway. A services business cares more about utilization and pipeline coverage. A CPG operator is watching inventory turns and channel margins. The underlying job — gather the data, make sense of it, decide what to do next — is the same across all of them.

On Starch, the output you walk into that meeting with is a current dashboard showing real burn rate and runway from your live bank and revenue data, a drafted narrative with your top metrics and month-over-month context, and a clean record of what was decided last time and what's still open. No exports, no copy-paste, no rebuilding the same slide from scratch. You describe the review format you want — what numbers matter, how you want them framed, where action items should land — and that structure is waiting for you at the start of every month.